Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Skybell Technologies Ip LLC currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of prosecution efforts. TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions.
The presence of 5 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions suggests that most individuals are handling a single matter, while TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER manages 2. This concentration represents the only instance of multiple actions assigned to a single person. The 5 distinct art units involved show that the portfolio is spread across several administrative groups within the patent office rather than being centralized.
Practitioners should monitor the specific tendencies of TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER, as this examiner handles a larger portion of the portfolio than any other individual. The distribution across 5 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for varied procedural environments. Success in these 6 pending office actions will depend on navigating these diverse examiner and unit-level perspectives effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 2 | 82.7% | +10.2% |
| BECKER, JOSEPH W | 1 | 73.1% | +24.4% |
| LA, ANH V | 1 | 84.6% | +13.9% |
| WALKER, JARED T | 1 | 84.7% | +9.8% |
| GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 1 | 61.7% | +17.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024288 | DOORBELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WALKER, JARED T | 34d |
| 19179679 | DOORBELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
| 19062705 | MULTI-MODE DOORBELL | LA, ANH V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19106959 | EXTERNAL POWER SYSTEMS FOR OUTDOOR SECURITY SYSTEMS | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17950982 | LIGHT SOCKET SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 9d |
| 19193085 | DOORBELL COMMUNITIES | BECKER, JOSEPH W | — |
| 19179679 | DOORBELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
| 19106959 | EXTERNAL POWER SYSTEMS FOR OUTDOOR SECURITY SYSTEMS | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
| 19062705 | MULTI-MODE DOORBELL | LA, ANH V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 2 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193085 | DOORBELL COMMUNITIES | BECKER, JOSEPH W | 2483 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19179679 | DOORBELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 2689 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19106959 | EXTERNAL POWER SYSTEMS FOR OUTDOOR SECURITY SYSTEMS | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 2689 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19062705 | MULTI-MODE DOORBELL | LA, ANH V | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19024288 | DOORBELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 17950982 | LIGHT SOCKET SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 2485 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSkybell Technologies Ip LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
John Alexander Tweel Jr. has the most, with 2 of Skybell Technologies Ip LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
