Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 140 patents granted in the last 365 days
Canon Medical Systems Corporation has 12 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 12 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner and technical distribution. Only limited technical grouping is visible, so portfolio coordination should not replace application-specific analysis.
KOLKIN, ADAM D. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The lack of repeated examiner assignment favors consistent communications terminology and disclosure support across the docket, combined with separate review of claim interpretation and cited art for each matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (27%) |
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 1 | 45.0% | +6.2% |
| HSIEH, PING Y | 1 | 79.1% | +15.5% |
| TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 1 | 81.6% | +11.6% |
| CURRAN, GREGORY H | 1 | 90.2% | +5.3% |
| FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1 | 86.0% | +14.4% |
| MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 1 | 86.2% | +6.2% |
| COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1 | 81.8% | +42.4% |
| WELLS, HEATH E | 1 | 79.6% | +7.5% |
| ENG, GEORGE | 1 | 38.5% | +22.6% |
| PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 1 | 39.3% | +16.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978118 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THAT PERFORM INFERENCING ON IMAGES IN AN ACQUIRED IMAGE GROUP BASED ON A SELECTED INFERENCE MODEL | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
| 18973461 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | CURRAN, GREGORY H | — |
| 18664391 | SAMPLE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND HOUSING CONTAINER | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17935994 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 154d overdue |
| 19316141 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | — |
| 18938430 | SPECTRUM ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SPECTRUM ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| 18903015 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17935994 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 154d overdue |
| 18322719 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | ENG, GEORGE | 31d overdue |
| 19016764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING A NEURAL NETWORK IN A MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
| 18978118 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THAT PERFORM INFERENCING ON IMAGES IN AN ACQUIRED IMAGE GROUP BASED ON A SELECTED INFERENCE MODEL | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
| 18938430 | SPECTRUM ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SPECTRUM ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| 18664391 | SAMPLE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND HOUSING CONTAINER | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2664 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 2699 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19316141 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19016764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING A NEURAL NETWORK IN A MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | HSIEH, PING Y | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18978118 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THAT PERFORM INFERENCING ON IMAGES IN AN ACQUIRED IMAGE GROUP BASED ON A SELECTED INFERENCE MODEL | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 2656 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18973461 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | CURRAN, GREGORY H | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18938430 | SPECTRUM ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SPECTRUM ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FORTICH, ALVARO E | 2858 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18903015 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 2665 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18664391 | SAMPLE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND HOUSING CONTAINER | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18629010 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | WELLS, HEATH E | 2664 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18322719 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | ENG, GEORGE | 2699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 17935994 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 3615 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 154d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17939217 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCanon Medical Systems Corporation has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 11 examiners.
Adam D. Kolkin has the most, with 1 of Canon Medical Systems Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.