Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samson Aktiengesellschaft is managing 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these 5 actions is assigned to a different person among 5 distinct examiners. The portfolio's current activity spans 3 distinct art units, indicating that the pending applications cover a variety of mechanical or medical sub-sectors.
CHAUDRY, ATIF H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This broad distribution across examiners and art units suggests a diverse technical portfolio that requires managing multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. Practitioners should be prepared for a wide range of examiner expectations and art unit-specific procedures.
The presence of 5 distinct examiners ensures that each application receives an independent review. This decentralized approach requires a strategy that can adapt to the technical nuances of 3 distinct art units. The lack of examiner overlap ensures that each application receives an independent technical review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 81.2% | +14.5% |
| CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 1 | 70.7% | +16.5% |
| DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 1 | 73.9% | +16.1% |
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.7% | +24.0% |
| SINES, BRIAN J | 1 | 80.1% | +5.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109055 | POSITIONER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A POSITIONER | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | — |
| 18261556 | VALVE CAGE, PISTON, GLOBE VALVE, ANALYTICAL ASSEMBLY, USE OF AN ANALYTICAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A PROCESS FLUID FLOW | SINES, BRIAN J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18973935 | ADAPTER INSERT AND FLOW REGULATING ELEMENT FOR A CONTROL VALVE FOR FORMING A STEAM CONVERTER, STEAM CONVERTER AND CONTROL VALVE EQUIPPED THEREWITH | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 1d overdue |
| 18696550 | INSERT ARRANGEMENT, CONTROL VALVE AND PROCESS PLANT | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 33d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18973935 | ADAPTER INSERT AND FLOW REGULATING ELEMENT FOR A CONTROL VALVE FOR FORMING A STEAM CONVERTER, STEAM CONVERTER AND CONTROL VALVE EQUIPPED THEREWITH | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 1d overdue |
| 18696550 | INSERT ARRANGEMENT, CONTROL VALVE AND PROCESS PLANT | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 33d |
| 19109055 | POSITIONER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A POSITIONER | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | — |
| 19109054 | POSITION CONTROLLER | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 3 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109055 | POSITIONER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A POSITIONER | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19109054 | POSITION CONTROLLER | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18973935 | ADAPTER INSERT AND FLOW REGULATING ELEMENT FOR A CONTROL VALVE FOR FORMING A STEAM CONVERTER, STEAM CONVERTER AND CONTROL VALVE EQUIPPED THEREWITH | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18696550 | INSERT ARRANGEMENT, CONTROL VALVE AND PROCESS PLANT | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18261556 | VALVE CAGE, PISTON, GLOBE VALVE, ANALYTICAL ASSEMBLY, USE OF AN ANALYTICAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A PROCESS FLUID FLOW | SINES, BRIAN J | 1797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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