Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 154 patents granted in the last 365 days
Canon Medical Systems Corporation currently has 14 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 14 actions are distributed across 8 distinct art units, showing a breadth in their medical and mechanical patent filings. The portfolio is reviewed by 14 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is assigned to a different individual. This distribution requires managing 14 separate examiner relationships to resolve the 14 pending actions. The 8 distinct art units further suggest a variety of technical sub-specialties are involved.
KOLKIN, ADAM D. is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 14 examiners each handling 1 action, the company's prosecution experience is highly fragmented. There is no concentration of cases under any single examiner, as each of the 14 distinct examiners has only 1 pending office action. Practitioners should be prepared for 14 unique sets of examiner expectations across the 8 distinct art units. The 14 pending office actions represent a wide-reaching effort in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (23%) |
| §103 only | 5 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (23%) |
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 | 46.9% | +5.1% |
| HSIEH, PING Y | 1 | 79.1% | +15.4% |
| CURRAN, GREGORY H | 1 | 90.2% | +5.2% |
| FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1 | 85.9% | +14.4% |
| MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 1 | 86.1% | +7.9% |
| DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 1 | 71.3% | +31.7% |
| WELLS, HEATH E | 1 | 80.0% | +6.2% |
| LE, MICHAEL | 1 | 65.8% | +21.6% |
| ENG, GEORGE | 1 | 40.0% | +18.6% |
| SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 1 | 52.0% | +55.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629010 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | WELLS, HEATH E | 15d |
| 18973461 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | CURRAN, GREGORY H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. 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 |
| 18173583 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 16d 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 | — |
| 18657843 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18322719 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | ENG, GEORGE | 31d overdue |
| 18173583 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 16d overdue |
| 18387500 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR ENABLING ESTIMATION ACCURACY OF A REFERENCE CROSS-SECTION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE | LE, MICHAEL | 28d |
| 19016764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING A NEURAL NETWORK IN A MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
| 18938430 | SPECTRUM ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SPECTRUM ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — |
| 18657843 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 3 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2614 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18973461 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | CURRAN, GREGORY H | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18938430 | SPECTRUM ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SPECTRUM ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FORTICH, ALVARO E | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18903015 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18657843 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | 2677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 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 |
| 18387500 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR ENABLING ESTIMATION ACCURACY OF A REFERENCE CROSS-SECTION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE | LE, MICHAEL | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18322719 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | ENG, GEORGE | 2699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18173583 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18170726 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, AND NON-VOLATILE COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THEREIN IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 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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