Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Oticon A/S

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (1)

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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

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
6
Communications
100% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOSHI, SUNITA 1 80.8% +6.1%
BRINEY III, WALTER F 1 65.4% +5.2%
NGUYEN, QUYNH H 1 87.4% +17.0%
NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 1 82.5% +17.1%
KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 1 81.4% +7.3%
ZHAI, KYLE 1 74.5% +18.4%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18732872 HEARING DEVICE COMPRISING A DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO ADAPTIVELY OPTIMIZE SOUND FROM MULTIPLE TARGET POSITIONS NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 3d overdue
18739369 FLEXIBLE CONNECTING DEVICE FOR A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY OF A HEARING AID NGUYEN, QUYNH H 9d
18644164 Providing optimal audiology based on users listening intent KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 19d
18821678 ASSEMBLY FOR HEARING AID JOSHI, SUNITA 28d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18732872 HEARING DEVICE COMPRISING A DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO ADAPTIVELY OPTIMIZE SOUND FROM MULTIPLE TARGET POSITIONS NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 3d overdue
18739369 FLEXIBLE CONNECTING DEVICE FOR A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY OF A HEARING AID NGUYEN, QUYNH H 9d
18640524 SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY SIGNALS ZHAI, KYLE 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2691 1
2692 1
2693 1
2699 1
2694 1
2611 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18821678 ASSEMBLY FOR HEARING AID JOSHI, SUNITA 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18795233 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ADJUSTING AUDIO SOURCES OF A BINAURAL HEARING AID SYSTEM BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Aug 06, 2024
18739369 FLEXIBLE CONNECTING DEVICE FOR A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY OF A HEARING AID NGUYEN, QUYNH H 2693 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 11, 2024
18732872 HEARING DEVICE COMPRISING A DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO ADAPTIVELY OPTIMIZE SOUND FROM MULTIPLE TARGET POSITIONS NGUYEN, TUAN DUC 2699 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18644164 Providing optimal audiology based on users listening intent KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18640524 SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY SIGNALS ZHAI, KYLE 2611 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Apr 19, 2024

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