Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (5)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
§102 only1 (9%)

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
5
Communications
45% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
36% 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
HUNTER, MISHAWN N 1 78.0% +14.6%
RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH 1 83.3% +25.0%
SOOD, ANSHUL 1 82.8% +12.4%
HOANG, JOHNNY H 1 88.9% +12.1%
MOONEY, JAMES K 1 75.7% +22.2%
ZHU, QIN 1 87.7% +2.6%
SAWYER, STEVEN T 1 72.3% +30.6%
PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G 1 82.9% +3.3%
SYED, NABIL H 1 60.3% +30.3%
AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 1 77.6% +11.3%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18669943 SEAMLESS REVERBERATION TRANSITION IN VIRTUAL VENUES ZHU, QIN 44d overdue
18967453 DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH 24d overdue
18819712 Chip Architecture HOANG, JOHNNY H 23d overdue
18965848 DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM SOOD, ANSHUL 11d overdue
18591412 VEHICLE BODY PANELS FOR SPEAKERS, SPEAKER ASSEMBLIES WITH VEHICLE BODY PANELS, AND INSTALLATION METHODS THEREFORE PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G 39d

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
18590605 ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ACCESS SYSTEM SYED, NABIL H 73d overdue
18967453 DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH 24d overdue
18819712 Chip Architecture HOANG, JOHNNY H 23d overdue
18965848 DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM SOOD, ANSHUL 11d overdue
18635534 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THEREOF SAWYER, STEVEN T 13d
19030755 CAMERA SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CAMERA SYSTEM, AND IMAGE EVALUATION UNIT COMPRISING A CAMERA SYSTEM HUNTER, MISHAWN N 23d
18750021 AUDIO PROCESSING MODULE FOR EXTENDING AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO CAPABILITIES MOONEY, JAMES K 29d
18550283 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING SOUND OF VEHICLE GEAR-SHIFTING AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2691 2
2484 1
3666 1
3667 1
3747 1
2695 1
2847 1
2686 1
2693 1
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19030755 CAMERA SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CAMERA SYSTEM, AND IMAGE EVALUATION UNIT COMPRISING A CAMERA SYSTEM HUNTER, MISHAWN N 2484 §102 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jan 17, 2025
18967453 DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2024
18965848 DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM SOOD, ANSHUL 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2024
18819712 Chip Architecture HOANG, JOHNNY H 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2024
18750021 AUDIO PROCESSING MODULE FOR EXTENDING AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO CAPABILITIES MOONEY, JAMES K 2695 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18669943 SEAMLESS REVERBERATION TRANSITION IN VIRTUAL VENUES ZHU, QIN 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 21, 2024
18635534 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THEREOF SAWYER, STEVEN T 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18591412 VEHICLE BODY PANELS FOR SPEAKERS, SPEAKER ASSEMBLIES WITH VEHICLE BODY PANELS, AND INSTALLATION METHODS THEREFORE PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18590605 ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ACCESS SYSTEM SYED, NABIL H 2686 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18550283 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING SOUND OF VEHICLE GEAR-SHIFTING AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Sep 12, 2023
17451629 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN EYE MOVEMENT CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Oct 20, 2021

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