Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Facetec Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating that at least one examiner handles more than one pending matter and that the work is grouped across the same number of art units.
ABEDIN, SHANTO is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner handles most of the workload, making consistency across those responses important. The remaining matter has a different examiner assignment and should be evaluated on its own record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABEDIN, SHANTO | 2 | 87.3% | +23.1% |
| ROSARIO, DENNIS | 1 | 68.7% | +29.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19030792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ENCODED DATA AND USE OF SAME | ABEDIN, SHANTO | — |
| 18990177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER VERIFICATION | ABEDIN, SHANTO | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627393 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ENCODED DATA AND USE OF SAME FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATION | ROSARIO, DENNIS | 12d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627393 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ENCODED DATA AND USE OF SAME FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATION | ROSARIO, DENNIS | 12d |
| 19030792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ENCODED DATA AND USE OF SAME | ABEDIN, SHANTO | — |
| 18990177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER VERIFICATION | ABEDIN, SHANTO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2494 | 2 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19030792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ENCODED DATA AND USE OF SAME | ABEDIN, SHANTO | 2494 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18990177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER VERIFICATION | ABEDIN, SHANTO | 2494 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18627393 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ENCODED DATA AND USE OF SAME FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATION | ROSARIO, DENNIS | 2676 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFacetec Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Shanto Abedin has the most, with 2 of Facetec Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
