Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Samsung Electronics

19 pending office actions • 15 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (16%)
13
Medium (68%)
2
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (16%)
§103 only12 (63%)
§102 only1 (5%)
§112 only2 (11%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

7
Life Sciences
37% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
63% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PAULSON, SHEETAL R. 1 39.0% +16.6%
NGUYEN, NYCA T 1 67.3% +24.8%
KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 1 51.2% +48.3%
KANAAN, MAROUN P 1 62.7% +31.8%
FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 1 79.4% +18.5%
MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 1 57.3% +32.3%
FAN, LYNN Y 1 46.6% +49.1%
EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 1 52.9% +55.7%
AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A 1 26.7% +29.4%
HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 1 36.0% +46.8%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18147192 OUTPATIENT PREDICTION METHOD, OUTPATIENT PREDICTION APAPRATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORED IN RECORDING MEDIUM TO EXECUTE THE METHOD HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 19d overdue
18105516 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING INFORMATION TO PREDICTING BREAST RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY PROGNOSIS AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A 4d overdue
18958040 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING RESERVATION CAPACITY ACCORDING TO NO-SHOW RATE BASED ON PRESCRIPTION INFORMATION OF PATIENT PAULSON, SHEETAL R. 15d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18278898 DEVICE FOR REGENERATING NERVE CELLS AND SUPPRESSING IMMUNE DISEASES FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 23d overdue
18147192 OUTPATIENT PREDICTION METHOD, OUTPATIENT PREDICTION APAPRATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORED IN RECORDING MEDIUM TO EXECUTE THE METHOD HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 19d overdue
18219378 MEDICAL DEVICE APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 16d overdue
18859890 LOWER BODY EXERCISE EQUIPMENT NGUYEN, NYCA T 10d overdue
18036474 COMPOSITION FOR TREATING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, COMPRISING EXOSOMES DERIVED FROM THROMBIN-TREATED STEM CELLS FAN, LYNN Y 8d overdue
18105516 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING INFORMATION TO PREDICTING BREAST RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY PROGNOSIS AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A 4d overdue
18396950 METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON MEDICAL PERSONNEL KANAAN, MAROUN P 8d
18858895 EXERCISE APPARATUS KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 3
3784 2
1653 2
3615 1
3687 1
3792 1
1759 1
3686 1
3684 1
3685 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18958040 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING RESERVATION CAPACITY ACCORDING TO NO-SHOW RATE BASED ON PRESCRIPTION INFORMATION OF PATIENT PAULSON, SHEETAL R. 3615 §101 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18859890 LOWER BODY EXERCISE EQUIPMENT NGUYEN, NYCA T 3784 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18858895 EXERCISE APPARATUS KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 3784 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 22, 2024
18396950 METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON MEDICAL PERSONNEL KANAAN, MAROUN P 3687 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18278898 DEVICE FOR REGENERATING NERVE CELLS AND SUPPRESSING IMMUNE DISEASES FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 3792 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18219378 MEDICAL DEVICE APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18036474 COMPOSITION FOR TREATING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, COMPRISING EXOSOMES DERIVED FROM THROMBIN-TREATED STEM CELLS FAN, LYNN Y 1759 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18029236 DEEP LEARNING-BASED SIMPLE URINE FLOW TEST RESULT LEARNING METHOD AND LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM DIAGNOSIS METHOD EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 29, 2023
18105516 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING INFORMATION TO PREDICTING BREAST RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY PROGNOSIS AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A 3686 §101 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18147192 OUTPATIENT PREDICTION METHOD, OUTPATIENT PREDICTION APAPRATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORED IN RECORDING MEDIUM TO EXECUTE THE METHOD HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 3684 §101 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18078600 B-AMYLOID POSITIVE CONVERSION TARGET PREDICTION DEVICE GARTLAND, SCOTT D 3685 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 09, 2022
17998727 DROWSINESS WARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 14, 2022
17965656 COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING DIABETIC SKIN DISEASE COMPRISING EXOSOME-DERIVED FROM THROMBIN-TREATED STEM CELL REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA 1632 Other Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2022
17917831 STEM CELL CULTURING METHOD FOR PROMOTING INITIAL YIELD OF STEM CELLS MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Oct 07, 2022
17915067 RADIATION SENSITIVITY DIAGNOSIS METHOD UNDERDAHL, THANE E 1699 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17914142 COMPOSITION FOR CILIOGENESIS PROMOTION, CONTAINING, AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT, MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL OR MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL CULTURE SOLUTION BENZION, GARY 1681 §102 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17791898 DRUG INJECTION DEVICE RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2022
17631597 BIOMARKER FOR DIAGNOSING PANCREATIC CANCER, AND USE THEREOF GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 §112 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2022
17275659 UREMIC VASCULOPATHY MODEL USING ENDOTHELIAL CELLS DERIVED FROM INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS AND UREMIC COMPLEX, AND USE THEREOF MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2021

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