Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
GN Audio A/S is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current prosecution workload is spread across several individuals, with the number of pending office actions being equal to the number of distinct examiners and the number of distinct art units.
The busiest examiner for the company is NGUYEN, QUYNH H, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing exactly 1 matter. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that each of the company's patent filings in Communications is being reviewed by a different technical group at the USPTO. This spread across 3 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to different examiner styles while navigating multiple specialized departments within the patent office.
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 | 3 (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, QUYNH H | 1 | 87.4% | +16.9% |
| NGUYEN, DUC MINH | 1 | 26.0% | +13.1% |
| ZHU, RICHARD Z | 1 | 69.3% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18641820 | EARTIP | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 29d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334119 | HEADSET WITH CAPACITIVE SENSOR | NGUYEN, DUC MINH | 46d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18641820 | EARTIP | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 29d |
| 18334119 | HEADSET WITH CAPACITIVE SENSOR | NGUYEN, DUC MINH | 46d |
| 17531861 | SYSTEM WITH SPEAKER REPRESENTATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18641820 | EARTIP | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18334119 | HEADSET WITH CAPACITIVE SENSOR | NGUYEN, DUC MINH | 2691 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17531861 | SYSTEM WITH SPEAKER REPRESENTATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialGN Audio A/S has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Quynh H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of GN Audio A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
