Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 5 pending office actions currently under review. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners. Notably, all 5 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's current patent applications are highly focused on a specific technical niche within the medical device sector.
CERIONI, DANIEL LEE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Although 5 distinct examiners are involved, the fact that they all operate within 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent examination environment. Each of the 5 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly one pending action, resulting in a balanced distribution of the company's current prosecution workload at the patent office.
Practitioners should note that while the examiners are distinct, the shared art unit may lead to similar prior art citations or examination styles across the portfolio. Coordinating responses across these 5 pending office actions could be beneficial to maintain consistency in the company's patent claims.
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 | 64.5% | +28.0% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 41.4% | +52.1% |
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.8% | +31.7% |
| 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 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807303 | INSTRUMENT FOR DETECTING AUDITORY EVOKED NEURAL RESPONSES | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | — | §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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