US Ear Device Patents for April 2018
By Holly Hosford-Dunn, PhD The Big 6 –soon to be the Big 5— continued patenting hearing aid designs and technologies in April. They were joined in these efforts by South Korean and Swiss companies with challenging names that are new to Hearing Economics. We ask better-informed readers to send us what you know about these…
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US Hearing Device Patents for Q1 2018
We’re likely to see more and more cross-overs between hearing aids and wearables/hearables. … What will the next generation of hearing aids look like?” (Director of Media Relations at Sonova AG quoted in Hip hearing aids as a fashion statement? Audiology Worldnews, April 20 2018) By Holly Hosford-Dunn, PhD Marketing meets up with patents…
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US Hearing Device Patents for November-December 2017
HHTM welcomes back Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn to Hearing Economics this week to bring readers the latest update in her popular patent series that has been tracking patent activity in the hearing industry since 2012 The patent series took a 6 month vacation and resumes today with 73 patents which were awarded in the fourth…
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Improving Hearing Aid Market Penetration through Forward Integration
Editor’s Note: Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) is pleased to post the first column from the new Section Editor of Hearing Economics, Amyn Amlani. If you are a frequent reader of HHTM, it’s likely you have read several guest columns from Amyn, and if you’re an occasional reader who may have missed his previous…
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Relationship between OTC Price and Behavioral Performance: A Guiding Light
by Amyn Amlani, PhD The reality of over-the-counter (OTC) products becoming federally regulated took one step closer to certainty last week. The FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (HR 2430), which includes provisions for OTC hearing aids for adults with perceived mild-to-moderate hearing loss, passed successfully through the US House of Representatives in July 2017…
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