Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Samsung Electronics

20 pending office actions • 18 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
4
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
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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.

1
Hard (5%)
19
Medium (95%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only19 (95%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
15
Information Tech
75% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LE, DEBBIE M 1 89.5% +10.3%
BAKER, IRENE H 1 54.4% +27.0%
WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 1 70.8% +17.4%
LAKHANI, ANDREW C 1 22.2% +30.7%
WHITE, JOSHUA RAYMOND 1 76.7% +36.0%
MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 1 66.9% +23.9%
NGUYEN, TRONG H 1 79.6% +56.9%
CHEN, SHIN HON 1 86.7% +13.4%
CHEN, BILL 1 0.0% +0.0%
DUNN, DARRIN D 1 75.4% +23.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18505421 METHOD FOR AUTOMATING CLOUD BUILDING CHEN, SHIN HON 7d
19169470 METHOD FOR BUILDING DATABASE FOR RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION INTERLINKED WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR LE, DEBBIE M 22d

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
18638253 METHOD FOR EMBEDDING GRAPH AND SYSTEM THEREFOR MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 52d overdue
19066840 GENERATING AI-BASED COLLABORATION METHOD AND SYSTEM LAKHANI, ANDREW C 43d overdue
18384705 METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED CHAT ROOM FOR SENDING MESSAGE, AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME CHEN, BILL

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18638253 METHOD FOR EMBEDDING GRAPH AND SYSTEM THEREFOR MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 52d overdue
19066840 GENERATING AI-BASED COLLABORATION METHOD AND SYSTEM LAKHANI, ANDREW C 43d overdue
18384153 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TASK RECORDING USING ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY DUNN, DARRIN D 16d overdue
18917897 METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATIC PQC MIGRATION FOR APPLICATION WHITE, JOSHUA RAYMOND 2d overdue
18511928 METHOD FOR SECURING MARKETPLACE IN CLOUD AND APPARATUS THEREOF NGUYEN, TRONG H 5d
18505421 METHOD FOR AUTOMATING CLOUD BUILDING CHEN, SHIN HON 7d
19072475 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING FILE NAME WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 9d
19169470 METHOD FOR BUILDING DATABASE FOR RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION INTERLINKED WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR LE, DEBBIE M 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2165 2
2127 2
2168 1
2152 1
3629 1
2438 1
2163 1
2436 1
2431 1
3626 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19169470 METHOD FOR BUILDING DATABASE FOR RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION INTERLINKED WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR LE, DEBBIE M 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 03, 2025
19075174 METHOD FOR GENERATING RESPONSE TO USER QUERY USING MULTIPLE VECTOR DB COLLECTIONS AND APPARATUS THEREOF BAKER, IRENE H 2152 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 10, 2025
19072475 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING FILE NAME WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 06, 2025
19066840 GENERATING AI-BASED COLLABORATION METHOD AND SYSTEM LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2025
18917897 METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATIC PQC MIGRATION FOR APPLICATION WHITE, JOSHUA RAYMOND 2438 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2024
18638253 METHOD FOR EMBEDDING GRAPH AND SYSTEM THEREFOR MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 2163 §101 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18511928 METHOD FOR SECURING MARKETPLACE IN CLOUD AND APPARATUS THEREOF NGUYEN, TRONG H 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18505421 METHOD FOR AUTOMATING CLOUD BUILDING CHEN, SHIN HON 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18384705 METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED CHAT ROOM FOR SENDING MESSAGE, AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME CHEN, BILL 3626 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 27, 2023
18384153 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TASK RECORDING USING ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18383689 METHOD OF OPTIMIZING EXECUTION OF RPA BOT KANG, INSUN 2193 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18494009 APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION TRANSACTIONS VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18492271 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR GROUPING WORK REQUEST CONTENTS SELECTED FROM A WORK REQUEST CONTENT LIST GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Oct 23, 2023
18232142 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING AREA OF INTEREST IN A DOCUMENT LAM, ANDREW H 2682 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18221742 METHOD FOR EMBEDDING DATA AND SYSTEM THEREOF CASANOVA, JORGE A 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18144505 METHOD FOR SOLVING PROBLEM AND SYSTEM THEREOF STANLEY, JEREMY L 2127 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18142897 GRAPH EMBEDDING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF GODO, MORIAM MOSUNMOLA 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 03, 2023
18095071 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION OF INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SERVICE KING, DAVIDA LEE 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 128d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2023
18091940 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING IMAGE USING QUANTUM CIRCUIT LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 2128 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
17081750 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING INFERENCE MODELS BASED ON PREDICTION DATA FACCENDA, GISEL GABRIELA 2127 §103 Final Rejection 119d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2020

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