Technology area: Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dolby Video Compression LLC has 7 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing repeated assignments within a focused examination footprint. The profile supports coordinated review of recurring compression and networking issues.
SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those applications may provide a useful basis for comparing office-action treatment and response choices. The remaining matters require separate preparation because the examiner and unit assignments extend beyond that relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 2 | 78.2% | +7.4% |
| LIMA, FABIO S | 2 | 77.3% | +14.6% |
| LE, PETER D | 1 | 80.6% | +15.9% |
| KWAN, MATTHEW K | 1 | 71.3% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19051780 | MULTI-VIEW CODING WITH EXPLOITATION OF RENDERABLE PORTIONS | LE, PETER D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186131 | ENTROPY CODING SUPPORTING MODE SWITCHING | LIMA, FABIO S | 34d |
| 19203384 | ENTROPY CODING OF MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCES | LIMA, FABIO S | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186131 | ENTROPY CODING SUPPORTING MODE SWITCHING | LIMA, FABIO S | 34d |
| 19203384 | ENTROPY CODING OF MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCES | LIMA, FABIO S | — |
| 19051780 | MULTI-VIEW CODING WITH EXPLOITATION OF RENDERABLE PORTIONS | LE, PETER D | — |
| 18757056 | EFFECTIVE WEDGELET PARTITION CODING USING SPATIAL PREDICTION | KWAN, MATTHEW K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2485 | 2 |
| 2486 | 2 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19254937 | CODING OF SIGNIFICANCE MAPS AND TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT BLOCKS | SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 2485 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19203384 | ENTROPY CODING OF MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCES | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19186131 | ENTROPY CODING SUPPORTING MODE SWITCHING | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19051780 | MULTI-VIEW CODING WITH EXPLOITATION OF RENDERABLE PORTIONS | LE, PETER D | 2488 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18956274 | INHERITANCE IN SAMPLE ARRAY MULTITREE SUBDIVISION | SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 2485 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18757056 | EFFECTIVE WEDGELET PARTITION CODING USING SPATIAL PREDICTION | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialDolby Video Compression LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Joseph Jinwoo Suh has the most, with 2 of Dolby Video Compression LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
