Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3,284 pending office actions • 389 art units • 2059 examiners • 585 of 3,284 (18%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8,014 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has 3370 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The portfolio spans 2095 distinct examiners and 391 distinct art units, creating an extensive prosecution operation across many examination environments.
SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH is the busiest examiner, with 10 pending matters. That assignment is a small segment of the full workload, so scalable portfolio governance is essential. Counsel should combine centralized analytics and issue tracking with examiner-specific preparation and art-unit coordination.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 583 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. 583 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 only | 42 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 175 (5%) |
| §103 only | 1,397 (43%) |
| §102 only | 289 (9%) |
| §112 only | 97 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 45 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 22 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1,200 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 17 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 10 | 72.3% | +18.4% |
| GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 9 | 33.3% | +56.8% |
| OZDEN, ILKER NMN | 8 | 83.3% | +25.9% |
| BEGUM, SULTANA | 7 | 93.5% | +0.3% |
| NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | 7 | 44.7% | +14.4% |
| GREEN, TELLY D | 7 | 82.0% | +4.0% |
| RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 7 | 91.2% | +4.9% |
| NADAV, ORI | 7 | 60.0% | +21.2% |
| MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 7 | 85.7% | +33.3% |
| IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 7 | 81.8% | +22.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18150415 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 7d |
| 18229560 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 22d |
| 17871127 | QUANTUM DOT, QUANTUM DOT COMPOSITE, DISPLAY PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 27d |
| 19018469 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING COMMAND BUS TRAINING MODE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | BEGUM, SULTANA | — |
| 19002120 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING COMMAND BUS TRAINING MODE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | BEGUM, SULTANA | — |
| 18953964 | MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICE | BEGUM, SULTANA | — |
| 18900110 | READ OFFSET COMPENSATOR FOR ADJUSTING REFERENCE RESISTANCE USING COARSE OFFSET REFERENCE RESISTANCE AND FINE OFFSET REFERENCE RESISTANCE, AND MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | BEGUM, SULTANA | — |
| 18888158 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | OZDEN, ILKER NMN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18098843 | METHOD AND UE RECEIVING MULTICAST SERVICE FOR REPORTING CSI/SRS SIGNAL INFORMATION TO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK | DINH, DUNG C | 307d overdue |
| 17266881 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | JANGBAHADUR, LAKERAM | 171d overdue |
| 19051680 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | HERMANN, KIRK W | 160d overdue |
| 18093086 | WEARABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING HUMAN BODY IMPEDANCE | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 156d overdue |
| 18157485 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING SWITCHING TIMING FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, VAN TA | 153d overdue |
| 18019893 | HOT FLASH MULTI-SENSOR CIRCUIT SYSTEM | PATEL, NIKETA I | 121d overdue |
| 18194082 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FINDING CAUSALITY BETWEEN APPLICATION INSTRUMENTATION POINTS | HEBERT, THEODORE E | 111d overdue |
| 17690310 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING PROCESS ANOMALIES | LANE, THOMAS BERNARD | 78d overdue |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING UPLINK POWER CONTROL AND UPLINK CHANNEL TRANSMISSION | GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE | 19d overdue |
| 18378369 | SELECTIVE THIN FILM FORMATION METHOD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME | NGUYEN, SOPHIA T | 6d |
| 18150415 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 7d |
| 18133198 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | OZDEN, ILKER NMN | 9d |
| 18239191 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL | 13d |
| 17871127 | QUANTUM DOT, QUANTUM DOT COMPOSITE, DISPLAY PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 27d |
| 18471746 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | SENGDARA, VONGSAVANH | 60d |
| 18459520 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 72d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 119 |
| 2812 | 85 |
| 2898 | 83 |
| 2817 | 76 |
| 2818 | 73 |
| 2899 | 61 |
| 2897 | 61 |
| 2841 | 42 |
| 3723 | 37 |
| 3763 | 35 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19641129 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE | MIDKIFF, AARON | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2026 |
| 19629760 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHANGING VIEWING ANGLE OF PARTIAL AREA OF DISPLAY PANEL | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 2627 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2026 |
| 19568176 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DRIVING PIXEL, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2026 |
| 19542024 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MANAGING PLURALITY OF WINDOWS OF VIRTUAL SCREEN IN VIRTUAL REALITY SPACE | AU, SCOTT D | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2026 |
| 19535503 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR | SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2026 |
| 19531100 | DISPLAY APPARATUS DISPLAYING VIRTUAL INDICATOR AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | BOLOTIN, DMITRIY | 2623 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Feb 05, 2026 |
| 19459711 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING USER INPUT BY USING ONE OR MORE SENSORS, AND METHOD THEREFOR | XIE, KWIN | 2626 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2026 |
| 19457876 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR MAKING PAYMENT | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2026 |
| 19455129 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | OSORIO, RICARDO | 2625 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2026 |
| 19453550 | SLIDABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY PANEL, METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ZHOU, HONG | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2026 |
| 19450236 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | SHAH, PRIYANK J | 2626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2026 |
| 19442539 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING DISPLAY PANEL HAVING CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL FOR SENSING | FIGUEROA-GIBSON, GLORYVID | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19439964 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | SHAH, SUJIT | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19438177 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | FRANK, EMILY J | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19435040 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | AMADIZ, RODNEY | 2622 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19432335 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT | WILSON, DOUGLAS M | 2622 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2025 |
| 19425150 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CHANGING VIEWING ANGLE OF PARTIAL AREA OF DISPLAY PANEL | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 2627 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19412288 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CHANGING DISPLAY MODE OF DISPLAY | PARK, SANGHYUK | 2623 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2025 |
| 19407577 | ROBOT CLEANER | BROCKMAN, ELDON T | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2025 |
| 19406111 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL OBJECT THROUGH MIRROR DISPLAY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ABDIN, SHAHEDA A | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
| 19403580 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE | YODICHKAS, ANEETA | 2627 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2025 |
| 19401872 | WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE THAT IDENTIFIES USER INPUT IN EXTERNAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | SOTO LOPEZ, JOSE R | 2622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2025 |
| 19397331 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19391120 | ROBOT DRIVING IN SPACE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2025 |
| 19390607 | RING-TYPE WEARABLE DEVICE | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2025 |
| 19389943 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DRIVING LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENTS OF DISPLAY | LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | 2622 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19390247 | DISPLAY MODULE | TAYLOR JR, DUANE N | 2626 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19388513 | DISPLAY MODULE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SCAN GROUPS, MODULAR DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | ALMEIDA, CORY A | 2628 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19388296 | CENTRIFUGAL FAN MODULE, COOLING DEVICE, AND REFRIGERATOR INCLUDING THE SAME | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19388414 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING EYE-TRACKING SENSOR AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | BOLOTIN, DMITRIY | 2623 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19387019 | HEAT DISSIPATION MEMBER AND WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING HEAT DISSIPATION MEMBER | ALMEIDA, CORY A | 2628 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 19381955 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY MODULE AND ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY APPARATUS | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19380231 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING AND CANCELLING FUNCTION BY USING FLEXIBLE UI AND USER RESPONSE IN PROCESS OF AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTING FUNCTION, AND DEVICE THEREOF | PATEL, PREMAL R | 2624 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19375993 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SELECTIVE MAGNIFICATION IN THREE DIMENSIONAL RENDERING SYSTEMS | WOOD, WILLIAM H | 3992 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | AI Ready | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19370092 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF | BRITTINGHAM, NATHANIEL P | 2629 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19368580 | WEARABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE ON BASIS OF BIT SEQUENCES HAVING DIFFERENT BIT DEPTHS | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2625 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19367222 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CHOWDHURY, AFROZA Y | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19360483 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PLACING OBJECT IN AUGMENTED REALITY ACCORDING TO SPACE AND OPERATION METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE | NGUYEN, JENNIFER T | 2629 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19357470 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF RECOMMENDED RESPONSE MESSAGES | TARAE, CATHERINE MICHELLE | 3992 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19475296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED UNSTRUCTURED DATA-PLANE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | LU, KUEN S | 2165 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19353062 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | HOANG, KEN | 2168 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19350624 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PANEL FOR CONTROL OF APPLICATION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | COHEN, YARON | 2626 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19343358 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | NGUYEN, JENNIFER T | 2629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19340718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA GENERATION | LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | 2166 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19337352 | ROBOT APPARATUS | O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES | 3614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19331541 | MEMORY DEVICE AND SYSTEM INCLUDING TIERED MEMORY STRUCTURE | DUDEK JR, EDWARD J | 2132 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19327307 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | KHALID, OMER | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 19324878 | SUBSTRATE TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH CHARGING FUNCTION | JOHNSON, KYLE T | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19324707 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR CONTENT PLAYBACK AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF | KIM, WILLIAM JW | 2409 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19324052 | ROBOT FOR GRIPPING AN OBJECT USING DUAL FINGERS AND OBJECT GRIP METHOD THEREOF | SAMPLE, JONATHAN L | 3657 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
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