Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Alarm.com Incorporated

11 pending office actions • 11 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (2)

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.

1
Hard (9%)
10
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§103 only8 (73%)
§102 only1 (9%)
Double-patenting + other1 (9%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
27% of docket
5
Communications
45% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POPE, DARYL C 1 85.4% +6.4%
POINT, RUFUS C 1 74.1% +18.4%
KORSAK, OLEG 1 85.6% +8.4%
NASRI, MARYAM A 1 73.4% +2.9%
PALL, CHARLES J 1 54.7% +16.1%
AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O 1 83.1% +7.0%
BEG, SAMAH A 1 78.7% +29.6%
KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 1 72.6% +46.6%
BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 1 63.8% +43.3%
JEN, MINGJEN 1 80.1% +13.6%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18637119 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING AN ALARM DURING A SENSOR JAMMING ATTACK AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O 22d
18795254 PIN VERIFICATION KORSAK, OLEG 75d
17952937 EXEMPLAR ROBOT LOCALIZATION JEN, MINGJEN

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
19022116 HANDLING DURESS INPUT POPE, DARYL C 28d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18215946 DISAGGREGATION OF WATER CONSUMPTION DATA KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 280d overdue
18133063 FIXED PROPERTY MONITORING WITH MOVING ASSET LOCATION TRACKING BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 8d overdue
18650451 DRONE FIRST RESPONDER ASSISTANCE PALL, CHARLES J 5d
18999096 LOCATION BASED ALERTS POINT, RUFUS C 6d
18625311 FACE CONCEALMENT DETECTION BEG, SAMAH A 27d
17952937 EXEMPLAR ROBOT LOCALIZATION JEN, MINGJEN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2686 1
2689 1
2492 1
2483 1
3663 1
2649 1
2676 1
2857 1
2685 1
3657 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19022116 HANDLING DURESS INPUT POPE, DARYL C 2686 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 15, 2025
18999096 LOCATION BASED ALERTS POINT, RUFUS C 2689 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 23, 2024
18795254 PIN VERIFICATION KORSAK, OLEG 2492 DPOther Final Rejection 75d Pending Aug 06, 2024
18772652 DRONE PRE-SURVEILLANCE NASRI, MARYAM A 2483 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18650451 DRONE FIRST RESPONDER ASSISTANCE PALL, CHARLES J 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18637119 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING AN ALARM DURING A SENSOR JAMMING ATTACK AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O 2649 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18625311 FACE CONCEALMENT DETECTION BEG, SAMAH A 2676 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18215946 DISAGGREGATION OF WATER CONSUMPTION DATA KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 280d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18133063 FIXED PROPERTY MONITORING WITH MOVING ASSET LOCATION TRACKING BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2023
17952937 EXEMPLAR ROBOT LOCALIZATION JEN, MINGJEN 3657 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2022
17373032 ENERGY REDUCTION ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R 2119 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2021

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