Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Garmin International Inc.

9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
7
Medium (78%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
3
Communications
33% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
44% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIM, STEVEN 2 68.1% +11.8%
HO, ANH N 1 81.1% +14.4%
CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE 1 0.0% +0.0%
NGUYEN, SEAN H 1 86.2% +4.8%
DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 1 75.1% +14.6%
WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 1 84.1% +11.3%
LI, YONGHONG 1 76.7% +22.3%
NEHCHIRI, KOOROSH 1 43.0% +30.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18585207 MOTORCYCLE RADAR SYSTEM WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 67d overdue
18738883 AVIATION HEADSET NGUYEN, SEAN H 52d overdue
18766313 WATCH WITH BIPLANAR SLOT ANTENNA CONFIGURATION HO, ANH N 50d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18747768 SNORE DETECTION SYSTEM CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE 22d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18448266 CLUSTER ICON VALIDATION NEHCHIRI, KOOROSH 78d overdue
18585207 MOTORCYCLE RADAR SYSTEM WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 67d overdue
18766313 WATCH WITH BIPLANAR SLOT ANTENNA CONFIGURATION HO, ANH N 50d overdue
19200143 TOPSIDE BUOY SYSTEM LIM, STEVEN 31d overdue
18637928 USE OF FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FOR OPTICAL CARDIAC SIGNALS DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 4d overdue
18800652 TOUCHSCREEN DIVE COMPUTER LIM, STEVEN 7d
18404988 QUAD POLARIZED ELECTRONICALLY STEERED WEATHER RADAR LI, YONGHONG

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2688 2
3648 2
2845 1
3792 1
2691 1
3791 1
2174 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19200143 TOPSIDE BUOY SYSTEM LIM, STEVEN 2688 Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending May 06, 2025
18800652 TOUCHSCREEN DIVE COMPUTER LIM, STEVEN 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18766313 WATCH WITH BIPLANAR SLOT ANTENNA CONFIGURATION HO, ANH N 2845 §112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2024
18747768 SNORE DETECTION SYSTEM CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE 3792 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jun 19, 2024
18738883 AVIATION HEADSET NGUYEN, SEAN H 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2024
18637928 USE OF FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FOR OPTICAL CARDIAC SIGNALS DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18585207 MOTORCYCLE RADAR SYSTEM WAHEED, NAZRA NUR 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18404988 QUAD POLARIZED ELECTRONICALLY STEERED WEATHER RADAR LI, YONGHONG 3648 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 05, 2024
18448266 CLUSTER ICON VALIDATION NEHCHIRI, KOOROSH 2174 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023

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