Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siphox Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are distributed across 5 examiners and 5 art units, showing a broad range of examination assignments rather than a shared channel.
KIM, SAMUEL CHONG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Portfolio management should emphasize separate matter reviews and avoid assuming that one response approach will transfer across the assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 49.2% | +69.8% |
| THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | 1 | 75.8% | +25.0% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000818 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTONIC CHIP COUPLING | THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | 99d overdue |
| 18199199 | APPARATUS FOR A MULTIPURPOSE FLUID EXTRACTION DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSTICS AND METHOD OF USE | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 97d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000818 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTONIC CHIP COUPLING | THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | 99d overdue |
| 18199199 | APPARATUS FOR A MULTIPURPOSE FLUID EXTRACTION DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSTICS AND METHOD OF USE | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 97d overdue |
| 17859877 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR RESPIRATORY DISEASE TESTING CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS | TURK, NEIL N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18199199 | APPARATUS FOR A MULTIPURPOSE FLUID EXTRACTION DEVICE FOR DIAGNOSTICS AND METHOD OF USE | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18000818 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTONIC CHIP COUPLING | THOMASON, DARBY MARGARET | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17859877 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR RESPIRATORY DISEASE TESTING CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSiphox Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Samuel Chong Kim has the most, with 1 of Siphox Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
