Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
20 pending office actions • 13 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation currently manages 20 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 20 distinct examiners, which indicates a highly decentralized prosecution environment. Because no single examiner handles more than one of these actions, the foundation must adapt to many different individual styles and preferences at the USPTO. This fragmentation suggests that the company's patent strategy is not concentrated in a single specialized group but is instead spread across a broad array of examination personnel.
The 13 distinct art units involved suggest that the foundation's innovations span a wide range of technical classifications within its primary field. HON, MING Y is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though this individual is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution reinforces the need for a versatile legal strategy that can address the specific requirements of 13 different art units and many separate examiners simultaneously. Practitioners should expect a variety of procedural outcomes given the lack of examiner concentration across the pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HON, MING Y | 1 | 82.4% | +12.9% |
| CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1 | 45.0% | +70.0% |
| NGUYEN, NYCA T | 1 | 67.5% | +24.6% |
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.0% | +37.8% |
| VARNDELL, ROSS E | 1 | 84.7% | +13.3% |
| HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | 1 | 54.2% | +25.6% |
| WEARE, MEREDITH H | 1 | 50.4% | +31.7% |
| KUDO, KEN | 1 | — | — |
| COUNTS, GARY W | 1 | 58.9% | +29.5% |
| MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 1 | 28.3% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18219378 | MEDICAL DEVICE APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 16d overdue |
| 18859890 | LOWER BODY EXERCISE EQUIPMENT | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 10d overdue |
| 17791898 | DRUG INJECTION DEVICE | RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | 5d overdue |
| 19044783 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING TERTIARY STRUCTURE OF PATIENT-TAILORED IMPLANTS | HON, MING Y | — |
| 18836604 | DEMENTIA INFORMATION CALCULATION METHOD AND ANALYSIS DEVICE USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 18697585 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING PRUNE FOR PREVENTING OR RELIEVING LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION SYNDROME | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | — |
| 18396144 | PREDICTION METHOD FOR BREAKTHROUGH PAIN OF SUBJECT AND ANALYSIS APPARATUS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 18573952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CATARACT, USING DEEP LEARNING | KUDO, KEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859890 | LOWER BODY EXERCISE EQUIPMENT | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 10d overdue |
| 19044783 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING TERTIARY STRUCTURE OF PATIENT-TAILORED IMPLANTS | HON, MING Y | — |
| 18862694 | COMPOSITION FOR WOUND TREATMENT COMPRISING STEM CELL-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES WITH ENHANCED EFFICACY | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | — |
| 18884838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING LIKELIHOOD OF FALLING OR DEGREE OF ANESTHESIA RECOVERY | YIP, JACK | — |
| 18836604 | DEMENTIA INFORMATION CALCULATION METHOD AND ANALYSIS DEVICE USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | VARNDELL, ROSS E | — |
| 18697585 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING PRUNE FOR PREVENTING OR RELIEVING LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION SYNDROME | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | — |
| 18396144 | PREDICTION METHOD FOR BREAKTHROUGH PAIN OF SUBJECT AND ANALYSIS APPARATUS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 18393301 | Methods of Predicting Atopic Dermatitis | COUNTS, GARY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 5 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 1699 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19044783 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING TERTIARY STRUCTURE OF PATIENT-TAILORED IMPLANTS | HON, MING Y | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18862694 | COMPOSITION FOR WOUND TREATMENT COMPRISING STEM CELL-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES WITH ENHANCED EFFICACY | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18859890 | LOWER BODY EXERCISE EQUIPMENT | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 3784 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18884838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING LIKELIHOOD OF FALLING OR DEGREE OF ANESTHESIA RECOVERY | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18836604 | DEMENTIA INFORMATION CALCULATION METHOD AND ANALYSIS DEVICE USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 2674 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18697585 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING PRUNE FOR PREVENTING OR RELIEVING LOW ANTERIOR RESECTION SYNDROME | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | 1655 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18396144 | PREDICTION METHOD FOR BREAKTHROUGH PAIN OF SUBJECT AND ANALYSIS APPARATUS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18573952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CATARACT, USING DEEP LEARNING | KUDO, KEN | 2671 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18393301 | Methods of Predicting Atopic Dermatitis | COUNTS, GARY W | — | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18515839 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ALLOCATING OPERATING ROOMS BASED ON UTILIZATION RATE BY TIME PERIOD | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18219378 | MEDICAL DEVICE APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18035238 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING POSSIBILITY OF BRAIN AMYLOID BETA ACCUMULATION | BAUSCH, SARAE L | 1699 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18198443 | NOVEL BIOMARKER FOR PREDICTING PROGNOSIS OF TREATMENT OF HER2-POSITIVE BREAST CANCER AND USE THEREOF | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1683 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18029236 | DEEP LEARNING-BASED SIMPLE URINE FLOW TEST RESULT LEARNING METHOD AND LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM DIAGNOSIS METHOD | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 18009252 | BLOOD PUMP FOR CAUSING BLOOD TO FLOW IN ONE DIRECTION AND BLOOD OXIDATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18077894 | METHOD OF PREDICTING THERAPEUTIC RESPONSE AND PROGNOSIS OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER TO CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS, AND TREATING METASTATIC BREAST CANCER | CREWS, JARET JAMES | 1691 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17998727 | DROWSINESS WARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 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 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17791898 | DRUG INJECTION DEVICE | RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2022 |
| 17639972 | HIERARCHICAL DIAGNOSIS DEVICE OF BRAIN ATROPHY BASED ON BRAIN THICKNESS INFORMATION | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
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