Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sonova AG has 8 pending office actions in Communications. The record spans 8 examiners and 5 art units, indicating that each pending matter is assigned to a separate examiner while some art-unit specialization is repeated across the portfolio.
SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since the supplied examiner assignments do not show concentration in one individual, counsel should use consistent Communications terminology and maintain matter-specific strategies for each art unit.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 1 | 76.0% | +6.6% |
| YU, NORMAN | 1 | 87.5% | +14.0% |
| ANWAH, OLISA | 1 | 89.0% | +4.7% |
| AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S | 1 | 77.7% | +11.7% |
| MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 1 | 75.4% | +7.1% |
| ZHU, QIN | 1 | 87.5% | +3.3% |
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +58.4% |
| MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 1 | 78.3% | +10.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19016676 | Charging arrangement for charging a hearing aid | ANWAH, OLISA | — |
| 18924292 | Method and system for streaming a multichannel audio signal to a binaural hearing system | ZHU, QIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099699 | Hearing Device, Hearing Device-Based Systems and Methods for Monitoring Glucose | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 36d overdue |
| 18439901 | Hearing Devices, Systems, and Methods for Measuring a Core Body Temperature of a User | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 26d |
| 19018757 | RECEIVER FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT | YU, NORMAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099699 | Hearing Device, Hearing Device-Based Systems and Methods for Monitoring Glucose | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 36d overdue |
| 18439901 | Hearing Devices, Systems, and Methods for Measuring a Core Body Temperature of a User | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 26d |
| 19018757 | RECEIVER FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT | YU, NORMAN | — |
| 18978112 | DETERMINING ACOUSTIC MASS OF EARPIECE WITH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM | AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072203 | COMPACT ACOUSTIC DEVICE WITH ADAPTABLE FREQUENCY CONTROL | SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19018757 | RECEIVER FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT | YU, NORMAN | 2693 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19016676 | Charging arrangement for charging a hearing aid | ANWAH, OLISA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18978112 | DETERMINING ACOUSTIC MASS OF EARPIECE WITH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM | AL AUBAIDI, RASHA S | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18932197 | Method and system for providing assistive listening | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18924292 | Method and system for streaming a multichannel audio signal to a binaural hearing system | ZHU, QIN | 2691 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18439901 | Hearing Devices, Systems, and Methods for Measuring a Core Body Temperature of a User | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18099699 | Hearing Device, Hearing Device-Based Systems and Methods for Monitoring Glucose | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 3791 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSonova AG has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 8 examiners.
Edgardo San Martin has the most, with 1 of Sonova AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
