Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ws Audiology A/S has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, giving each application a separate examination path.
ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use a common technical framework while tailoring prosecution decisions to the individual examiner and art-unit record.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM | 1 | 14.3% | +0.0% |
| MEI, XU | 1 | 85.4% | +6.0% |
| EASON, MATTHEW A | 1 | 75.1% | +21.4% |
| NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 1 | 87.4% | +16.9% |
| PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 1 | 51.6% | +40.5% |
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 1 | 65.5% | +45.4% |
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.
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286882 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AN AUDIOGRAM FOR A SPECIFIC USER | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 21d |
| 19482808 | METHOD OF REPAIRING A HEARING AID AND A HEARING AID REPAIR SYSTEM | ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM | — |
| 19121268 | ELECTRONIC SOUND RECORDING DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR HEARING INSTRUMENT | EASON, MATTHEW A | — |
| 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 4 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 |
| 19121268 | ELECTRONIC SOUND RECORDING DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR HEARING INSTRUMENT | EASON, MATTHEW A | — |
| 18869430 | A HEARING AID SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF OPERATING A HEARING AID SYSTEM | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 2 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2624 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19482808 | METHOD OF REPAIRING A HEARING AID AND A HEARING AID REPAIR SYSTEM | ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19123251 | BACK-VENTING EARPIECE | MEI, XU | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19121268 | ELECTRONIC SOUND RECORDING DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR HEARING INSTRUMENT | EASON, MATTHEW A | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 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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Start Free TrialWs Audiology A/S has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Victor Chigozirim Esonu has the most, with 1 of Ws Audiology A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
