Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Konami Gaming Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, indicating examiner turnover within a common art-unit setting.
PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The shared art unit supports centralized review of recurring technical or claim issues, while the separate examiners require individualized response handling.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | 1 | 63.8% | +32.2% |
| DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | 1 | 33.3% | +66.7% |
| LARSEN, CARL VICTOR | 1 | 69.7% | +19.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18984436 | GAMING MACHINE AND METHODS OF OPERATING GAMNG MACHINES | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | — |
| 18895280 | GAMING MACHINE, METHOD FOR PROVIDING GAME, AND PROGRAM | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18376704 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR OPERATING GAMING MACHINES TO DISPLAY COMPUTER ANIMATED REEL GAMES | LARSEN, CARL VICTOR | 15d |
| 18984436 | GAMING MACHINE AND METHODS OF OPERATING GAMNG MACHINES | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | — |
| 18895280 | GAMING MACHINE, METHOD FOR PROVIDING GAME, AND PROGRAM | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18984436 | GAMING MACHINE AND METHODS OF OPERATING GAMNG MACHINES | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | 3715 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18895280 | GAMING MACHINE, METHOD FOR PROVIDING GAME, AND PROGRAM | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18376704 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR OPERATING GAMING MACHINES TO DISPLAY COMPUTER ANIMATED REEL GAMES | LARSEN, CARL VICTOR | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKonami Gaming Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Jason Paul Pinheiro has the most, with 1 of Konami Gaming Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
