Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sega Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing separate examiner assignments alongside some grouping within the technical organization.
BODDIE, WILLIAM is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. Because no examiner repeats in the available data, coordination should focus on the shared art-unit relationships while preserving matter-specific responses for each examiner.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BODDIE, WILLIAM | 1 | 27.9% | +22.1% |
| LARSEN, CARL VICTOR | 1 | 69.7% | +19.7% |
| JOHANSSON, KENNETH HAROLD | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 1 | 77.0% | +31.2% |
| YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198709 | ARTICLE-WINNING GAME DEVICE | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
| 19077791 | LOTTERY GAME MACHINE AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LARSEN, CARL VICTOR | — |
| 19033904 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | JOHANSSON, KENNETH HAROLD | — |
| 18816854 | GAME SYSTEM AND ITEM ACQUISITION GAME DEVICE | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198709 | ARTICLE-WINNING GAME DEVICE | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
| 19077791 | LOTTERY GAME MACHINE AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LARSEN, CARL VICTOR | — |
| 19018735 | GAME SYSTEM | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3711 | 2 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198709 | ARTICLE-WINNING GAME DEVICE | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19077791 | LOTTERY GAME MACHINE AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LARSEN, CARL VICTOR | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19033904 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | JOHANSSON, KENNETH HAROLD | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19018735 | GAME SYSTEM | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 3711 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18816854 | GAME SYSTEM AND ITEM ACQUISITION GAME DEVICE | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSega Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
William Boddie has the most, with 1 of Sega Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
