Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner is reviewing more than one application. The pending matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a relatively concentrated technical focus within the communications sector.
SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 examiners handles exactly 1 action, the workload is evenly split among the assigned personnel. This distribution across 2 art units and 3 examiners requires the company to manage three separate prosecution tracks. The lack of examiner overlap means that the company's success for these 3 actions depends on the individual determinations of three different officials at the patent office.
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 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 1 | 58.0% | +38.8% |
| HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 1 | 70.2% | +43.1% |
| DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 1 | 31.3% | +83.3% |
| VO, QUANG N | 1 | 72.4% | +6.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19266403 | Systems and Methods for Automated Medical Image Identification for Protocols | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19266403 | Systems and Methods for Automated Medical Image Identification for Protocols | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — |
| 19217743 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING IMAGES | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | — |
| 18890212 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANONYMOUS AND SECURE SHARING OF MEDICAL IMAGES THROUGH A MESSAGING TOOL IN MEDICAL IMAGING PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19266403 | Systems and Methods for Automated Medical Image Identification for Protocols | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19217743 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING IMAGES | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 18890212 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANONYMOUS AND SECURE SHARING OF MEDICAL IMAGES THROUGH A MESSAGING TOOL IN MEDICAL IMAGING PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 2498 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18523598 | CONTEXTUAL PROCESSING OF ULTRASOUND DATA | VO, QUANG N | 2683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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