Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
244 pending office actions • 28 clients • 216 examiners • 126 art units • 28 of 244 (11%) have an AI response strategy ready
STAAS & HALSEY LLP has 240 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 36,615 career applications. The figures indicate a large active response workload and an extensive application record in the listed technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 85.43%, with an average of 3.67 office actions per allowance. The rate addresses outcomes among resolved matters, while the action average describes the recorded examination effort associated with matters reaching allowance.
For patent practitioners, the profile supports a broad review of capacity and historical prosecution behavior. The pending docket is relevant to resource planning, while the application total and resolution measures provide context for the overall record. The figures do not identify client mix, claim complexity, examiner effects, or the procedural reasons behind individual office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 52 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. 52 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 | 10 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 18 (7%) |
| §103 only | 81 (33%) |
| §102 only | 20 (8%) |
| §112 only | 13 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (0%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 96 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, NGOC T | 4 | 83.7% | +19.1% |
| BABAA, NAEL N | 3 | 77.1% | +3.9% |
| BUI, DUNG H | 3 | 77.8% | +25.5% |
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 2 | 75.0% | -15.6% |
| SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | 2 | 82.9% | +10.9% |
| WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 2 | 70.3% | +18.8% |
| DELA ROSA-FRIO, JACOB ETHAN | 2 | — | — |
| MARONEY, JENNA M | 2 | 64.6% | +20.1% |
| CONNOLLY, MARK A | 2 | 82.1% | +9.1% |
| SATTI, HUMAM M | 2 | 63.7% | +17.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975184 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SIGNAL CORRELATION | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | — |
| 18646131 | CLOTHES DRYER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, NGOC T | — |
| 18204609 | ELECTRIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CONNOLLY, MARK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18406990 | DUST SEPARATION DEVICE AND CLEANER INCLUDING SAME | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 46d overdue |
| 19225439 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH PANEL | DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 31d overdue |
| 18825420 | MIRROR DISPLAY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | AWAD, AMR A | 28d overdue |
| 18625643 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED RISK AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM | TIEDEMAN, JASON S | 16d overdue |
| 18478042 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A SCORE FOR A SLEEP QUALITY COMPONENT | ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M | 9d overdue |
| 18184935 | PARKING ASSISTANCE METHOD FOR A DRIVE WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE, PARKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, MOBILE PORTABLE TERMINAL, SERVER DEVICE AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ | 5d overdue |
| 18101204 | ASSET MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD | KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE | 3d overdue |
| 18625430 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 2d 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897613 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | SATTI, HUMAM M | 39d |
| 18972216 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COLOR CALIBRATION METHOD THEROF | SATTI, HUMAM M | 40d |
| 18379459 | REFRIGERATOR | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 62d |
| 19060044 | OPTICAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND OPTICAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | — |
| 19052803 | REFRIGERATOR | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | — |
| 19020259 | REFRIGERATOR | MARONEY, JENNA M | — |
| 18975184 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SIGNAL CORRELATION | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | — |
| 18925360 | AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR PURIFIER INCLUDING ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR | BUI, DUNG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 16 |
| 3723 | 11 |
| 3762 | 9 |
| 3799 | 6 |
| 3637 | 5 |
| 2635 | 5 |
| 2634 | 5 |
| 3761 | 5 |
| 2882 | 4 |
| 2119 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19320669 | Untitled | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CRAWLEY, KEITH L | 2626 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19568176 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DRIVING PIXEL, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | JANSEN II, MICHAEL J | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2026 |
| 19381955 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY MODULE AND ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19353062 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | HOANG, KEN | 2168 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19332822 | Driver assistance method, control device, motor vehicle, storage medium, and server device for operation in the Internet | Audi AG | VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | 3666 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19327307 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KHALID, OMER | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 19324707 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR CONTENT PLAYBACK AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KIM, WILLIAM JW | 2409 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19310524 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SNIDER, SCOTT | 3621 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19297734 | IMAGING DEVICE INCLUDING AN IMAGING ELEMENT, A MOUNT, AND MEMBERS | Nikon Corporation | CALDERON, CYNTHIA | 2639 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19296218 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | Fsas Technologies Inc. | GIBSON, JONATHAN D | 2113 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19293855 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CHOWDHURY, SUMAIYA A | 2421 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19279427 | ELEMENT, SYSTEM HAVING THE ELEMENT, AND JUDGING APPARATUS | Nikon Corporation | CHIU, WESLEY JASON | 2639 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19279709 | BANKNOTE CONVEYING APPARATUS, BANKNOTE CONVEYING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION PROCESSING COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Fujitsu Frontech Systems Limited | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 3653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19261566 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | DHARIA, PRABODH M | 2629 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19251003 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COATED TUBULAR MEMBER HAVING AMORPHOUS CARBON DEPOSITION FILM FORMED ON INNER SURF ACE OF TUBULAR MEMBER | National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education And Research System | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19246307 | REFRIGERATOR FOAMING APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19141887 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT SETTINGS ON AT LEAST ONE FIRST ACTUATOR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, METHOD FOR ENABLING SETTINGS TO BE CHANGED, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | Audi AG | REAGAN, JAMES A | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19230846 | Method for actuating at least one system component of a system according to surroundings information generated by the system | Audi AG | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 3661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19228089 | BALL BEARING | Ntn Corporation | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19225439 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH PANEL | Fcl Components Limited | DAVIS, DAVID DONALD | 2627 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19214754 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | TAYLOR, NICHOLAS R | 2443 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19207538 | MOLD APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19197633 | STAND AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19098184 | GLASS MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, GLASS, OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND GLASS MANUFACTURING METHOD | Nikon Corporation | HERRING, LISA L | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19087990 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CHAT SERVICE | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | BATURAY, ALICIA | 2453 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19088352 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. | THOMAS, LUCY M | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19086969 | DISPLAY AND DISPLAY METHOD | Toppan Inc. | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| 19082410 | COOKING APPLIANCE THAT PROVIDES TIME-LAPSE VIDEO AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | ADAMS, EILEEN M | 2481 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | AI Ready | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19112081 | CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | Audi AG | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | 3655 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19078403 | CLOTHES DRYER | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 3637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19075945 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19069868 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MATCHING PROJECTION SCREEN WITH SOUND IMAGE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | NI, SUHAN | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19068527 | SPEAKER APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | JOSHI, SUNITA | 2691 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19059613 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER AND OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER | Fujitsu Limited | KRETZER, CASEY L | 2635 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19060044 | OPTICAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND OPTICAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD | Fujitsu Limited | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | 2634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19053684 | DISPLAY SYSTEM | Audi AG | WEISFELD, MATTHIAS S | 3661 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19052955 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | SIDDO, IBRAHIM | 2681 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19052803 | REFRIGERATOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 3637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19099707 | Mask | Koken Ltd. | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19034378 | REFRIGERATOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19029318 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19028887 | OPTICAL RECEPTION DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECEPTION METHOD | Fujitsu Limited | BARUA, PRANESH K | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 | |
| 19027035 | DEVICE FOR INTERACTION WITH A USER IN A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | Audi AG | LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY | 2622 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025307 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING ANALOG CHARACTERISTIC OF OPTICAL TRANSMITTER, AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER | Fujitsu Limited | DELA ROSA-FRIO, JACOB ETHAN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 19021787 | AIR CONDITIONER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 3763 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19022650 | REFRIGERATOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | 2117 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19022775 | MATCHING SUPPORT DEVICE, MATCHING SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | Needstomatch Corporation | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | 3688 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19022283 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | REFAI, SAM M | 3621 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19020259 | REFRIGERATOR | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | MARONEY, JENNA M | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19020206 | ENAMELABLE STEEL SHEET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | Voestalpine Stahl GmbH | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial85.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Staas & Halsey LLP were allowed, across 36,615 applications in USPTO records.
3.67 office actions per allowed application on average.
244 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 28 clients, before 216 examiners in 126 art units.
