Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verkada Inc. holds 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
The portfolio is split evenly, as distinct examiners are each managing a portion of the 2 pending office actions. Because there are 2 distinct art units, each pending matter is being reviewed in a different technical section of the patent office. This structure suggests that the company's current filings in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area cover distinct technical sub-categories, requiring a varied approach to prosecution.
SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R accounts for 1 pending office action, representing half of the current workload. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage separate prosecution timelines and sets of examiner preferences. The pending office actions are distributed such that no single examiner or art unit dominates the portfolio, providing a balanced but fragmented prosecution landscape for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 | 89.7% | +7.8% |
| ABDI, AMARA | 1 | 83.0% | -7.3% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003777 | PEOPLE AND VEHICLE ANALYTICS ON THE EDGE | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 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 |
| 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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