Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation maintains a portfolio with 7 pending office actions, primarily focused on the Networking & Security technology area. The distribution of these actions across 4 distinct art units suggests a range of technical applications within the security sector. Prosecution is currently spread among 6 distinct examiners, which requires the foundation to manage multiple examiner styles and requirements simultaneously.
RETALLICK, KAITLIN A is the busiest examiner for this entity, responsible for 2 pending office actions. While most of the 6 distinct examiners are likely handling individual cases, the concentration of 2 pending office actions with a specific examiner provides a point of consolidation. Managing 7 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units indicates that the foundation is actively pursuing several different technological paths. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback given that the 6 distinct examiners are reviewing the pending office actions. This variety across 4 distinct art units highlights the complexity of their Networking & Security filings.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 4 (40%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 2 | 75.9% | +10.4% |
| TORRENTE, RICHARD T | 1 | 69.9% | +13.9% |
| KALAPODAS, DRAMOS | 1 | 79.6% | +26.6% |
| HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | 1 | 71.8% | +14.9% |
| KWAN, MATTHEW K | 1 | 71.1% | +34.3% |
| SULLIVAN, TYLER | 1 | 67.1% | +30.4% |
| HODGES, SUSAN E | 1 | 67.1% | +13.8% |
| GEROLEO, FRANCIS | 1 | 73.6% | +18.3% |
| BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | 1 | 68.7% | +14.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825577 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING PALETTE MODE BASED ON PROXIMITY INFORMATION | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 31d overdue |
| 18998065 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING REARRANGEMENT OF PREDICTION SIGNALS IN INTRA BLOCK COPY MODE | SULLIVAN, TYLER | 42d |
| 19134527 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING TEMPLATE MATCHING-BASED INTER PREDICTION | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | — |
| 18884703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING INTRA MIRROR PREDICTION | GEROLEO, FRANCIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825577 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING PALETTE MODE BASED ON PROXIMITY INFORMATION | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 31d overdue |
| 18998435 | VIDEO CODING METHOD AND DEVICE USING LUMA COMPONENT-BASED CHROMA COMPONENT PREDICTION | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 29d |
| 18998065 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING REARRANGEMENT OF PREDICTION SIGNALS IN INTRA BLOCK COPY MODE | SULLIVAN, TYLER | 42d |
| 19292354 | DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING BLOCK PARTITIONED INTO RANDOM SHAPE | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | — |
| 19231903 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING QUANTIZATION PARAMETER USED IN A VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS | KALAPODAS, DRAMOS | — |
| 19134527 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING TEMPLATE MATCHING-BASED INTER PREDICTION | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | — |
| 19115009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING BASED ON NON-SEPARABLE PRIMARY TRANSFORM | HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | — |
| 18894789 | METHOD FOR CHROMA COMPONENT PREDICTION BASED ON RECONSTRUCTED LUMA INFORMATION | HODGES, SUSAN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2487 | 3 |
| 2482 | 3 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19292354 | DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING BLOCK PARTITIONED INTO RANDOM SHAPE | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19231903 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING QUANTIZATION PARAMETER USED IN A VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS | KALAPODAS, DRAMOS | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19134527 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING TEMPLATE MATCHING-BASED INTER PREDICTION | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 2482 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19115009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING BASED ON NON-SEPARABLE PRIMARY TRANSFORM | HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | 2488 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18998435 | VIDEO CODING METHOD AND DEVICE USING LUMA COMPONENT-BASED CHROMA COMPONENT PREDICTION | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18998065 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING REARRANGEMENT OF PREDICTION SIGNALS IN INTRA BLOCK COPY MODE | SULLIVAN, TYLER | 2487 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18894789 | METHOD FOR CHROMA COMPONENT PREDICTION BASED ON RECONSTRUCTED LUMA INFORMATION | HODGES, SUSAN E | 2425 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18884703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING INTRA MIRROR PREDICTION | GEROLEO, FRANCIS | 3619 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18825577 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING PALETTE MODE BASED ON PROXIMITY INFORMATION | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18559339 | ENCODING/DECODING METHOD FOR PURPOSE OF SCALABLE STRUCTURE-BASED HYBRID TASK | BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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