Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sensormatic Electronics LLC operates a company patent portfolio focused on the Communications technology area. The portfolio is currently active with 10 pending office actions, indicating a robust effort to protect the company's technical innovations. This volume of 10 pending office actions suggests a consistent filing strategy aimed at maintaining a strong intellectual property position in the communications field.
The prosecution of these 10 actions is distributed, involving 10 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units. This 10 to 10 ratio between actions and examiners, combined with the high number of 9 distinct art units, indicates an extreme level of diversification. It suggests that the company's patent applications are specialized and cover a wide range of technical sub-fields, each requiring review by a different expert in a different administrative unit.
WANG, JACK K is listed as the busiest examiner for Sensormatic Electronics LLC, with 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 10 total pending office actions, every single pending matter is being handled by a different examiner. This means that the company's prosecution success is decentralized, with the outcome of each of the 10 actions depending on a unique interaction with a different examiner across 9 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 8 (80%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, JACK K | 1 | 61.4% | +12.5% |
| ANDERSON II, JAMES M | 1 | 75.7% | +10.0% |
| MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | 1 | 60.4% | +48.1% |
| KHAN, OMER S | 1 | 55.2% | +40.8% |
| FOXX, CHICO A | 1 | 78.3% | +29.7% |
| DICKERSON, CHAD S | 1 | 62.8% | +23.1% |
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 67.7% | +25.4% |
| TRAN, DUY ANH | 1 | 80.0% | +17.0% |
| WALTON, CHESIREE A | 1 | 31.0% | +29.0% |
| MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 1 | 77.1% | +9.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18311551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSON DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION | TRAN, DUY ANH | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17237330 | METHOD FOR HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING FOR SHRINK PREVENTION SYSTEM | WALTON, CHESIREE A | 2d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELF-CHECKOUT USING SELF-DEACTIVATING TAGS | MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | 45d overdue |
| 17237330 | METHOD FOR HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING FOR SHRINK PREVENTION SYSTEM | WALTON, CHESIREE A | 2d overdue |
| 18311551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSON DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION | TRAN, DUY ANH | 76d |
| 19051024 | ARTICLE SURVEILLANCE TAG | WANG, JACK K | — |
| 18904879 | PERSON-OF-INTEREST (POI) DETECTION | ANDERSON II, JAMES M | — |
| 18579763 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING JAMMING BETWEEN TAG READERS | KHAN, OMER S | — |
| 18579589 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AND USING ELECTRONIC TAG MOTION | FOXX, CHICO A | — |
| 18577106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARSING SENSOR DATA TO PROVIDE CONTEXTUAL DATA FOR A SECURITY EVENT | DICKERSON, CHAD S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2425 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19051024 | ARTICLE SURVEILLANCE TAG | WANG, JACK K | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18904879 | PERSON-OF-INTEREST (POI) DETECTION | ANDERSON II, JAMES M | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18275576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELF-CHECKOUT USING SELF-DEACTIVATING TAGS | MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18579763 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING JAMMING BETWEEN TAG READERS | KHAN, OMER S | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18579589 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AND USING ELECTRONIC TAG MOTION | FOXX, CHICO A | 2685 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18577106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARSING SENSOR DATA TO PROVIDE CONTEXTUAL DATA FOR A SECURITY EVENT | DICKERSON, CHAD S | 2683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18335840 | REFERENCE POINT FOR CONFIGURING AN OBJECT COUNTER | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18311551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSON DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION | TRAN, DUY ANH | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 17237330 | METHOD FOR HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING FOR SHRINK PREVENTION SYSTEM | WALTON, CHESIREE A | 3624 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2021 |
| 15967997 | Video Display System for Video Surveillance | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2018 |
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