Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oticon Medical A/S manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single matter. NI, SUHAN is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending action.
The portfolio is active across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while the pending office actions are all within the same broad technology area, they are spread across several specialized groups. Practitioners must navigate the specific standards of 3 different art units while dealing with distinct examiners to advance these matters. The lack of examiner concentration, as shown by NI, SUHAN having only 1 pending action, suggests a decentralized prosecution environment. This distribution across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area requires a versatile strategy to address the varied technical subgroups represented by the art units.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NI, SUHAN | 1 | 86.7% | +13.9% |
| FISCHER, MARK L | 1 | 68.1% | +27.9% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.3% |
| DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HONRATH, MARC D | 1 | 73.5% | +33.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606512 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE COMPRISING A WIRELESS TRANSCUTANEOUS LINK | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17965484 | ELECTROMAGNETIC VIBRATOR FOR GENERATING A VIBRATION IN ORDER TO TRANSMIT SOUND THROUGH A BONE OF A SKULL OF A USER TO AN EAR OF THE USER AND A BONE ANCHORED HEARING DEVICE | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 23d |
| 18898165 | BONE ANCHORED HEARING IMPLANT DEVICE, HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | FISCHER, MARK L | — |
| 17670079 | MEDICAL DEVICE | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19175418 | HEARING AID INCLUDING A PIEZO ASSEMBLY AND AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ASSEMBLY | NI, SUHAN | — |
| 18898165 | BONE ANCHORED HEARING IMPLANT DEVICE, HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | FISCHER, MARK L | — |
| 17670079 | MEDICAL DEVICE | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175418 | HEARING AID INCLUDING A PIEZO ASSEMBLY AND AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ASSEMBLY | NI, SUHAN | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18898165 | BONE ANCHORED HEARING IMPLANT DEVICE, HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | FISCHER, MARK L | 2692 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18606512 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE COMPRISING A WIRELESS TRANSCUTANEOUS LINK | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 17965484 | ELECTROMAGNETIC VIBRATOR FOR GENERATING A VIBRATION IN ORDER TO TRANSMIT SOUND THROUGH A BONE OF A SKULL OF A USER TO AN EAR OF THE USER AND A BONE ANCHORED HEARING DEVICE | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17670079 | MEDICAL DEVICE | HONRATH, MARC D | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOticon Medical A/S has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Suhan Ni has the most, with 1 of Oticon Medical A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
