Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samsung Electronics has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution with some art-unit overlap. FEITL, LEAH M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
The close relationship between pending matters and examiner assignments indicates that the portfolio is spread across examination personnel rather than concentrated around a recurring examiner. The art-unit count shows that some matters share examination environments, creating a useful basis for monitoring common technical treatment. Counsel should maintain examiner-specific response plans while reviewing art-unit practice for recurring approaches to claim scope, prior art, and amendment strategy. The listed busiest examiner does not represent a repeated assignment, so portfolio coordination is more likely to depend on art-unit tracking than on a single examiner relationship.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (29%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (57%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEITL, LEAH M | 1 | 22.1% | +6.8% |
| PATEL, JAY P | 1 | 84.7% | +5.3% |
| REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 1 | 30.1% | +33.4% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.9% | +40.2% |
| PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 1 | 51.6% | +40.5% |
| ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 1 | 35.7% | +29.8% |
| HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668548 | COOPERATIVE SPECTRUM SENSING METHOD FOR COGNITIVE RADIO DEVICE | PATEL, JAY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18478042 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A SCORE FOR A SLEEP QUALITY COMPONENT | ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 9d overdue |
| 18378275 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AND CORRECTING HEART RATE IN EXERCISES USING BAROMETER SIGNAL FROM WEARABLE DEVICES | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 14d |
| 18517674 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AEROBIC THRESHOLD AND ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD AND ESTABLISHING THE OPTIMAL AEROBIC TRAINING ZONE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 50d |
| 18532628 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING FITNESS SCORES FROM WEARABLE DEVICE DATA | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 70d |
| 18669715 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMIZING A VARIETY OF NEURAL NETWORK DESIGN PRINCIPLES IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS | FEITL, LEAH M | — |
| 18203738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FOOD INTAKE EVENTS FROM WEARABLE DEVICES AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18478042 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A SCORE FOR A SLEEP QUALITY COMPONENT | ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 9d overdue |
| 18378275 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AND CORRECTING HEART RATE IN EXERCISES USING BAROMETER SIGNAL FROM WEARABLE DEVICES | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 14d |
| 18517674 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AEROBIC THRESHOLD AND ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD AND ESTABLISHING THE OPTIMAL AEROBIC TRAINING ZONE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 50d |
| 18532628 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING FITNESS SCORES FROM WEARABLE DEVICE DATA | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2147 | 1 |
| 2466 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18669715 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMIZING A VARIETY OF NEURAL NETWORK DESIGN PRINCIPLES IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS | FEITL, LEAH M | 2147 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18668548 | COOPERATIVE SPECTRUM SENSING METHOD FOR COGNITIVE RADIO DEVICE | PATEL, JAY P | 2466 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18532628 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING FITNESS SCORES FROM WEARABLE DEVICE DATA | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 3686 | §101 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18517674 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AEROBIC THRESHOLD AND ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD AND ESTABLISHING THE OPTIMAL AEROBIC TRAINING ZONE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18378275 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AND CORRECTING HEART RATE IN EXERCISES USING BAROMETER SIGNAL FROM WEARABLE DEVICES | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18478042 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A SCORE FOR A SLEEP QUALITY COMPONENT | ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 3687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18203738 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FOOD INTAKE EVENTS FROM WEARABLE DEVICES AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSamsung Electronics has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Leah M Feitl has the most, with 1 of Samsung Electronics's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
