Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Siemens Healthcare

14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (79%)
3
Easy (21%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (71%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only3 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
7% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
6
Communications
43% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
43% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 1 67.3% +25.9%
FARAG, AMAL ALY 1 67.0% +37.6%
GROSS, JASON PATRICK 1 60.0% +48.2%
DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN 1 77.1% +23.7%
SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 1 72.8% +20.0%
HAUK, EMILY ROSE 1 100.0% +0.0%
KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 1 82.0% +14.2%
DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY 1 76.9% +32.9%
POTTS, RYAN PATRICK 1 79.7% +39.0%
HARANDI, SIAMAK 1 90.7% +7.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18607823 ENERGY-RESOLVED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION HAUK, EMILY ROSE 24d overdue
18582981 CERAMIC SUPPORT PLATE KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 29d
18323566 Artificial Intelligence-based Stroke Risk Prediction from Carotid Artery Imaging Information HARANDI, SIAMAK 56d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18365278 MEDICAL IMAGE SYNTHESIS POTTS, RYAN PATRICK 78d overdue
18800174 Surgical Guidance with Compounded Ultrasound Imaging FARAG, AMAL ALY 43d overdue
18437354 AI-DRIVEN MOTION CORRECTION OF PET DATA DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY 30d overdue
18811844 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION-DEPENDENT USER INTERFACE IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 9d overdue
18648959 QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND MEDICAL IMAGING ENHANCED BY INTERVENING TISSUE DETERMINATION GROSS, JASON PATRICK 15d
18632353 TOPOGRAM-BASED LOCALIZATION AND/OR ATTENUATION MAPPING IN EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN 26d
18582981 CERAMIC SUPPORT PLATE KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 29d
18617678 ULTRASOUND MODULAR FRONT-END FRAMEWORK SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 3
3797 2
2666 1
2669 1
1714 1
2663 1
2672 1
2662 1
2857 1
2661 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18811844 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION-DEPENDENT USER INTERFACE IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH 3798 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2024
18800174 Surgical Guidance with Compounded Ultrasound Imaging FARAG, AMAL ALY 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2024
18648959 QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND MEDICAL IMAGING ENHANCED BY INTERVENING TISSUE DETERMINATION GROSS, JASON PATRICK 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18632353 TOPOGRAM-BASED LOCALIZATION AND/OR ATTENUATION MAPPING IN EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN 2666 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 11, 2024
18617678 ULTRASOUND MODULAR FRONT-END FRAMEWORK SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18607823 ENERGY-RESOLVED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION HAUK, EMILY ROSE 2669 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18582981 CERAMIC SUPPORT PLATE KUNEMUND, ROBERT M 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18437354 AI-DRIVEN MOTION CORRECTION OF PET DATA DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY 2663 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2024
18365278 MEDICAL IMAGE SYNTHESIS POTTS, RYAN PATRICK 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18323566 Artificial Intelligence-based Stroke Risk Prediction from Carotid Artery Imaging Information HARANDI, SIAMAK 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending May 25, 2023
18184958 PREDICTION OF MECHANICAL FAILURE GO, RICKY 2857 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Mar 16, 2023
17806743 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ACCELERATED DYNAMIC IMAGING IN PET CROCKETT, JOSHUA BRIGHAM 2661 §112 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2022
17691093 SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING A BRACHYTHERAPY TREATMENT, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SUPERVISION INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT DORNA, CARRIE R 3791 §112 Final Rejection 42d Pending Mar 09, 2022
15810818 Method And System For Dose-Less Attenuation Correction For PET And SPECT KELLOGG, MICHAEL S 3798 §112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Nov 13, 2017

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