Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Widex A/S

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

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

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
25% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARK, EVELYN GRACE 1 54.2% +45.8%
GBLENDE, JEFFREY A 1 85.5% +8.8%
WALKER, OLIVIA 1 28.6% +0.0%
FALEY, KATHERINE A 1 65.4% +45.5%

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
18283623 AN EAR LEVEL AUDIO DEVICE AND A METHOD OF OPERATING AN EAR LEVEL AUDIO DEVICE GBLENDE, JEFFREY A 197d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18272946 A METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN EARLY WARNING SCORE BY MEANS OF A WEARABLE SYSTEM COMPRISING AN EAR-WORN DEVICE WALKER, OLIVIA 79d overdue

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
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 1
2838 1
3796 1
2693 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18286882 METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AN AUDIOGRAM FOR A SPECIFIC USER PARK, EVELYN GRACE 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 13, 2023
18283623 AN EAR LEVEL AUDIO DEVICE AND A METHOD OF OPERATING AN EAR LEVEL AUDIO DEVICE GBLENDE, JEFFREY A 2838 §103 Final Rejection 197d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18272946 A METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN EARLY WARNING SCORE BY MEANS OF A WEARABLE SYSTEM COMPRISING AN EAR-WORN DEVICE WALKER, OLIVIA 3796 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
17051880 HEARING AID WITH INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT FALEY, KATHERINE A 2693 §103 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2020

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