Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samsung Electronics maintains 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are being reviewed in separate art units. This indicates that the company's current patent applications are being processed through different administrative channels. Navigating multiple examination environments requires a flexible approach to patent drafting and response preparation.
PATTERSON, SARAH COOPER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently active. This accounts for 1 of the 2 pending office actions total. With multiple examiners and art units involved, the company's prosecution strategy must be adapted to the specific requirements of different examination teams in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field. Consistent communication with each official is necessary to ensure the alignment of the company's intellectual property goals.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF | 1 | 57.4% | +30.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17294030 | STABLE LIQUID COMPOSITION COMPRISING PROTEIN | ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17294030 | STABLE LIQUID COMPOSITION COMPRISING PROTEIN | ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF | 1646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSamsung Electronics has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sarah Abdoalatif Alsomairy has the most, with 1 of Samsung Electronics's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
