Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 12 (92%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSHI, SUNITA | 1 | 80.8% | +6.1% |
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 1 | 87.4% | +17.0% |
| DIAZ, SABRINA | 1 | 73.8% | +23.3% |
| RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 1 | 73.7% | +45.5% |
| MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 1 | 74.8% | +7.7% |
| TOTH, KAREN E | 1 | 46.6% | +25.0% |
| NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 1 | 79.2% | +25.0% |
| KAMARA, MOHAMED A | 1 | 89.1% | +8.9% |
| BRINEY III, WALTER F | 1 | 65.4% | +5.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599358 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING SYSTEM, HEARING SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE PRODUCT | KAMARA, MOHAMED A | 4d overdue |
| 18823992 | METHOD FOR DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR A HEARING SYSTEM | JOSHI, SUNITA | 23d |
| 18740762 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE, AND HEARING DEVICE | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334506 | HEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE PULSE OF A PERSON BY USING A HEARING SYSTEM | NASSER, ROBERT L | 50d overdue |
| 18800310 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOTION DISORDER OF A USER OF A HEAD-WEARABLE DEVICE | ZHANG, LEI | 19d overdue |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675961 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A SMART MOBILE DEVICE, HEARING DEVICE AND HEARING SYSTEM | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 87d overdue |
| 18616258 | MAGNETIC CONNECTOR FOR A GALVANIC CHARGING CONNECTION OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR A HEARING INSTRUMENT, MAGNETIC MATING CONNECTOR, MAGNETIC CONNECTOR SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CHARGER | NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 30d overdue |
| 18619689 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM | TOTH, KAREN E | 9d overdue |
| 18675417 | HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2d overdue |
| 18740762 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE, AND HEARING DEVICE | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 3 |
| 2692 | 3 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2412 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823992 | METHOD FOR DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR A HEARING SYSTEM | JOSHI, SUNITA | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18800310 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOTION DISORDER OF A USER OF A HEAD-WEARABLE DEVICE | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18740762 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE, AND HEARING DEVICE | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18675417 | HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18675961 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A SMART MOBILE DEVICE, HEARING DEVICE AND HEARING SYSTEM | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 87d overdue | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18644393 | HEARING INSTRUMENT AND ASSOCIATED BINAURAL HEARING SYSTEM | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18619689 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE SYSTEM | TOTH, KAREN E | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18616258 | MAGNETIC CONNECTOR FOR A GALVANIC CHARGING CONNECTION OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR A HEARING INSTRUMENT, MAGNETIC MATING CONNECTOR, MAGNETIC CONNECTOR SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CHARGER | NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18599358 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING SYSTEM, HEARING SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE PRODUCT | KAMARA, MOHAMED A | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18417317 | BINAURAL HEARING SYSTEM WITH TWO HEARING INSTRUMENTS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A HEARING SYSTEM | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18409261 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18334506 | HEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE PULSE OF A PERSON BY USING A HEARING SYSTEM | NASSER, ROBERT L | 3992 | §101 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 17884744 | METHOD FOR PREPARING AN AUDIOGRAM OF A TEST SUBJECT BY USE OF A HEARING INSTRUMENT | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
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