Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 08, 2026

Oticon Medical A/S

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

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

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.

4
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (17%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting only1 (17%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (67%)

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
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
3
Business / Other
50% 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
HUBER, PAUL W 1 85.1% +9.8%
NI, SUHAN 1 86.6% +13.9%
FISCHER, MARK L 1 67.8% +28.1%
JOHNSON, NICOLE F 1 87.5% +7.2%
LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE 1 33.3% -50.0%
DIETZ, NOE ROBERT 1 0.0% +0.0%

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
18950716 ANTENNA FOR A BONE-ANCHORED HEARING AID NI, SUHAN

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18606512 IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE COMPRISING A WIRELESS TRANSCUTANEOUS LINK JOHNSON, NICOLE F 3d overdue
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
18984332 HEARING AID AND A METHOD FOR ENHANCING AND/OR PROTECTING A USER'S HEARING ABILITY HUBER, PAUL W
18898165 BONE ANCHORED HEARING IMPLANT DEVICE, HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FISCHER, MARK L

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18950716 ANTENNA FOR A BONE-ANCHORED HEARING AID NI, SUHAN
18898165 BONE ANCHORED HEARING IMPLANT DEVICE, HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD FISCHER, MARK L

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2692 1
3796 1
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18984332 HEARING AID AND A METHOD FOR ENHANCING AND/OR PROTECTING A USER'S HEARING ABILITY HUBER, PAUL W §102§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 17, 2024
18950716 ANTENNA FOR A BONE-ANCHORED HEARING AID NI, SUHAN DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 18, 2024
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 §102§103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2024
18395131 TRANSCUTANEOUS BONE-ANCHORED HEARING AID WITH IMPROVED PACKAGING LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
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

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