Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
6 pending office actions • 4 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 manages 7 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These 7 actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, indicating that the company's networking technologies are being evaluated by several different specialized groups at the USPTO. The prosecution is handled by 6 distinct examiners, providing a diverse range of perspectives on the pending applications.
The busiest examiner, TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER, is assigned 2 pending office actions. The other 5 pending actions are each handled by a different examiner among the 6 distinct examiners involved. For a practitioner, this distribution means that while TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER has the most significant individual impact, the portfolio's success is largely determined by 5 other individuals. The 5 distinct art units suggest that the 7 pending actions cover a broad technical scope within Networking & Security. Practitioners must tailor their arguments to the specific standards of these 5 different units while managing the 6 distinct examiner relationships.
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 | 72.9% | +24.7% |
| LA, ANH V | 1 | 84.6% | +13.8% |
| WALKER, JARED T | 1 | 84.6% | +9.8% |
| GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 1 | 61.4% | +17.6% |
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 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193085 | DOORBELL COMMUNITIES | BECKER, JOSEPH W | — | §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 | — | §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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