Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

B1 Institute of Image Technology Inc.

46 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 46 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 75 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

46
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
23
Final Rejections
11
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

10
Hard (22%)
24
Medium (52%)
11
Easy (24%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (2%)
§103 only17 (37%)
§102 only3 (7%)
§112 only7 (15%)
Double-patenting only4 (9%)
Double-patenting + other4 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (20%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
42
Information Tech
91% of docket
1
Communications
2% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
7% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

460 h
Manual time on pending OAs
92 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
161 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 26 83.7% +9.1%
WERNER, DAVID N 7 67.8% +16.6%
LEE, Y YOUNG 3 48.1% +25.8%
CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J 2 75.4% +13.4%
BENNETT, STUART D 2 69.3% -14.7%
RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J 2 79.5% +9.9%
MAHMUD, FARHAN 1 55.9% +10.2%
XU, XIAOLAN 1 74.0% +13.7%
YU, LIHONG 1 81.9% +18.9%
HANCE, ROBERT J 1 66.4% +21.6%

Quick Wins (20)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19045242 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 15d overdue
18523855 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 4d overdue
19280516 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS YU, LIHONG 16d
18971573 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 22d
19255830 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 49d
19426432 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
19426392 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
19410564 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A

Hard Cases (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19435741 ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRA PREDICTING A CODING UNIT PARTITION BENNETT, STUART D
19426346 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
19426402 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
19426354 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
19426369 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N
19426318 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
19426339 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A
19426401 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N

Interview Candidates (16)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19239504 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS HANCE, ROBERT J 22d overdue
19280516 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS YU, LIHONG 16d
19285604 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT XU, XIAOLAN 28d
19321331 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N 79d
19439576 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J
19426388 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N
19426369 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N
19426401 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2488 26
2487 9
2481 2
2485 2
2425 1
2483 1
2631 1
2482 1
3992 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19439576 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J 2425 §102Other Final Rejection Pending Jan 05, 2026
19435741 ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRA PREDICTING A CODING UNIT PARTITION BENNETT, STUART D 2481 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2025
19427247 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J 2487 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426346 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426388 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §102§103DP Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426432 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426392 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426402 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426354 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19427280 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J 2487 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426369 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426318 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426339 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2025
19426401 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §101§102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2025
19414703 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2025
19414697 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 10, 2025
19410564 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 05, 2025
19410501 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103§112DP Final Rejection Pending Dec 05, 2025
19353767 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS MAHMUD, FARHAN 2483 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2025
19348150 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2025
19326156 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Sep 11, 2025
19326143 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2025
19321331 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Sep 08, 2025
19320750 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2025
19314342 ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRA PREDICTING A CODING UNIT PARTITION BENNETT, STUART D 2481 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2025
19285604 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING 360-DEGREE IMAGE ACCORDING TO PROJECTION FORMAT XU, XIAOLAN 2488 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 30, 2025
19280516 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS YU, LIHONG 2631 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Jul 25, 2025
19264427 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2025
19255839 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Jun 30, 2025
19255809 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
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
19255462 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE LEE, Y YOUNG 2482 §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2025
19239504 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS HANCE, ROBERT J 3992 Other Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2025
19045242 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 04, 2025
19040508 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE LEE, Y YOUNG 2485 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 29, 2025
19040504 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE LEE, Y YOUNG 2485 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 29, 2025
18971561 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 06, 2024
18971573 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §112Other Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 06, 2024
18774293 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18771199 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2024
18771208 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2024
18771226 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS CATTUNGAL, ROWINA J §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18756928 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 DP Final Rejection Pending Jun 27, 2024
18523855 IMAGE DATA ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A 2488 §112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023

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