Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Pokémon Company has 7 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that the docket is grouped into a limited number of technical examination settings while still involving several examiner relationships.
GILLS, KURTIS is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment is the largest examiner concentration in the profile. Counsel may use the shared art-unit structure to identify recurring technical issues, but should keep separate examiner-specific histories for claim construction, cited references, and amendment outcomes across the seven actions.
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 only | 2 (22%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (67%) |
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLS, KURTIS | 2 | 58.0% | +28.8% |
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 2 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
| DETWEILER, JAMES M | 1 | 39.0% | +43.6% |
| DOSHI, ANKIT B | 1 | 67.3% | +22.1% |
| DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | 1 | 33.3% | +66.7% |
| LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 1 | 64.6% | +22.3% |
| ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 1 | 58.8% | +33.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18530246 | SIMULATION SYSTEM, SIMULATION METHOD, AND SIMULATION PROGRAM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 84d |
| 19188043 | PROGRAM, METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 19186641 | PROGRAM, METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 19184649 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING GAME PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, GAME SYSTEM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD, AND GAME APPARATUS | DETWEILER, JAMES M | — |
| 19050133 | GAMIFICATION OF HEALTH AWARENESS BASED ON A WAKE-UP TIME | DOSHI, ANKIT B | — |
| 18818631 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | — |
| 18442516 | STORAGE MEDIUM, GAME SYSTEM AND GAME CONTROL METHOD | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | — |
| 18533204 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME METHOD, GAME PROGRAM, AND GAME SERVER | THOMAS, ERIC M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18530246 | SIMULATION SYSTEM, SIMULATION METHOD, AND SIMULATION PROGRAM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 84d |
| 19188043 | PROGRAM, METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 19186641 | PROGRAM, METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 19184649 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING GAME PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, GAME SYSTEM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD, AND GAME APPARATUS | DETWEILER, JAMES M | — |
| 19050133 | GAMIFICATION OF HEALTH AWARENESS BASED ON A WAKE-UP TIME | DOSHI, ANKIT B | — |
| 18818631 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | — |
| 18442516 | STORAGE MEDIUM, GAME SYSTEM AND GAME CONTROL METHOD | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | — |
| 18533204 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME METHOD, GAME PROGRAM, AND GAME SERVER | THOMAS, ERIC M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 5 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19188043 | PROGRAM, METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19186641 | PROGRAM, METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19184649 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING GAME PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, GAME SYSTEM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD, AND GAME APPARATUS | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19050133 | GAMIFICATION OF HEALTH AWARENESS BASED ON A WAKE-UP TIME | DOSHI, ANKIT B | 3715 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18818631 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME METHOD, AND GAME PROGRAM | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | 2623 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18442516 | STORAGE MEDIUM, GAME SYSTEM AND GAME CONTROL METHOD | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 3715 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18533204 | GAME SYSTEM, GAME METHOD, GAME PROGRAM, AND GAME SERVER | THOMAS, ERIC M | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18530246 | SIMULATION SYSTEM, SIMULATION METHOD, AND SIMULATION PROGRAM | THOMAS, ERIC M | 3715 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18078108 | WALKING SUPPORT SYSTEM, WALKING SUPPORT METHOD, AND WALKING SUPPORT PROGRAM | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe Pokémon Company has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Kurtis Gills has the most, with 2 of The Pokémon Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
