Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Axis AB

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications

12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 85 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Axis AB currently manages 10 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio demonstrates a high degree of examiner diversity, as the 10 pending actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that prosecution strategies must be tailored to a wide variety of individual examiner preferences rather than a centralized group. This diversity requires a flexible approach to responding to office actions, as no single examiner's past behavior can be used to predict the outcomes of the entire portfolio.

The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units, indicating that the company's intellectual property covers several specialized niches within the broader communications field. LEE, MICHAEL is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he is currently responsible for only 1 pending office action. This low concentration of work with any single official further emphasizes the fragmented nature of the current prosecution landscape for Axis AB. Managing the pending actions across 6 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing a broad technical strategy that requires expertise in multiple sub-sectors of the communications industry.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

6
Hard (50%)
6
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (25%)
§103 only5 (42%)
Double-patenting + other1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
33% of docket
2
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
5
Business / Other
42% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, MICHAEL 1 79.6% +10.0%
SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM 1 80.8% +24.7%
ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE 1 71.7% +38.2%
POTTS, RYAN PATRICK 1 79.4% +39.7%
SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK 1 70.0% +33.3%
CZEKAJ, DAVID J 1 49.8% -7.5%
CHANG, FANG-CHI 1 70.5% -30.1%
TEKLE, DANIEL T 1 63.2% -6.0%
GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE 1 52.2% +33.5%
BENNETT, STUART D 1 69.1% -14.1%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18945164 METHOD AND AN ENCODER FOR INTER-ENCODING AN IMAGE FRAME CZEKAJ, DAVID J 44d overdue
18654409 ENHANCEMENT VIDEO CODING FOR VIDEO MONITORING APPLICATIONS BENNETT, STUART D 11d overdue
18916869 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITALLY SIGNING AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA TEKLE, DANIEL T 21d
18987980 METHOD FOR IMPROVING TRACKING SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM —
18965653 METHOD FOR THERMAL IMAGE PROCESSING ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE —
18956469 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RE-IDENTIFICATION POTTS, RYAN PATRICK —

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
19264964 CAMERA INFORMATION HANDOVER LEE, MICHAEL —
18987980 METHOD FOR IMPROVING TRACKING SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM —
18965653 METHOD FOR THERMAL IMAGE PROCESSING ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE —
18956469 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RE-IDENTIFICATION POTTS, RYAN PATRICK —
18945145 METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR STITCHING IMAGE DATA SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK —
18762342 METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETECTING ONE OR MORE OCCLUDED AREAS OF A SCENE GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2481 2
2616 1
2488 1
2662 1
2175 1
3698 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19264964 CAMERA INFORMATION HANDOVER LEE, MICHAEL — §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2025
18987980 METHOD FOR IMPROVING TRACKING SHARIFF, MICHAEL ADAM — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18965653 METHOD FOR THERMAL IMAGE PROCESSING ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18956469 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RE-IDENTIFICATION POTTS, RYAN PATRICK — §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18945145 METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR STITCHING IMAGE DATA SUO, JOSHUA JUNGWOOK 2616 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 12, 2024
18945164 METHOD AND AN ENCODER FOR INTER-ENCODING AN IMAGE FRAME CZEKAJ, DAVID J 2488 §101§103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18943887 UTILITY BOX CAMERA MOUNT CHANG, FANG-CHI — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 11, 2024
18916869 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITALLY SIGNING AUDIO AND VIDEO DATA TEKLE, DANIEL T 2481 §102§103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 16, 2024
18762342 METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETECTING ONE OR MORE OCCLUDED AREAS OF A SCENE GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE 2662 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2024
18654409 ENHANCEMENT VIDEO CODING FOR VIDEO MONITORING APPLICATIONS BENNETT, STUART D 2481 §103§112 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending May 03, 2024
18616715 MULTIFUNCTIONAL POWER SOURCING EQUIPMENT YEN, PAUL JUEI-FU 2175 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Mar 26, 2024
17870454 SIGNED VIDEO DATA WITH SALTED HASHES DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 3698 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 21, 2022

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