Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
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.
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.
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.
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 | 3 (25%) |
| §103 only | 5 (42%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2481 | 2 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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