Examiner Joshua D. Bradley

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2017 (101 months ago).

Examiner Joshua D. Bradley appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 45.1%, they average 2.74 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.74

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 3 years (2015-2017)
Tech Center: 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
Group: 3690 - Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance and Business Cryptography

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 51
Granted Applications: 23
Non-Granted Applications: 28
Avg OA / Grant: 2.74
Last OA Observed: December 2017 (101 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3692 , 3697
Work Groups Seen: 3690 - Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance and Business Cryptography

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	45.1%	2.74
Art Unit	23	31.4%	2.88
Group	163	34.9%	2.69
Tech Center	2,337	48.0%	2.11
USPTO	16,116	54.8%	1.98

Grant Timeline

Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.

Year	Applications	Granted	Grant Rate
No observed data before 2015; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2015	6	1	16.7%
2016	25	10	40.0%
2017	20	12	60.0%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

23 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	78	2.6%	24.4%	71.8%	1.3%
2	59	13.6%	25.4%	61.0%	0.0%
3	37	8.1%	2.7%	89.2%	0.0%
4	28	7.1%	0.0%	92.9%	0.0%
5	10	10.0%	0.0%	90.0%	0.0%
6	8	12.5%	0.0%	87.5%	0.0%
7	3	33.3%	0.0%	66.7%	0.0%
8	2	50.0%	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%
9	1	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

7.7%

2013

18.8%

2014

11.9%

2015

6.6%

2016

10.5%

2017

Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.