Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Harley-Davidson Motor Company Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (5)

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOYCE, WILLIAM C 1 69.4% +16.2%
DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN 1 61.5% +59.4%
SAEED, AHMED M 1 80.8% +12.7%
BROWN, DREW J 1 89.7% +5.5%
STABLEY, MICHAEL R 1 85.7% +12.7%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18559619 AN INTEGRATED THREE POSITION ROCKER SWITCH SAEED, AHMED M 13d
18559631 SWITCH MODULE FOR VEHICLE AND VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SWITCH MODULE BROWN, DREW J 21d
18158611 FAIRING ASSEMBLY STABLEY, MICHAEL R 26d

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
18559619 AN INTEGRATED THREE POSITION ROCKER SWITCH SAEED, AHMED M 13d
18644836 VEHICLE PREDICTIVE MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN 14d
19015365 REVERSE DRIVE ASSEMBLY FOR MOTORIZED VEHICLE JOYCE, WILLIAM C 20d
18158611 FAIRING ASSEMBLY STABLEY, MICHAEL R 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3618 1
3669 1
2831 1
3617 1
3611 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19015365 REVERSE DRIVE ASSEMBLY FOR MOTORIZED VEHICLE JOYCE, WILLIAM C 3618 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jan 09, 2025
18644836 VEHICLE PREDICTIVE MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN 3669 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18559619 AN INTEGRATED THREE POSITION ROCKER SWITCH SAEED, AHMED M 2831 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Nov 08, 2023
18559631 SWITCH MODULE FOR VEHICLE AND VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SWITCH MODULE BROWN, DREW J 3617 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 08, 2023
18158611 FAIRING ASSEMBLY STABLEY, MICHAEL R 3611 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 24, 2023

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