Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 5 actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units, showing a focused technical scope. Each of the 5 pending actions is assigned to a different person, as there are 5 distinct examiners involved. This means the company must navigate the specific requirements of 2 art units while interacting with 5 different examiners to resolve these 5 pending matters. No two actions share the same examiner.
FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since all 5 examiners have exactly 1 action, the workload is evenly split among the 5 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's tendencies will dominate the outcome of the 5 pending actions. Practitioners should be prepared for 5 unique sets of feedback across the 2 distinct art units. The 5 pending office actions represent the current activity in the Networking & Security sector for this company.
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 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 1 | 77.9% | +11.6% |
| ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 1 | 35.3% | +23.6% |
| BECK, LERON | 1 | 80.2% | +11.0% |
| CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 1 | 65.2% | +19.2% |
| JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 1 | 55.7% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19276898 | ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS | ITSKOVICH, MIKHAIL | 30d |
| 18767880 | CODING AND DECODING METHODS, CODER AND DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JEBARI, MOHAMMED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18767880 | CODING AND DECODING METHODS, CODER AND DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JEBARI, MOHAMMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2482 | 3 |
| 2483 | 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 | 2482 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19202760 | COEFFICIENT DECODING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 18767880 | CODING AND DECODING METHODS, CODER AND DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 2482 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
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