Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sony Interactive Entertainement LLC maintains a focused prosecution presence within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action, which is being handled by a single distinct examiner. This concentration suggests a highly specific set of filings within this particular technological domain. The lack of diversity in examiners indicates that the current active matters are not spread across multiple examination teams.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy appears centralized within a single administrative division of the patent office. Practitioners should note that the workload is entirely concentrated under this one examiner, making their specific patterns critical to the portfolio's current progress. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the active office action landscape for the company in this dataset.
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 (100%) |
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% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17893990 | IMPLEMENTATION OF GAMING ASSETS AS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTS) ACROSS SAVE STATES OF GAMES | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17893990 | IMPLEMENTATION OF GAMING ASSETS AS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTS) ACROSS SAVE STATES OF GAMES | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17893990 | IMPLEMENTATION OF GAMING ASSETS AS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTS) ACROSS SAVE STATES OF GAMES | PINHEIRO, JASON PAUL | 3715 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSony Interactive Entertainement LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jason Paul Pinheiro has the most, with 1 of Sony Interactive Entertainement LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
