Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Knowles Electronics LLC

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
3
Communications
60% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ELAHEE, MD S 1 79.3% +27.2%
MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 1 85.0% +14.0%
ROBINSON, RYAN C 1 78.2% +14.5%
YUSHINA, GALINA G 1 79.1% +16.9%
CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A 1 41.5% +4.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18608852 Hearing Device with Multicoil Balanced Armature Receiver MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 21d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18398900 HEARING DEVICE COMPONENT WITH ELECTRICAL CABLE OR SOUND TUBE ROBINSON, RYAN C 112d overdue
18734549 EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ELAHEE, MD S 15d
18608852 Hearing Device with Multicoil Balanced Armature Receiver MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 21d
18480218 PRESSURE VALVE FOR MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM DIE YUSHINA, GALINA G 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2694 3
2811 1
2815 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18734549 EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ELAHEE, MD S 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 05, 2024
18608852 Hearing Device with Multicoil Balanced Armature Receiver MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 18, 2024
18398900 HEARING DEVICE COMPONENT WITH ELECTRICAL CABLE OR SOUND TUBE ROBINSON, RYAN C 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2023
18480218 PRESSURE VALVE FOR MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM DIE YUSHINA, GALINA G 2811 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 03, 2023
17936931 Spring Supported and Sealed MEMS Diaphragm Assembly CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 30, 2022

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