Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 3 (23%) |
| §103 only | 4 (31%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, PHILIP | 2 | 77.6% | +29.8% |
| LOTFI, KYLE M | 1 | 64.7% | +7.2% |
| GEROLEO, FRANCIS | 1 | 73.6% | +18.3% |
| KWAN, MATTHEW K | 1 | 71.1% | +34.3% |
| DANG, DUY M | 1 | 91.0% | +6.5% |
| RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | 1 | 77.3% | +10.7% |
| MCDONALD, JAMES F | 1 | 59.1% | +42.8% |
| DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | 1 | 75.0% | +23.1% |
| YAARY, MICHAEL D | 1 | 87.2% | +8.1% |
| FREEMAN, EMILY ELIZABETH | 1 | 72.7% | +14.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 6 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 |
| 19264059 | CONTEXT ADAPTIVE BINARY ARITHMETIC CODING METHOD AND DEVICE | LOTFI, KYLE M | — |
| 18652112 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — |
| 18279362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN M2M SYSTEM | DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | — |
| 18002393 | MATRIX INDEX INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, MATRIX PROCESSING METHOD USING MATRIX INDEX INFORMATION, AND DEVICE | YAARY, MICHAEL D | — |
| 18070245 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING DATA IN MACHINE TO MACHINE SYSTEM | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18959508 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE SIGNAL | DANG, PHILIP | 42d |
| 19187461 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE | GEROLEO, FRANCIS | — |
| 19091752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING | KWAN, MATTHEW K | — |
| 18959519 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE SIGNAL | DANG, PHILIP | — |
| 18652112 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — |
| 18279362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN M2M SYSTEM | DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2147 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264059 | CONTEXT ADAPTIVE BINARY ARITHMETIC CODING METHOD AND DEVICE | LOTFI, KYLE M | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19187461 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE | GEROLEO, FRANCIS | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19091752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING | KWAN, MATTHEW K | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18959519 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE SIGNAL | DANG, PHILIP | 2488 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18959508 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE SIGNAL | DANG, PHILIP | 2488 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 18652112 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | RAYMOND, BRITTANY L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18617747 | CATHETER ROTARY APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 3797 | §102 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18279362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN M2M SYSTEM | DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN | 2147 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18002393 | MATRIX INDEX INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, MATRIX PROCESSING METHOD USING MATRIX INDEX INFORMATION, AND DEVICE | YAARY, MICHAEL D | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 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 |
| 17973780 | CATHODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE CATHODE MATERIAL | FEHR, JULIA MARIE | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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