Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
You Tune Hearing Protection LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that each of the company's active applications is being reviewed by a different person in a different administrative group. This distribution requires a separate approach for each filing, as there is no overlap in the personnel handling the cases.
PHILLIPS, FORREST M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the hearing protection technology may involve different technical aspects that fall under separate classifications. Practitioners should manage these 2 pending office actions as independent projects, as the results and examiner feedback from one are unlikely to directly impact the other.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 1 | 83.2% | +14.2% |
| STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 1 | 63.6% | +19.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003523 | HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003523 | HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | — |
| 18341288 | HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003523 | HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18341288 | HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialYou Tune Hearing Protection LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Forrest M Phillips has the most, with 1 of You Tune Hearing Protection LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
