Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Knowles Electronics LLC is currently navigating 6 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, showing that the company's technology spans multiple specialized examination groups. The workload is spread among 6 distinct examiners, ensuring that no individual examiner has a disproportionate impact on the overall portfolio. This diversity in examination requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to different administrative preferences.
The busiest examiner, BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This ratio of examiners to pending actions suggests a wide range of perspectives will be applied to the company's applications. Practitioners must be prepared to tailor their arguments to the specific preferences of different individuals across the various art units. With these pending office actions and 4 distinct art units, the portfolio demonstrates a broad footprint within the communications sector, necessitating a high degree of coordination to maintain consistency across different examination groups.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YU, NORMAN | 2 | 87.6% | +13.9% |
| BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ROBINSON, RYAN C | 1 | 78.4% | +14.4% |
| DANG, JULIE X | 1 | 84.0% | +16.8% |
| ELAHEE, MD S | 1 | 79.2% | +26.9% |
| YUSHINA, GALINA G | 1 | 79.7% | +16.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974274 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS TRANSDUCER WITH DEFLECTION CONSTRAINT | BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER | — |
| 18957083 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH IN-EAR MICROPHONE | DANG, JULIE X | — |
| 18448943 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH REMOVABLE SPEAKER | YU, NORMAN | — |
| 18322182 | ACOUSTIC MICROPHONE WITH INTEGRATED MAGNETIC TRANSDUCER | YU, NORMAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18480218 | PRESSURE VALVE FOR MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM DIE | YUSHINA, GALINA G | 28d |
| 18960376 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH ELECTRICAL CABLE ASSEMBLY OR SOUND TUBE | ROBINSON, RYAN C | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734549 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | ELAHEE, MD S | 15d |
| 18480218 | PRESSURE VALVE FOR MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM DIE | YUSHINA, GALINA G | 28d |
| 18960376 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH ELECTRICAL CABLE ASSEMBLY OR SOUND TUBE | ROBINSON, RYAN C | — |
| 18957083 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH IN-EAR MICROPHONE | DANG, JULIE X | — |
| 18448943 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH REMOVABLE SPEAKER | YU, NORMAN | — |
| 18322182 | ACOUSTIC MICROPHONE WITH INTEGRATED MAGNETIC TRANSDUCER | YU, NORMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 2 |
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2811 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18974274 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS TRANSDUCER WITH DEFLECTION CONSTRAINT | BARBOZA, MARCUS ALEXANDER | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18960376 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH ELECTRICAL CABLE ASSEMBLY OR SOUND TUBE | ROBINSON, RYAN C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18957083 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH IN-EAR MICROPHONE | DANG, JULIE X | 2692 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18734549 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR | ELAHEE, MD S | 2694 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18480218 | PRESSURE VALVE FOR MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM DIE | YUSHINA, GALINA G | 2811 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18448943 | EAR-WORN HEARING DEVICE WITH REMOVABLE SPEAKER | YU, NORMAN | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2023 |
| 18322182 | ACOUSTIC MICROPHONE WITH INTEGRATED MAGNETIC TRANSDUCER | YU, NORMAN | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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