Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
GN Audio A/S currently maintains 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are handled by a matching number of distinct examiners, showing that each pending action is assigned to a different individual at the patent office. The prosecution efforts are spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates a range of technical sub-specialties within the communications field for this portfolio.
MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT is the busiest examiner for GN Audio A/S, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for the matters, the workload is evenly distributed across the examining corps. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's patent applications are being scrutinized by multiple specialized groups rather than a single department.
For patent practitioners, the distribution across multiple art units means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific requirements of different units. The presence of multiple examiners ensures that no single examiner has a disproportionate impact on the portfolio's overall progress at this time.
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 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 1 | 43.3% | +32.1% |
| NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 1 | 87.4% | +17.1% |
| NGUYEN, DUC MINH | 1 | 26.3% | +15.1% |
| ZHU, RICHARD Z | 1 | 69.3% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334119 | HEADSET WITH CAPACITIVE SENSOR | NGUYEN, DUC MINH | 46d |
| 18887076 | AUDIO DEVICE WITH CODEC INFORMATION-BASED PROCESSING, RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | — |
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 4 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 |
| 18887076 | AUDIO DEVICE WITH CODEC INFORMATION-BASED PROCESSING, RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | — |
| 17531861 | SYSTEM WITH SPEAKER REPRESENTATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2654 | 2 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18887076 | AUDIO DEVICE WITH CODEC INFORMATION-BASED PROCESSING, RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 2654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 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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