Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (15%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| §102 only | 4 (31%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (23%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, YULIN | 2 | 80.9% | +14.6% |
| BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 85.6% | +10.2% |
| HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 1 | 76.3% | +26.9% |
| TRUONG, LAN DAI T | 1 | 91.1% | +11.6% |
| KWAN, MATTHEW K | 1 | 70.9% | +34.1% |
| DANG, DUY M | 1 | 91.1% | +6.3% |
| DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | 1 | 49.3% | +52.5% |
| MCDONALD, JAMES F | 1 | 59.3% | +41.2% |
| ABEL, LENORA A | 1 | 68.7% | +34.3% |
| FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 1 | 72.4% | +13.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19357004 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | SUN, YULIN | — |
| 19250399 | INTRA PREDICTION-BASED VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18833580 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING DEVICE GROUP IN M2M SYSTEM | TRUONG, LAN DAI T | — |
| 18955653 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREON | DANG, DUY M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18176801 | ZINC METAL ANODE INCLUDING A PROTECTIVE LAYER AND ZINC METAL BATTERY USING THE SAME | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 16d overdue |
| 18617747 | CATHETER ROTARY APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 5d |
| 19187903 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | SUN, YULIN | — |
| 18070245 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING DATA IN MACHINE TO MACHINE SYSTEM | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | — |
| 17988601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AUTOMATED RE-LEARNING IN MACHINE TO MACHINE SYSTEM | SIVJI, NIZAR N | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18123281 | Columnar Cell Culture Vessel | ABEL, LENORA A | 28d overdue |
| 18176801 | ZINC METAL ANODE INCLUDING A PROTECTIVE LAYER AND ZINC METAL BATTERY USING THE SAME | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 16d overdue |
| 18617747 | CATHETER ROTARY APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 5d |
| 19357004 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | SUN, YULIN | — |
| 19250399 | INTRA PREDICTION-BASED VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 19190511 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREON | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | — |
| 19187903 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | SUN, YULIN | — |
| 18833580 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING DEVICE GROUP IN M2M SYSTEM | TRUONG, LAN DAI T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2498 | 2 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 2600 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19357004 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | SUN, YULIN | 2485 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2025 |
| 19250399 | INTRA PREDICTION-BASED VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19190511 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREON | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 2486 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19187903 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | SUN, YULIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 18833580 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING DEVICE GROUP IN M2M SYSTEM | TRUONG, LAN DAI T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19091752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING | KWAN, MATTHEW K | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18955653 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD/DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD/DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREON | DANG, DUY M | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18776392 | EFFICIENT VIDEO ENCRYPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS | DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | 2498 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18617747 | CATHETER ROTARY APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18123281 | Columnar Cell Culture Vessel | ABEL, LENORA A | 1799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2023 |
| 18176801 | ZINC METAL ANODE INCLUDING A PROTECTIVE LAYER AND ZINC METAL BATTERY USING THE SAME | FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 1724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18070245 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING DATA IN MACHINE TO MACHINE SYSTEM | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 2498 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17988601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AUTOMATED RE-LEARNING IN MACHINE TO MACHINE SYSTEM | SIVJI, NIZAR N | 2600 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
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