Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samsung Electronics maintains a company patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently faces 5 pending office actions, which are distributed across 5 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests a diverse range of perspectives being applied to the company's applications, even within a single technology sector.
The prosecution effort is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the pending office actions involve varied technical sub-specialties. This distribution requires a broader strategic approach than a more centralized portfolio, as the company must navigate the specific standards of multiple administrative units. The busiest examiner, FEITL, LEAH M, is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
Given that the busiest examiner only handles a portion of the active workload, the 5 pending office actions are spread among multiple officials. No single examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape, which may reduce the impact of any individual's specific biases on the overall portfolio. Practitioners should prepare for a multi-faceted engagement across the 3 distinct art units involved to ensure consistent results.
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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (67%) |
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 | 22.6% | +5.8% |
| REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 1 | 30.2% | +33.2% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
| PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 1 | 51.6% | +40.5% |
| ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 1 | 36.1% | +30.5% |
| HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3687 | 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 | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 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 | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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