Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Widex A/S currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, with NGUYEN, QUYNH H designated as the busiest examiner. The busiest examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This ratio between examiners and actions suggests a diversified review process for the company's 3 pending office actions.
The workload is divided between 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the pending office actions cover different technical niches within the Communications field. The use of multiple examiners for the pending office actions ensures that each matter is receiving individual attention from a different official. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific preferences of the examiners across the 2 distinct art units currently engaged with the portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 1 | 87.4% | +17.1% |
| PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 1 | 51.6% | +40.5% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.3% | +45.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286882 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AN AUDIOGRAM FOR A SPECIFIC USER | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 21d |
| 18869430 | A HEARING AID SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF OPERATING A HEARING AID SYSTEM | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17051880 | HEARING AID WITH INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 125d overdue |
| 18286882 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AN AUDIOGRAM FOR A SPECIFIC USER | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 21d |
| 18869430 | A HEARING AID SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF OPERATING A HEARING AID SYSTEM | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 2 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869430 | A HEARING AID SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF OPERATING A HEARING AID SYSTEM | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 2693 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18286882 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AN AUDIOGRAM FOR A SPECIFIC USER | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 17051880 | HEARING AID WITH INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 125d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2020 |
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