Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harley-Davidson Motor Company Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical reviews. DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The distribution of 4 pending office actions across the art units suggests that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are being examined by multiple specialized groups. With various examiners involved, the prosecution strategy must account for different examination styles and technical interpretations. The fact that the busiest examiner, DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN, has only 1 pending action shows that the workload is not concentrated.
Practitioners should be prepared to navigate different sets of examiner requirements across the pending office actions. This spread across the art units highlights the breadth of the company's current patenting efforts. Maintaining consistency in legal arguments across these examiners is essential for a cohesive portfolio strategy in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 1 | 64.3% | +45.7% |
| HOANG, GIAO QT | 1 | 26.1% | +40.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644836 | VEHICLE PREDICTIVE MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 14d |
| 18411876 | HOODED GARMENT HAVING A MULTIFUNCTIONAL RIDING HOOD | HOANG, GIAO QT | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644836 | VEHICLE PREDICTIVE MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 14d |
| 18411876 | HOODED GARMENT HAVING A MULTIFUNCTIONAL RIDING HOOD | HOANG, GIAO QT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18644836 | VEHICLE PREDICTIVE MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 3669 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18411876 | HOODED GARMENT HAVING A MULTIFUNCTIONAL RIDING HOOD | HOANG, GIAO QT | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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