Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Garmin International Inc. has 8 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, showing a concentration of the company's current USPTO activity in a few specialized sections. The prosecution is handled by 8 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending action is currently assigned to a different individual.
The busiest examiner, SAKAMOTO, COLIN T, has only 1 pending office action, which reflects the broader trend of one examiner per action across the 8 pending matters. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that Garmin cannot leverage a single examiner's history to predict the outcomes of multiple pending cases. Each of the 8 distinct examiners will bring a unique perspective to the 8 pending office actions.
With 4 distinct art units involved, the portfolio is spread across multiple technical domains within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The fact that the busiest examiner, SAKAMOTO, COLIN T, holds only 1 pending action emphasizes the decentralized nature of the company's current prosecution. This requires the legal team to manage 8 separate examiner relationships simultaneously to resolve the 8 pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| 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 | 66.4% | +25.4% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 1 | 51.8% | +35.6% |
| LIM, STEVEN | 1 | 68.9% | +12.6% |
| DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | 1 | 84.2% | +13.3% |
| CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 1 | 25.0% | +0.0% |
| TOTH, KAREN E | 1 | 46.4% | +25.8% |
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.2% | +36.7% |
| MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 1 | 53.7% | +75.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18316404 | EQUINE TAIL SENSOR | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| 18148143 | HEART RATE MONITOR | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18918231 | PRESSURE COMPENSATION FOR WRIST-BASED PULSE SPECTROMETRY | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — | §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 |
| 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 |
| 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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