Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
930 pending office actions • 205 art units • 616 examiners • 0 of 930 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2,285 patents granted in the last 365 days
LG Electronics Inc. has 959 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters span 630 distinct examiners and 205 distinct art units, establishing a large and widely distributed examination operation that cannot be managed effectively through isolated file review alone.
OSWALD, KIRSTIN U is the busiest examiner, with 12 pending matters. That assignment is a small portion of the overall workload, so the main prosecution need is scalable docket governance. Counsel should combine centralized analytics and issue coding with examiner-specific preparation for recurring assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 148 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. 148 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 only | 3 (0%) |
| §101 + other | 46 (5%) |
| §103 only | 367 (39%) |
| §102 only | 80 (9%) |
| §112 only | 34 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 32 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 7 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 344 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 17 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, SPENCER E | 13 | 63.0% | +13.4% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 12 | 59.4% | +32.1% |
| GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 10 | 62.2% | +32.8% |
| LAUX, DAVID J | 8 | 65.2% | +28.5% |
| PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 7 | 77.2% | +21.3% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 7 | 65.7% | +27.8% |
| CHIO, TAT CHI | 6 | 73.0% | +17.5% |
| LEE, KEVIN G | 6 | 64.2% | +27.2% |
| ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 6 | 63.5% | +24.2% |
| TRAN, HANH VAN | 6 | 74.1% | +13.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18017559 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAUSING RADIO LINK FAILURE DETECTION FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 188d overdue |
| 18246125 | TRANSFER SUBSTRATE USED IN MANUFACTURE OF DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE | SMITH, BRADLEY | 119d overdue |
| 18881398 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREIN | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 73d overdue |
| 18568685 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 73d overdue |
| 18688182 | PLANT CULTIVATOR | REYES, EDGAR | 66d overdue |
| 18034851 | VACUUM ADIABATIC BODY | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 43d overdue |
| 18575215 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PUCCH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | KIM, SUN JONG | 35d overdue |
| 18847815 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 23d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026926 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE | CHIO, TAT CHI | 5d overdue |
| 17622540 | REFRIGERATOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 4d overdue |
| 18270829 | REFRIGERATOR | TRAN, HANH VAN | 6d |
| 18538053 | REFRIGERATOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 7d |
| 18398895 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | CHIO, TAT CHI | 9d |
| 18578095 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | CHIO, TAT CHI | 12d |
| 18675801 | REFRIGERATOR | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 14d |
| 18004781 | CLOTHING PROCESSING DEVICE | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 63 |
| 1711 | 49 |
| 3762 | 43 |
| 3723 | 32 |
| 3761 | 30 |
| 2482 | 24 |
| 2469 | 21 |
| 2481 | 19 |
| 3637 | 17 |
| 2466 | 16 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19643111 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REQUESTING FEEDBACK OF PORTION OF BAND FOR STA OPERATING ONLY IN 20/80/160 MHZ IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR | 2475 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2026 |
| 19562571 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION METHOD BY WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, WIRELESS POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS POWER RECEPTION METHOD BY WIRELESS POWER RECEPTION DEVICE | FUREMAN, JARED | 2859 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2026 |
| 19451814 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING 360 VIDEO, METHOD FOR RECEIVING 360 VIDEO, APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING 360 VIDEO, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING 360 VIDEO | HANCE, ROBERT J | 2487 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 19442173 | FAN MOTOR | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19425314 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD OF TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19409578 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION OR RECEPTION BASED ON DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE UNIT TONE PLAN IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | MIAH, LITON | 2642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19397537 | DISPLAY DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM | SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 2628 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19485486 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2025 |
| 19480568 | VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19476446 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SAME | PHAM, CLINT V | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19354104 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE DECODING ON BASIS OF CCLM PREDICTION IN IMAGE CODING SYSTEM | GEROLEO, FRANCIS | 2482 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19473655 | INTRA-PREDICTION-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAMS | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19349428 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, BITSTREAM TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19471459 | FAN MOTOR | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19345047 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM | BALAOING, ARIEL A | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 19166750 | MIP-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREIN | SIANGCHIN, KEVIN | 2486 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19329901 | IMAGE DECODING METHOD USING CHROMA QUANTIZATION PARAMETER, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | CHIO, TAT CHI | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19328780 | IMAGE CODING METHOD BASED ON POC INFORMATION AND NON-REFERENCE PICTURE FLAG IN VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING SYSTEM | LOTFI, KYLE M | 2425 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19324443 | MIXED NAL UNIT TYPE-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19320863 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING POINT CLOUD DATA | CHIO, TAT CHI | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19161917 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREIN | MCFALL, CHRISTIAN PAUL | 2483 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19316868 | ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING PICTURE OUTPUT TIMING INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19312486 | IMAGE CODING METHOD ON BASIS OF ENTRY POINT-RELATED INFORMATION IN VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING SYSTEM | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19158321 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | SENFI, BEHROOZ M | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
| 19157970 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING QUANTIZATION ACCORDING TO IMAGE USE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | SENFI, BEHROOZ M | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19302411 | DISPLAY DEVICE | ISLAM, HASAN Z | 2845 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19301401 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING DIVISION MODE ON BASIS OF COLOR FORMAT, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | 2484 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19300023 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNALING CHROMA COMPONENT PREDICTION INFORMATION ACCORDING TO WHETHER PALETTE MODE IS APPLICABLE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | OWENS, TSION B | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19299856 | IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR | RAHMAN, MOHAMMAD J | 2487 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19155878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PLURALITY OF REFERENCE SIGNALS | LUBIT, RYAN A | 2626 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19293905 | BDPCM-BASED IMAGE DECODING METHOD FOR LUMA COMPONENT AND CHROMA COMPONENT, AND DEVICE FOR SAME | KIR, ALBERT | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19284964 | ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING-BASED IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD | KWAN, MATTHEW K | 2482 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19285029 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR | KIR, ALBERT | 2485 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19151970 | DISPLAY DEVICE | TON, ANABEL | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19280617 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | TRAN, TRANG U | 2422 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19276717 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE USING WEIGHTED PREDICTION, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | BECK, LERON | 2487 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19276823 | TRANSFORM-BASED VIDEO CODING METHOD, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19149332 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAMS | OWENS, TSION B | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19272030 | INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON INTRA SUB-PARTITIONS IN IMAGE CODING SYSTEM | PEREZ FUENTES, LUIS M | 2481 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19270901 | IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | NOH, JAE NAM | 2481 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19147115 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON INTRA PREDICTION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | RETALLICK, KAITLIN A | 2482 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19146361 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREIN | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 2482 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19146428 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | GEROLEO, FRANCIS | 3619 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19260978 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | CHEUNG, CALVIN K | 3669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19261330 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19259452 | IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE USING DPB PARAMETER FOR OLS | HABIB, IRFAN | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19145810 | CHANNEL PREDICTION-BASED FEATURE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V | 2486 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19258219 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING 360-DEGREE VIDEO, METHOD FOR RECEIVING 360-DEGREE VIDEO, APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING 360-DEGREE VIDEO, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING 360-DEGREE VIDEO | CARLSON, JEFFREY D | 3992 | Other | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19144558 | FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND ANTENNA ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SAME | NGUYEN, HOANG V | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19252018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL BY APPLYING SECONDARY TRANSFORM TO PARTITIONED BLOCK | CHANG, DANIEL | 2482 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialLG Electronics Inc. has 930 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 205 art units and 616 examiners.
Spencer E Bell has the most, with 13 of LG Electronics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
