Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dolby Video Compression LLC is managing 7 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a variety of technical focuses within the networking field. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, suggesting a diverse group of reviewers for the portfolio.
The busiest examiner is LIMA, FABIO S, who is responsible for 2 pending actions. The remaining pending actions are distributed among the other 6 distinct examiners. This means that while most of the 7 pending actions have unique examiners, one individual is handling a larger portion of the workload than the others.
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 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIMA, FABIO S | 2 | 77.2% | +14.2% |
| XU, XIAOLAN | 1 | 74.2% | +13.2% |
| VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 1 | 73.1% | +13.9% |
| LE, PETER D | 1 | 80.5% | +16.1% |
| SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 1 | 78.1% | +7.4% |
| KWAN, MATTHEW K | 1 | 71.1% | +34.3% |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186131 | ENTROPY CODING SUPPORTING MODE SWITCHING | LIMA, FABIO S | 34d |
| 19254929 | TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT CODING | XU, XIAOLAN | — |
| 19203384 | ENTROPY CODING OF MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCES | LIMA, FABIO S | — |
| 19077736 | EFFICIENT SCALABLE CODING CONCEPT | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 2 |
| 2482 | 2 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19254929 | TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT CODING | XU, XIAOLAN | — | §102§103DP | 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 |
| 19077736 | EFFICIENT SCALABLE CODING CONCEPT | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 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 |
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