Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of technical scrutiny. The company is working with 4 distinct examiners, which means every pending case is being reviewed by a different person.
FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G is the busiest examiner, currently holding 1 pending action. With 4 pending office actions and a matching number of distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with no examiner handling more than one case. This ensures that the prosecution of each matter is isolated from the others.
The use of 4 distinct art units for only 4 pending office actions highlights the diverse technical nature of the company's networking and security filings. Practitioners must be prepared to address several different sets of examiner expectations and art unit policies. The 4 distinct examiners provide a variety of perspectives, but also prevent any centralized negotiation strategy for the current portfolio, leaving FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G with influence over only one matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 1 | 77.9% | +11.5% |
| ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 1 | 35.0% | +22.7% |
| BECK, LERON | 1 | 80.3% | +10.8% |
| CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 1 | 65.4% | +18.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19244344 | IMAGE CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BECK, LERON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19276898 | ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19276898 | ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 30d |
| 19160909 | IMAGE DECODING AND ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 33d |
| 19244344 | IMAGE CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BECK, LERON | — |
| 19202760 | COEFFICIENT DECODING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19160909 | IMAGE DECODING AND ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19276898 | ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 2483 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19244344 | IMAGE CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BECK, LERON | 2487 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19202760 | COEFFICIENT DECODING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialHangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Christopher G Findley has the most, with 1 of Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
