Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Garmin International Inc. currently manages 9 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct art units, indicating a diverse technical focus within the sector. The portfolio is handled by 9 distinct examiners, creating a direct ratio between the number of pending actions and assigned examiners. This lack of concentration suggests that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to a wide variety of individual examiner preferences rather than a centralized group.
Among the active personnel, SAKAMOTO, COLIN T is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, which matches the workload of every other examiner involved. Because the 9 pending actions are spread across 7 distinct art units, the company faces a fragmented regulatory landscape. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, as no single examiner or unit dominates the current docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
| GAGNON, GRANT A | 1 | 82.9% | +7.7% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.1% | +39.8% |
| HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 1 | 51.8% | +35.6% |
| LIM, STEVEN | 1 | 68.9% | +12.6% |
| CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 1 | 40.0% | +0.0% |
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.5% | +16.1% |
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.7% | +35.8% |
| MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 1 | 53.7% | +75.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19035086 | OPTICAL SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LASER RANGEFINDER | GAGNON, GRANT A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18637928 | USE OF FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FOR OPTICAL CARDIAC SIGNALS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 4d overdue |
| 18747768 | SNORE DETECTION SYSTEM | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 22d |
| 19221127 | WRIST-WORN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH OPTICAL CARDIAC MONITOR | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| 18918231 | PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR WRIST-BASED PULSE SPECTROMETRY | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18882173 | RANGING BEACON SYSTEM | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18637928 | USE OF FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FOR OPTICAL CARDIAC SIGNALS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 4d overdue |
| 18800652 | TOUCHSCREEN DIVE COMPUTER | LIM, STEVEN | 7d |
| 19221127 | WRIST-WORN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH OPTICAL CARDIAC MONITOR | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| 18918231 | PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR WRIST-BASED PULSE SPECTROMETRY | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18882173 | RANGING BEACON SYSTEM | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | — |
| 18316404 | EQUINE TAIL SENSOR | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| 18148143 | HEART RATE MONITOR | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19221127 | WRIST-WORN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH OPTICAL CARDIAC MONITOR | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19035086 | OPTICAL SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LASER RANGEFINDER | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18918231 | PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR WRIST-BASED PULSE SPECTROMETRY | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18882173 | RANGING BEACON SYSTEM | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18800652 | TOUCHSCREEN DIVE COMPUTER | LIM, STEVEN | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18747768 | SNORE DETECTION SYSTEM | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18637928 | USE OF FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FOR OPTICAL CARDIAC SIGNALS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18316404 | EQUINE TAIL SENSOR | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 18148143 | HEART RATE MONITOR | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGarmin International Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 9 examiners.
Colin T Sakamoto has the most, with 1 of Garmin International Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
