Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verkada Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination settings for each pending matter.
SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use a matter-specific prosecution strategy, because no examiner or art unit is repeated.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 1 | 89.8% | +7.8% |
| DAO, THUY CHAN | 1 | 88.4% | +11.7% |
| ABDI, AMARA | 1 | 82.9% | -7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624023 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMBINING IMAGES TO DETECT MOVING OBJECTS DEPICTED IN VIDEO CAMERA DATA | ABDI, AMARA | 29d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003777 | PEOPLE AND VEHICLE ANALYTICS ON THE EDGE | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | — |
| 18810150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFTWARE RELEASE MANAGEMENT | DAO, THUY CHAN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18810150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFTWARE RELEASE MANAGEMENT | DAO, THUY CHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003777 | PEOPLE AND VEHICLE ANALYTICS ON THE EDGE | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 3661 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18810150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFTWARE RELEASE MANAGEMENT | DAO, THUY CHAN | 2192 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18624023 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMBINING IMAGES TO DETECT MOVING OBJECTS DEPICTED IN VIDEO CAMERA DATA | ABDI, AMARA | 2668 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVerkada Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Demetra R Smith-Stewart has the most, with 1 of Verkada Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
