Technology area: Networking & Security
70 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 70 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 81 patents granted in the last 365 days
B1 Institute of Image Technology Inc. has 71 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The portfolio uses 9 distinct examiners across 8 distinct art units, so its examination footprint is concentrated among a limited set of units relative to the total workload.
WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A is the busiest examiner, with 34 pending matters. This is a substantial identified examiner assignment within the portfolio and makes that docket a clear operational priority. Counsel should develop examiner-specific response tracking while maintaining coordination across the other examiners and art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 2 (3%) |
| §103 only | 23 (33%) |
| §102 only | 5 (7%) |
| §112 only | 9 (13%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 6 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 19 (27%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (3%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 32 | 83.7% | +10.4% |
| RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 12 | 80.0% | +9.1% |
| CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 11 | 74.9% | +12.6% |
| WERNER, DAVID N | 8 | 68.4% | +16.1% |
| LEE, Y YOUNG | 3 | 48.7% | +26.1% |
| BENNETT, STUART D | 2 | 68.9% | -14.2% |
| NASRI, MARYAM A | 1 | 73.9% | +2.5% |
| YU, LIHONG | 1 | 81.4% | +19.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18964129 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 8d |
| 19280516 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | YU, LIHONG | 16d |
| 18949072 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 40d |
| 19255830 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 49d |
| 18964117 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 55d |
| 19631412 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
| 19631395 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
| 19563116 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523855 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 4d overdue |
| 19573609 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | — |
| 19569334 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA BASED ON TREE STRUCTURE-BASED BLOCK DIVISION | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | — |
| 19563038 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19559215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19452724 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19439662 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 19439653 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523855 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 4d overdue |
| 18964129 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 8d |
| 19280516 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | YU, LIHONG | 16d |
| 19255830 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 49d |
| 18964117 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 55d |
| 19662454 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | — |
| 19573609 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | — |
| 19569355 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 32 |
| 2487 | 20 |
| 2425 | 11 |
| 2485 | 3 |
| 2481 | 2 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| 2631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19662454 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2026 |
| 19631412 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2026 |
| 19631395 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2026 |
| 19573609 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2026 |
| 19569355 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2026 |
| 19569342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA BASED ON TREE STRUCTURE-BASED BLOCK DIVISION | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2026 |
| 19569334 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA BASED ON TREE STRUCTURE-BASED BLOCK DIVISION | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2026 |
| 19563038 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2026 |
| 19563116 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2026 |
| 19562388 | ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRA PREDICTING A CODING UNIT PARTITION | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2026 |
| 19559028 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19559031 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19559215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19463585 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2026 |
| 19452724 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2026 |
| 19439662 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19439653 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19439660 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19439657 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19435741 | ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRA PREDICTING A CODING UNIT PARTITION | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2025 |
| 19426492 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426383 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426401 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426369 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426432 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426392 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426386 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19426388 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19414697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 19414703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 19410501 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19410564 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19358038 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE | NASRI, MARYAM A | 2484 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19326143 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19280550 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280546 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280535 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280516 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | YU, LIHONG | 2631 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19280539 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19264427 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19255809 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19255818 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19255802 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19255839 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19255830 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19094731 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19066057 | IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19056463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA BASED ON TREE STRUCTURE-BASED BLOCK DIVISION | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19056406 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA BASED ON TREE STRUCTURE-BASED BLOCK DIVISION | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19056444 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA BASED ON TREE STRUCTURE-BASED BLOCK DIVISION | CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J | 2425 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialB1 Institute of Image Technology Inc. has 70 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Jeffery A Williams has the most, with 32 of B1 Institute of Image Technology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
