Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harting Electronics GmbH has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The record spans 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. CAPUTO, LISA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The distribution indicates that the pending work is spread across several examination channels rather than concentrated with one reviewer. That structure may require matter-specific claim analysis and coordination across art units, particularly where related electrical or optical concepts appear in more than one application.
No examiner accounts for more than the identified 1 pending matter in the busiest-examiner field. Counsel should therefore avoid assuming that a successful argument in one file will transfer without adjustment. Consistent technical definitions and carefully aligned amendment positions can still reduce avoidable divergence across the matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAPUTO, LISA M | 1 | 42.4% | +5.4% |
| DINH, PHUONG K | 1 | 87.3% | +8.9% |
| PAGHADAL, PARESH H | 1 | 60.1% | +21.5% |
| HARCUM, MARCUS E | 1 | 89.4% | +5.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271644 | SINGLE-PAIR ETHERNET SWITCHING APPARATUS | HARCUM, MARCUS E | 27d |
| 18712413 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTOR WITH DETECTIBLE SHAPED ELEMENT | DINH, PHUONG K | — |
| 18689374 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD UNIT AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTION ELEMENT | PAGHADAL, PARESH H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689374 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD UNIT AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTION ELEMENT | PAGHADAL, PARESH H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 2 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18837555 | CONNECTOR SYSTEM FOR OPTICAL FIBRES AND ASSEMBLY DEVICE | CAPUTO, LISA M | 2874 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18712413 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTOR WITH DETECTIBLE SHAPED ELEMENT | DINH, PHUONG K | 2831 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18689374 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD UNIT AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTION ELEMENT | PAGHADAL, PARESH H | 2847 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18271644 | SINGLE-PAIR ETHERNET SWITCHING APPARATUS | HARCUM, MARCUS E | 2831 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHarting Electronics GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Lisa M Caputo has the most, with 1 of Harting Electronics GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
