Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

KT Corporation

24 pending office actions • 10 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
20
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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.

5
Hard (21%)
16
Medium (67%)
3
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (4%)
§103 only9 (38%)
§102 only7 (29%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Double-patenting only2 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
10
Information Tech
42% of docket
3
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
11
Business / Other
46% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PHAM, NAM D 1 90.8% +1.4%
BECK, LERON 1 79.9% +11.0%
HOLDER, ANNER N 1 78.8% +13.5%
FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 1 71.5% +30.9%
BOYLAN, JAMES T 1 63.0% +11.3%
JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T 1 91.3% -13.1%
ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL 1 65.0% +6.3%
LIMA, FABIO S 1 77.4% +14.1%
LEE, CHI HO A 1 92.1% +4.6%
GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE 1 36.4% +41.7%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19255987 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL PHAM, NAM D
19058494 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING PREDICTED CELL MEASUREMENT RESULT BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T
18929227 FRAME STRUCTURE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FULL DUPLEX COMMUNICATION LEE, CHI HO A

Hard Cases (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18940677 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL LIMA, FABIO S 77d overdue
18724889 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL 44d overdue
18847076 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS HAGHANI, SHADAN E 26d overdue
18370082 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTI VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK SERVICE SUPPORTING DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 14d
18589788 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL MESSMORE, JONATHAN R

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18940677 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL LIMA, FABIO S 77d overdue
19241259 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING RESIDUAL DATA BASED ON A PLURALITY OF TRANSFORMATIONS BECK, LERON
19219643 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL HOLDER, ANNER N
19116953 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING RELAYS FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS
19107561 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM BOYLAN, JAMES T
18856876 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORK GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2486 3
2482 2
2633 1
2485 1
2165 1
2647 1
2446 1
2473 1
2642 1
2488 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19255987 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL PHAM, NAM D 2482 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2025
19241259 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING RESIDUAL DATA BASED ON A PLURALITY OF TRANSFORMATIONS BECK, LERON DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2025
19219643 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL HOLDER, ANNER N §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 27, 2025
19116953 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING RELAYS FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 2633 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2025
19107561 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM BOYLAN, JAMES T 2486 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2025
19058494 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING PREDICTED CELL MEASUREMENT RESULT BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2025
18724889 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL 2486 §102§103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2025
18940677 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL LIMA, FABIO S 2486 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2024
18929227 FRAME STRUCTURE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FULL DUPLEX COMMUNICATION LEE, CHI HO A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 28, 2024
18856876 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORK GRADINARIU, LUCIA GHEORGHE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2024
18847076 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS HAGHANI, SHADAN E 2485 §101§103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2024
18798305 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION TRAN, MONG THUY THI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18797901 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING UPLINK DATA CHANNEL IN FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATION OVEISSI, MANSOUR §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18833741 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC CHAKRAVARTHY, LATHA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18769684 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 11, 2024
18726870 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL BY REDUCED CAPACITY TERMINAL NGO, CHUONG A §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 05, 2024
18725939 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING MOBILITY MAGLOIRE, ELISABETH BENOIT §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 01, 2024
18654144 INFECTIOUS DISEASE PROLIFERATION PREVENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD PEACH, POLINA G 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending May 03, 2024
18625464 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION TO REDUCE WIRELESS POWER MANOHARAN, MUTHUSWAMY GANAPATHY 2647 §102 Final Rejection Pending Apr 03, 2024
18589788 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL MESSMORE, JONATHAN R 2482 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2024
18370082 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTI VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK SERVICE SUPPORTING DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS 2446 §103§112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 19, 2023
18281836 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING MBS SESSION RESOURCE KAO, JUTAI 2473 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 13, 2023
17714375 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING SIDELINK COMMUNICATION USING COORDINATION INFORMATION PANNELL, MARK G 2642 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 06, 2022
17174067 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL HILAIRE, CLIFFORD 2488 §112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2021

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