Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harmonic Drive SE currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The focused nature of this prosecution means that all current patent office interaction for the company is localized to a single point of contact.
VICTOR L MACARTHUR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current legal efforts are concentrated within a specific technical niche of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This lack of variety in examiners or art units simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio.
The presence of the pending office action assigned to 1 distinct examiner suggests a highly specific or early-stage prosecution phase. Practitioners should focus on the specific tendencies of VICTOR L MACARTHUR, as this individual currently holds the entirety of the company's pending workload. The 1 distinct art unit further narrows the procedural environment the company must navigate.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 1 | 66.3% | +12.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112620 | FLAT GEARING | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112620 | FLAT GEARING | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112620 | FLAT GEARING | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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