Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
MIZUNO Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Each matter is assigned to a different examiner, with 8 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. The technical grouping is narrower than the examiner distribution.
KAVANAUGH, JOHN T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use consistent device terminology and specification support across the three art units, but should not assume that one examiner’s treatment will carry across the docket. The assignment pattern favors centralized review of recurring claim concepts and separate analysis of each matter’s cited art.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | 1 | 72.0% | +32.4% |
| MARIN, DAKOTA | 1 | 52.5% | +59.3% |
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 1 | 42.7% | +42.9% |
| GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 29.7% | +37.2% |
| ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 1 | 37.5% | +0.0% |
| KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 1 | 35.1% | +27.4% |
| PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 1 | 42.9% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19292736 | SOLE | MARIN, DAKOTA | — |
| 19089783 | SOLE STRUCTURE AND SHOE INCLUDING THE SOLE STRUCTURE | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | — |
| 18869750 | MOISTURE-PERMEABLE WATERPROOFING LAYERED FABRIC, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND GARMENT OBTAINED USING SAME | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18930179 | HITTING TOOL SELECTION DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM, HITTING TOOL SELECTION DIAGNOSIS METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING DIAGNOSIS PROGRAM | ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | — |
| 18718095 | Grommet | BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19386163 | SHOE UPPER AND SHOE | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | — |
| 19292736 | SOLE | MARIN, DAKOTA | — |
| 19089783 | SOLE STRUCTURE AND SHOE INCLUDING THE SOLE STRUCTURE | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | — |
| 18869750 | MOISTURE-PERMEABLE WATERPROOFING LAYERED FABRIC, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND GARMENT OBTAINED USING SAME | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18584122 | Racket Frame | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | — |
| 18382758 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH SOLE SIDE FEATURES | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 4 |
| 3732 | 3 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19386163 | SHOE UPPER AND SHOE | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | 3732 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2025 |
| 19292736 | SOLE | MARIN, DAKOTA | 3732 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19089783 | SOLE STRUCTURE AND SHOE INCLUDING THE SOLE STRUCTURE | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18869750 | MOISTURE-PERMEABLE WATERPROOFING LAYERED FABRIC, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR, AND GARMENT OBTAINED USING SAME | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 1786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18930179 | HITTING TOOL SELECTION DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM, HITTING TOOL SELECTION DIAGNOSIS METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING DIAGNOSIS PROGRAM | ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | 3711 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18718095 | Grommet | BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 3711 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18584122 | Racket Frame | KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18382758 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH SOLE SIDE FEATURES | PIERCE, WILLIAM M | 3711 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMIZUNO Corporation has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 8 examiners.
John T Kavanaugh has the most, with 1 of MIZUNO Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
