Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ear Physics LLC has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, NGUYEN, TUAN DUC, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The matter is located within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current efforts are focused on this single pending action, which represents the entirety of its active prosecution workload. This highly centralized structure means that the company's immediate success in the communications sector depends on its interaction with NGUYEN, TUAN DUC. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical requirements and procedural preferences of this examiner.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's innovation is focused on a specific niche within the communications field. With only 1 pending office action, there are no broader trends or multiple examiner perspectives to manage. NGUYEN, TUAN DUC is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's work, making him the busiest examiner by default. This profile is ideal for a targeted legal strategy where all resources can be directed toward resolving a single set of rejections. The company can benefit from the consistency provided by a single examiner and a single art unit. This focused approach is typical for smaller portfolios or highly specialized technology companies.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (100%) |
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, TUAN DUC | 1 | 82.9% | +16.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893537 | ADAPTIVE HEARING NORMALIZATION AND CORRECTION SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC TUNING | NGUYEN, TUAN DUC | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893537 | ADAPTIVE HEARING NORMALIZATION AND CORRECTION SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC TUNING | NGUYEN, TUAN DUC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2699 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18893537 | ADAPTIVE HEARING NORMALIZATION AND CORRECTION SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC TUNING | NGUYEN, TUAN DUC | 2699 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEar Physics LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tuan Duc Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Ear Physics LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
