Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. The workload is distributed evenly across 5 distinct examiners and a matching number of art units. This one-to-one ratio between the actions and the examiners suggests a highly fragmented prosecution landscape for the company's current pending matters. The variety of technical classifications indicates that the company's communications technologies are being evaluated across many different specialized groups.
Michael T Rozanski is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that no single examiner or art unit holds a concentrated influence over the company's current applications. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate the different sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards simultaneously. This requires a highly flexible strategy to ensure that each of the pending matters is addressed according to its specific technical classification. Michael T Rozanski is just one of the individuals whose specific feedback must be managed, as he handles only 1 pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 1 | 69.2% | +28.8% |
| RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 1 | 68.0% | +50.0% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.3% | +45.8% |
| MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 1 | 69.8% | +22.4% |
| UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL | 1 | 51.6% | +22.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPIRATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | — |
| 18951426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE AND AUDIO SYSTEM INTEGRATION | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18912759 | SYSTEM FOR DEBUGGING AUDIO AMPLIFIER OF A VEHICLE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18883468 | SPEAKER ENCLOSURE, SPEAKER ASSEMBLY, AND SEAT ASSEMBLY | MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18776112 | VEHICLE MIRROR POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR INCREASED VISIBILITY | UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL | 34d |
| 18977607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPIRATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | — |
| 18951426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE AND AUDIO SYSTEM INTEGRATION | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18912759 | SYSTEM FOR DEBUGGING AUDIO AMPLIFIER OF A VEHICLE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18883468 | SPEAKER ENCLOSURE, SPEAKER ASSEMBLY, AND SEAT ASSEMBLY | MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPIRATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18951426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE AND AUDIO SYSTEM INTEGRATION | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 2694 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18912759 | SYSTEM FOR DEBUGGING AUDIO AMPLIFIER OF A VEHICLE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18883468 | SPEAKER ENCLOSURE, SPEAKER ASSEMBLY, AND SEAT ASSEMBLY | MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 3993 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18776112 | VEHICLE MIRROR POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR INCREASED VISIBILITY | UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
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