Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd.

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
100% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 1 77.4% +11.7%
ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL 1 35.4% +23.9%
MESSMORE, JONATHAN R 1 76.8% +9.2%
GADOMSKI, STEFAN J 1 76.1% +7.3%
KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 1 79.1% +27.5%
PHUNG, QUOC LY PHU 1 46.2% +93.3%
NGUYEN, HENRY K 1 57.5% +30.7%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17630660 DATA STORAGE METHOD, DATA ACQUISITION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF PHUNG, QUOC LY PHU 169d overdue
18851477 Image Coding Method and Apparatus, Image Decoding Method and Apparatus, and Electronic Device and Storage Medium KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 5d overdue
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
17630139 DATA BLOCK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, HENRY K 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2482 2
2483 1
2485 1
2487 1
2143 1
2121 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jul 22, 2025
18998338 IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE MESSMORE, JONATHAN R 2482 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 24, 2025
18998260 IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS GADOMSKI, STEFAN J 2485 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 24, 2025
18851477 Image Coding Method and Apparatus, Image Decoding Method and Apparatus, and Electronic Device and Storage Medium KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
17630660 DATA STORAGE METHOD, DATA ACQUISITION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF PHUNG, QUOC LY PHU 2143 Non-Final OA 169d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2022
17630139 DATA BLOCK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM NGUYEN, HENRY K 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 25, 2022

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