Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Interacoustics A/S has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, all of whom are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit indicates a very specific technical focus for the portfolio and a high degree of consistency in the examination environment.
CERIONI, DANIEL LEE is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently managing one action for the company. This distribution shows that while the company interacts with multiple examiners, they are all governed by the policies and culture of 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners may find that this simplifies the prosecution strategy, as all pending matters are being reviewed within the same specialized group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 1 | 64.3% | +28.0% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 40.6% | +50.8% |
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.9% | +31.6% |
| BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 1 | 20.0% | +63.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418373 | COMPENSATION FOR THE MIDDLE-EAR IMPEDANCE MISMATCH IN OTOACOUSTIC-EMISSION MEASUREMENTS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 12d |
| 18807303 | INSTRUMENT FOR DETECTING AUDITORY EVOKED NEURAL RESPONSES | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | — |
| 18502107 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A HEARING ABILITY OF A TEST SUBJECT | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | — |
| 17825267 | SPECTRO-TEMPORAL MODULATION DETECTION TEST UNIT | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418373 | COMPENSATION FOR THE MIDDLE-EAR IMPEDANCE MISMATCH IN OTOACOUSTIC-EMISSION MEASUREMENTS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 12d |
| 18807303 | INSTRUMENT FOR DETECTING AUDITORY EVOKED NEURAL RESPONSES | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | — |
| 18502107 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A HEARING ABILITY OF A TEST SUBJECT | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | — |
| 17825267 | SPECTRO-TEMPORAL MODULATION DETECTION TEST UNIT | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807303 | INSTRUMENT FOR DETECTING AUDITORY EVOKED NEURAL RESPONSES | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18418373 | COMPENSATION FOR THE MIDDLE-EAR IMPEDANCE MISMATCH IN OTOACOUSTIC-EMISSION MEASUREMENTS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18502107 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A HEARING ABILITY OF A TEST SUBJECT | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 17825267 | SPECTRO-TEMPORAL MODULATION DETECTION TEST UNIT | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialInteracoustics A/S has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Daniel Lee Cerioni has the most, with 1 of Interacoustics A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
