Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation maintains 5 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every open action. The prosecution occurs across 4 distinct art units, indicating a relatively broad technical scope within the networking field.
JIANG, ZAIHAN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This individual workload is consistent with the other examiners involved. The 5 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units show that the foundation's intellectual property is being scrutinized by multiple specialized units at the patent office.
For the foundation, having 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current portfolio. The 4 distinct art units further diversify the examination process. This distribution requires the foundation to adapt its prosecution tactics to the specific preferences of four different examination groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JIANG, ZAIHAN | 1 | 83.7% | +23.7% |
| HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 1 | 76.8% | +26.3% |
| KIDANE, MEHERET WOLDEGEBREAL | 1 | 80.8% | +26.3% |
| BECK, LERON | 1 | 80.2% | +11.0% |
| CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 1 | 56.0% | +27.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805847 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING INTRA BLOCK COPY | BECK, LERON | 6d |
| 18858317 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING DATA THROUGH SIDELINK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | KIDANE, MEHERET WOLDEGEBREAL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18095420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS ENCODING/DECODING A NEURAL NETWORK FEATURE MAP | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 19d |
| 19161682 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | JIANG, ZAIHAN | — |
| 19137609 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | HANSELL JR., RICHARD 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805847 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING INTRA BLOCK COPY | BECK, LERON | 6d |
| 18095420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS ENCODING/DECODING A NEURAL NETWORK FEATURE MAP | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 19d |
| 19161682 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | JIANG, ZAIHAN | — |
| 19137609 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | — |
| 18858317 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING DATA THROUGH SIDELINK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | KIDANE, MEHERET WOLDEGEBREAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19161682 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | JIANG, ZAIHAN | 2488 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19137609 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 2486 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 18858317 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING DATA THROUGH SIDELINK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | KIDANE, MEHERET WOLDEGEBREAL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18805847 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING INTRA BLOCK COPY | BECK, LERON | 2487 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18095420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS ENCODING/DECODING A NEURAL NETWORK FEATURE MAP | CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU | 2144 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
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