Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Genetec Inc.

11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 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%)
8
Medium (73%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (18%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§103 only8 (73%)
No statute on record2 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
8
Information Tech
73% of docket
1
Communications
9% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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
ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 2 58.8% +21.7%
LE, PETER D 1 80.2% +16.8%
BROWN, ANTHONY D 1 85.3% +15.2%
ABEDIN, SHANTO 1 87.2% +23.5%
NAHAR, SAYEDA S 1 74.2% +21.8%
TEKLE, DANIEL T 1 63.4% -6.7%
HUANG, DAVID S 1 86.8% +15.4%
HUANG, CHENG-FENG 1 87.4% +17.4%
HENNING, MATTHEW T 1 70.9% +18.9%
TOPGYAL, GELEK W 1 58.9% +18.7%

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
18849566 POWER ALLOCATION IN A DATA AND POWER NETWORK HUANG, DAVID S 43d overdue
18933037 PERMISSIONS MANAGEMENT FOR A SECURITY SYSTEM ABEDIN, SHANTO 56d
18932936 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENROLLING TARGET DEVICES WITH A SECURITY DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BROWN, ANTHONY D 77d

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
17076323 Systems and methods for overtime parking violation detection ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 41d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18849566 POWER ALLOCATION IN A DATA AND POWER NETWORK HUANG, DAVID S 43d overdue
18930663 ENROLLMENT OF SECURITY DEVICES NAHAR, SAYEDA S 17d overdue
18797946 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING DATA FROM A CHAIN DATA STRUCTURE HUANG, CHENG-FENG 20d
19000832 SYSTEM TO DISPATCH VIDEO DECODING TO DEDICATED HARDWARE RESOURCES LE, PETER D 21d
18383838 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A PHYSICAL SECURITY TOKEN HENNING, MATTHEW T 28d
18493473 DYNAMIC PRIVACY PROTECTION FROM A CALIBRATED CAMERA SYSTEM TOPGYAL, GELEK W 34d
17076323 Systems and methods for overtime parking violation detection ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 41d
18933037 PERMISSIONS MANAGEMENT FOR A SECURITY SYSTEM ABEDIN, SHANTO 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2481 2
3668 2
2488 1
2408 1
2494 1
2435 1
2631 1
2497 1
2491 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19000832 SYSTEM TO DISPATCH VIDEO DECODING TO DEDICATED HARDWARE RESOURCES LE, PETER D 2488 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 24, 2024
18932936 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENROLLING TARGET DEVICES WITH A SECURITY DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BROWN, ANTHONY D 2408 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18933037 PERMISSIONS MANAGEMENT FOR A SECURITY SYSTEM ABEDIN, SHANTO 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18930663 ENROLLMENT OF SECURITY DEVICES NAHAR, SAYEDA S 2435 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2024
18917149 STORAGE MANAGEMENT FOR A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TEKLE, DANIEL T 2481 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Oct 16, 2024
18849566 POWER ALLOCATION IN A DATA AND POWER NETWORK HUANG, DAVID S 2631 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2024
18797946 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING DATA FROM A CHAIN DATA STRUCTURE HUANG, CHENG-FENG 2497 Other Non-Final OA 20d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18383838 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A PHYSICAL SECURITY TOKEN HENNING, MATTHEW T 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18493473 DYNAMIC PRIVACY PROTECTION FROM A CALIBRATED CAMERA SYSTEM TOPGYAL, GELEK W 2481 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 24, 2023
18319210 Systems and Methods for Shared Parking Permit Violation Detection ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 3668 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending May 17, 2023
17076323 Systems and methods for overtime parking violation detection ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 3668 §101 Final Rejection 41d Pending Oct 21, 2020

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