Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samsung Medison Co., Ltd. has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket involves 8 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, indicating multiple examination relationships within a relatively limited set of technical units.
BEGEMAN, ANDREW W is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should monitor that examiner while organizing recurring issues by art unit and maintaining tailored responses for the remaining assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 2 | 47.1% | +19.0% |
| DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 1 | 53.3% | +36.3% |
| MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 1 | 46.8% | +24.0% |
| PENG, BO JOSEPH | 1 | 69.5% | +13.6% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.1% | +33.2% |
| LI, JOHN DENNY | 1 | 63.2% | +48.4% |
| ASGHAR, AMINAH | 1 | 60.8% | +46.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869789 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18672732 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE FROM VOLUME DATA AND DISPLAYING THE SAME | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 18584640 | ULTRASONIC PROBE | ASGHAR, AMINAH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820515 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BODY MARKER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 46d |
| 19155539 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | — |
| 19020598 | ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18989289 | METHOD OF REMOTE ACCESS TO ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
| 18869789 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18672732 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE FROM VOLUME DATA AND DISPLAYING THE SAME | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 18628160 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| 18584640 | ULTRASONIC PROBE | ASGHAR, AMINAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 5 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19155539 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19020598 | ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18989289 | METHOD OF REMOTE ACCESS TO ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 3682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18869789 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18820515 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BODY MARKER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18672732 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE FROM VOLUME DATA AND DISPLAYING THE SAME | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18628160 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18584640 | ULTRASONIC PROBE | ASGHAR, AMINAH | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSamsung Medison Co., Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 7 examiners.
Andrew W Begeman has the most, with 2 of Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
