Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Doosan Bobcat North America Inc.

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Doosan Bobcat North America Inc. has 11 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company interacts with 11 distinct examiners, meaning the number of pending actions is equal to the number of individuals assigned. These matters are spread across 5 distinct art units, reflecting the varied technical scope of their mechanical and transportation systems.

HEFLIN, HARRISON JAMES RIEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 pending action. Because the busiest examiner only manages 1 action, the prosecution load is perfectly distributed across the distinct examiners. This lack of concentration across the 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's legal strategy must account for diverse examiner preferences and art unit specificities. The 11 pending office actions represent the current volume of the portfolio's examination phase. Practitioners should be prepared for different sets of examiner feedback across these 5 distinct art units.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

4
Hard (36%)
7
Medium (64%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (36%)
§102 only2 (18%)
Double-patenting + other1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
1
Communications
9% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
27% of docket
6
Business / Other
55% 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
HEFLIN, HARRISON JAMES RIEL 1 72.3% +14.4%
SMITH, JORDAN T 1 66.3% +10.2%
FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN 1 91.4% +7.3%
MCCLAIN, GERALD 1 74.3% +14.5%
BEMKO, TARAS P 1 84.4% +19.3%
TRAC, JONATHAN KHANH 1 — —
JEBARI, MOHAMMED 1 55.7% +15.3%
TSUI, ALFRED H 1 32.7% +32.8%
HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J 1 49.5% +43.8%
ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 1 57.7% +38.5%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19072431 WORK IMPLEMENT FORCE CONTROL FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN —
18935518 OPERATOR PLATFORM SUSPENSION WITH LOWER REACTION BUMPER BEMKO, TARAS P —

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19185696 IMMOBILIZATION OF ELECTROHYDRAULIC POWER MACHINE SMITH, JORDAN T —
18914232 INTERCHANGEABLE ATTACHMENT FOR COMPACT LOADER TRAC, JONATHAN KHANH —
18602713 AUTONOMOUS SENSOR KIT FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF POWER MACHINES TSUI, ALFRED H —
18506743 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION IN POWER MACHINES HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J —

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18887769 POWER AND MACHINE DISPLAY JEBARI, MOHAMMED 26d overdue
17868186 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBSTACLE DETECTION FOR A POWER MACHINE ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 3d overdue
19197564 CONTROL OF MULTIPLE POWER MACHINES HEFLIN, HARRISON JAMES RIEL —
19185696 IMMOBILIZATION OF ELECTROHYDRAULIC POWER MACHINE SMITH, JORDAN T —
18986653 CABLESS LOADER LIFT ARM MCCLAIN, GERALD —
18935518 OPERATOR PLATFORM SUSPENSION WITH LOWER REACTION BUMPER BEMKO, TARAS P —
18602713 AUTONOMOUS SENSOR KIT FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF POWER MACHINES TSUI, ALFRED H —
18506743 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION IN POWER MACHINES HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3661 1
2482 1
3671 1
3667 1
2686 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19197564 CONTROL OF MULTIPLE POWER MACHINES HEFLIN, HARRISON JAMES RIEL — §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 02, 2025
19185696 IMMOBILIZATION OF ELECTROHYDRAULIC POWER MACHINE SMITH, JORDAN T — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2025
19072431 WORK IMPLEMENT FORCE CONTROL FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN 3661 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2025
18986653 CABLESS LOADER LIFT ARM MCCLAIN, GERALD — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 18, 2024
18935518 OPERATOR PLATFORM SUSPENSION WITH LOWER REACTION BUMPER BEMKO, TARAS P — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 02, 2024
18914232 INTERCHANGEABLE ATTACHMENT FOR COMPACT LOADER TRAC, JONATHAN KHANH — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 13, 2024
18887769 POWER AND MACHINE DISPLAY JEBARI, MOHAMMED 2482 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Sep 17, 2024
18602713 AUTONOMOUS SENSOR KIT FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF POWER MACHINES TSUI, ALFRED H 3671 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2024
18506743 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION IN POWER MACHINES HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 10, 2023
17868186 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBSTACLE DETECTION FOR A POWER MACHINE ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 3667 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2022
17706074 VISUAL INDICATION SYSTEM FOR POWER MACHINES YANG, JAMES J 2686 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 28, 2022

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