Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Garmin International Inc.

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

3
Hard (33%)
6
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (11%)
§103 only6 (67%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
3
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
56% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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 69.0% +14.6%
BLANCHA, JONATHAN M 1 62.3% +10.2%
DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD 1 83.7% +14.1%
CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE 1 25.0% +0.0%
TOTH, KAREN E 1 46.7% +25.4%
DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 1 74.9% +15.2%
LI, YONGHONG 1 76.4% +20.8%
MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 1 51.4% +78.4%

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18747768 SNORE DETECTION SYSTEM CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE 22d
18766330 WATCH HOUSING WITH SLOT ANTENNA CONFIGURATION IN LOWER PLANE DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD
18731841 DETERMINATION OF A USER’S GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL USING PULSE SPECTROSCOPY TOTH, KAREN E

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
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
18905617 HEADS-UP DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH IMAGE ADJUSTMENT BLANCHA, JONATHAN M
18766330 WATCH HOUSING WITH SLOT ANTENNA CONFIGURATION IN LOWER PLANE DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD
18731841 DETERMINATION OF A USER’S GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL USING PULSE SPECTROSCOPY TOTH, KAREN E
18404988 QUAD POLARIZED ELECTRONICALLY STEERED WEATHER RADAR LI, YONGHONG
18148143 HEART RATE MONITOR MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2688 2
3791 2
2623 1
3792 1
3648 1
3794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19200143 TOPSIDE BUOY SYSTEM LIM, STEVEN 2688 §103Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending May 06, 2025
18905617 HEADS-UP DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH IMAGE ADJUSTMENT BLANCHA, JONATHAN M 2623 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 03, 2024
18800652 TOUCHSCREEN DIVE COMPUTER LIM, STEVEN 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18766330 WATCH HOUSING WITH SLOT ANTENNA CONFIGURATION IN LOWER PLANE DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 2024
18747768 SNORE DETECTION SYSTEM CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE 3792 §103§112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 19, 2024
18731841 DETERMINATION OF A USER’S GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL USING PULSE SPECTROSCOPY TOTH, KAREN E 3791 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 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
18404988 QUAD POLARIZED ELECTRONICALLY STEERED WEATHER RADAR LI, YONGHONG 3648 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 05, 2024
18148143 HEART RATE MONITOR MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 3794 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 29, 2022

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