Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Graco Minnesota Inc.

11 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

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%)
8
Medium (73%)
3
Easy (27%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (45%)
§102 only3 (27%)
§112 only3 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
18% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
64% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JARIWALA, CHIRAG 2 61.5% +26.8%
THOMAS, BINU 2 72.5% +26.4%
ELNAKIB, AHMED 1 78.9% +8.5%
COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT 1 57.1% +39.0%
PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 1 73.0% +24.9%
LIEUWEN, CODY J 1 59.5% +46.4%
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 1 63.0% +21.4%
MARTIN, LAURA E 1 73.0% +19.5%
BOECKMANN, JASON J 1 48.9% +28.9%

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17782412 ACTIVE SPRAY ADJUSTMENT FOR AN AUTOMATED MOBILE SPRAYER THOMAS, BINU 44d overdue
18202070 ALIGNMENT TOOL FOR A SPRAY GUN MARTIN, LAURA E 15d overdue
18564923 SOLVENT DOSING FOR A SPRAY APPLICATOR LIEUWEN, CODY J 9d overdue
18622197 SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING ABRASIVE MATERIAL PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 1d overdue
18025288 FAN AIR LEVER FOR A SPRAY GUN BOECKMANN, JASON J 12d
18289471 MIXER, AIR CAP, AND MIX CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A PLURAL COMPONENT SPRAYER KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 15d
17332209 TRANSFER PUMP ASSEMBLY JARIWALA, CHIRAG 34d
18839641 PUMP MOTOR HANDLE JARIWALA, CHIRAG 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3746 3
3752 3
1717 2
2834 1
3754 1
2855 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18839641 PUMP MOTOR HANDLE JARIWALA, CHIRAG 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Aug 19, 2024
18712040 ELECTRIC MOTOR END CAP HAVING DUST PASSAGE ELNAKIB, AHMED 2834 §112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending May 21, 2024
18622187 ELECTRICALLY OPERATED DISPLACEMENT PUMP CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT 3746 §112 Non-Final OA 85d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18622197 SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING ABRASIVE MATERIAL PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18564923 SOLVENT DOSING FOR A SPRAY APPLICATOR LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18289471 MIXER, AIR CAP, AND MIX CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A PLURAL COMPONENT SPRAYER KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18202070 ALIGNMENT TOOL FOR A SPRAY GUN MARTIN, LAURA E 2855 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
18025288 FAN AIR LEVER FOR A SPRAY GUN BOECKMANN, JASON J 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 08, 2023
17969459 GROUND MARKING BEAD FLOW SENSOR THOMAS, BINU 1717 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17782412 ACTIVE SPRAY ADJUSTMENT FOR AN AUTOMATED MOBILE SPRAYER THOMAS, BINU 1717 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2022
17332209 TRANSFER PUMP ASSEMBLY JARIWALA, CHIRAG 3746 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 27, 2021

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