Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Hea Law

40 pending office actions • 9 clients

Portfolio Summary

40
Total Pending OAs
11
Final Rejections
29
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Rakuten Group, Inc. 16
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. 9
Brose Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Berlin 4
Cybozu, Inc. 4
Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha 3
Rakuten Group, Inc. 1
Sekisui House, Ltd. 1
Cybozu Labs, Inc. 1
Avgidea, Inc. 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18877681 Untitled Brose Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Berlin KUNTZ, JEWEL A 3666 Non-Final OA
19221524 SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Rakuten Group, Inc. FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 2153 Non-Final OA May 29, 2025
19090446 WORK SUPPORT SYSTEM, WORK SUPPORT METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Cybozu, Inc. NGUYEN, PHONG H 2156 Non-Final OA Mar 26, 2025
19107555 WATCHING DEVICE, WATCHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Sekisui House, Ltd. REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 3686 Non-Final OA Feb 27, 2025
19059164 DISASSEMBLY METHOD FOR TWO-STAGE COLD HEAD, AND DISPLACER REMOVAL JIG Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. AFZALI, SARANG 3726 Non-Final OA Feb 20, 2025
19052236 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Rakuten Group, Inc. SHARON, AYAL I 3695 Non-Final OA Feb 12, 2025
18939525 APPOINTMENT ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, APPOINTMENT ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Cybozu, Inc. WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 Non-Final OA Nov 07, 2024
18932641 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Rakuten Group, Inc. ALMAGHAYREH, KHALID M 2492 Non-Final OA Oct 31, 2024
18916725 SETUP SUPPORT SYSTEM, SETUP SUPPORT METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Cybozu Labs, Inc. SYED, FARHAN M 2161 Final Rejection Oct 16, 2024
18905158 STEERING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha HUYNH, HAI H 3747 Non-Final OA Oct 03, 2024
18743087 CRYOCOOLER COMPRESSOR Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 Non-Final OA Jun 13, 2024
18741730 GAS REPLACEMENT METHOD FOR EXPANDER OF CRYOCOOLER, CRYOCOOLER, AND GAS REPLACEMENT PIPE Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 Non-Final OA Jun 12, 2024
18740399 CRYOCOOLER Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 Non-Final OA Jun 11, 2024
18665614 REGENERATOR MATERIAL FOR CRYOCOOLER, REGENERATOR FOR CRYOCOOLER, AND CRYOCOOLER Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 Non-Final OA May 16, 2024
18621116 SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET DEVICE Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER 2837 Final Rejection Mar 29, 2024
18696981 LAYOUT ANALYSIS SYSTEM, LAYOUT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. FATIMA, UROOJ 2676 Non-Final OA Mar 28, 2024
18696991 LAYOUT ANALYSIS SYSTEM, LAYOUT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 2668 Non-Final OA Mar 28, 2024
18693895 DRIVE DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE WITH ELECTRONIC CADENCE CONTROLLING Brose Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Berlin SCHOECH, ASHLEY TIFFANY 3669 Non-Final OA Mar 20, 2024
18691442 VEHICLE TRAVEL MONITORING SYSTEM, TRAVEL MONITORING METHOD, AND TRAVEL MONITORING PROGRAM Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM 2611 Non-Final OA Mar 12, 2024
18597958 SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET DEVICE Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 2838 Non-Final OA Mar 07, 2024
18686882 LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH 2672 Non-Final OA Feb 27, 2024
18575751 DRIVE SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE HAVING AN EMERGENCY MODE, AND CONTROL METHOD Brose Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Berlin BROWN, DREW J 3617 Non-Final OA Feb 01, 2024
18523917 PULSE TUBE CRYOCOOLER AND METHOD FOR COOLING DOWN PULSE TUBE CRYOCOOLER Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. PETTITT, JOHN F 3763 Final Rejection Nov 30, 2023
18508299 WEB DATABASE SYSTEM, PROCESSING EXECUTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Cybozu, Inc. TORGRIMSON, TYLER J 2165 Non-Final OA Nov 14, 2023
18476288 MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVISION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Cybozu, Inc. IWARERE, OLUSEYE 2834 Final Rejection Sep 27, 2023
18550678 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR FRAUD DETECTION Rakuten Group, Inc. WASHINGTON, JAMARES 2681 Non-Final OA Sep 14, 2023
18550053 DRIVE UNIT FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE HAVING A GEARING SUPPORT FOR MOUNTING GEARS OF TWO GEARING STAGES Brose Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Berlin WU, LORI SOUTHARD 3655 Final Rejection Sep 11, 2023
18366623 OPERATION SYSTEM, OPERATION METHOD, AND OPERATION PROGRAM FOR MOBILE BODY Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN 3648 Non-Final OA Aug 07, 2023
18199380 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Avgidea, Inc. RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 Final Rejection May 19, 2023
18114984 QUERY FORMATTING SYSTEM, QUERY FORMATTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM Rakuten Group, Inc. HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS 2659 Non-Final OA Feb 27, 2023
17928606 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY 3626 Final Rejection Nov 29, 2022
17964872 SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INCREASING TEMPERATURE THEREOF Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 1735 Final Rejection Oct 12, 2022
17783651 ESTIMATION SYSTEM, ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. YESILDAG, MEHMET 3624 Non-Final OA Sep 29, 2022
17911407 LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION SYSTEM, LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. ASGARI, SIMA 3698 Final Rejection Sep 13, 2022
17645740 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL IN A RESPONSE SERVER Rakuten Group, Inc. KIM, JONATHAN J 2141 Non-Final OA Dec 22, 2021
17616674 LEARNING SYSTEM AND LEARNING METHOD FOR MULTI-LABEL DATA RECOGNITION Rakuten Group, Inc. GORMLEY, AARON PATRICK 2148 Non-Final OA Dec 06, 2021
17055996 FRAUD ESTIMATION SYSTEM, FRAUD ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED 2148 Non-Final OA Nov 17, 2020
17056413 LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R 2122 Final Rejection Nov 17, 2020
16969964 SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY 2128 Non-Final OA Aug 13, 2020
16963841 SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM Rakuten Group, Inc. LE, MICHAEL 2163 Final Rejection Jul 22, 2020

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