Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

HFI Innovation Inc.

3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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%)
1
Medium (33%)
2
Easy (67%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (33%)
Double-patenting only2 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
33% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
67% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JEAN BAPTISTE, JERRY T 1 87.9% -27.9%
SENFI, BEHROOZ M 1 82.8% +9.8%
RETALLICK, KAITLIN A 1 76.0% +10.3%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19231346 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE USING SECONDARY TRANSFORM JEAN BAPTISTE, JERRY T
19199215 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSIONG VIDEO SIGNAL ON BASIS OF INTRA PREDICTION SENFI, BEHROOZ M

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18659531 Methods and Apparatuses of Processing Video Data of Out-of-bounds Nodes RETALLICK, KAITLIN A 23d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2482 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19231346 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE USING SECONDARY TRANSFORM JEAN BAPTISTE, JERRY T DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2025
19199215 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSIONG VIDEO SIGNAL ON BASIS OF INTRA PREDICTION SENFI, BEHROOZ M DP Non-Final OA Pending May 05, 2025
18659531 Methods and Apparatuses of Processing Video Data of Out-of-bounds Nodes RETALLICK, KAITLIN A 2482 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending May 09, 2024

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