Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Brady Worldwide Inc.

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ 1 74.7% +8.8%
FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA 1 69.6% +11.7%
DESAI, ANISH P 1 44.0% +8.5%
DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D 1 44.1% -13.7%
GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 1 67.0% +34.8%
RUDDIE, ELLIOT S 1 65.5% +42.5%
BLADES, JOHN A 1 50.7% +40.0%

Interview Candidates (4)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
16839895 Label Wrapper With Soft-Touch Jaws BLADES, JOHN A 93d overdue
17507931 NOSE CONE VENT DESIGN FOR INHALATION DEVICE RUDDIE, ELLIOT S 59d overdue
18183472 METHOD TO PROVIDE ACCURATE FLUID DELIVERY GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 31d overdue
18790100 Collapsible Core System and Method FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA 75d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1788 2
3654 1
2853 1
3752 1
3785 1
1746 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18790106 RIBBON CARTRIDGE AUTOMATIC CENTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18790100 Collapsible Core System and Method FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA 2853 §102 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18479180 SILCONE TAPE HAVING IMPROVED ADHESIVE PROPERTIES DESAI, ANISH P 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2023
18124282 FLOOR MARKING TAPE DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D 1788 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18183472 METHOD TO PROVIDE ACCURATE FLUID DELIVERY GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
17507931 NOSE CONE VENT DESIGN FOR INHALATION DEVICE RUDDIE, ELLIOT S 3785 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2021
16839895 Label Wrapper With Soft-Touch Jaws BLADES, JOHN A 1746 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2020

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