Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
983 pending office actions • 213 art units • 645 examiners • 1 of 983 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2,291 patents granted in the last 365 days
LG Electronics Inc. manages a large portfolio with 986 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 986 actions are distributed among 665 distinct examiners, reflecting a broad range of individual examination styles and perspectives. The involvement of 181 distinct art units further highlights the significant technical breadth of the company's networking and security-related intellectual property across the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is Bell, Spencer E, who is currently handling 13 of the pending office actions. Although Bell, Spencer E has the highest individual workload, these 13 actions constitute only a small portion of the 986 total pending office actions. This distribution suggests that the prosecution of the portfolio is highly decentralized, with 665 distinct examiners contributing to the overall outcome. Practitioners must be prepared for a wide range of examiner behaviors across the 181 distinct art units involved.
With 986 pending office actions and 181 distinct art units, the scale of the Networking & Security portfolio necessitates a sophisticated management approach. The 665 distinct examiners ensure that no single examiner's preferences, including those of Bell, Spencer E with his 13 actions, dominate the company's patenting trajectory. Instead, the 986 pending actions reflect a broad engagement with the patent office, where the diversity of 181 art units requires deep expertise across many different facets of networking technology.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 172 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. 172 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 | 4 (0%) |
| §101 + other | 45 (5%) |
| §103 only | 395 (40%) |
| §102 only | 73 (7%) |
| §112 only | 41 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 41 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 15 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 356 (36%) |
| No statute on record | 13 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 12 | 59.5% | +31.9% |
| BELL, SPENCER E | 11 | 63.2% | +12.8% |
| PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 9 | 77.2% | +21.3% |
| TRAN, HANH VAN | 8 | 74.1% | +14.1% |
| GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 7 | 62.3% | +34.6% |
| CORMIER, DAVID G | 7 | 64.4% | +28.8% |
| LAUX, DAVID J | 7 | 65.0% | +28.5% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 7 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
| HESS, MICHAEL J | 6 | 43.2% | +5.8% |
| LEE, KEVIN G | 6 | 64.1% | +27.1% |
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 |
| 17466978 | LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS | LAU, JASON | 44d 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270829 | REFRIGERATOR | TRAN, HANH VAN | 6d |
| 18653152 | REFRIGERATOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 7d |
| 18538053 | REFRIGERATOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 7d |
| 18745313 | LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS | PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 14d |
| 18675801 | REFRIGERATOR | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 14d |
| 18004781 | CLOTHING PROCESSING DEVICE | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 14d |
| 18812566 | REFRIGERATOR | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 15d |
| 18844577 | DISHWASHER | CORMIER, DAVID G | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 54 |
| 1711 | 53 |
| 3762 | 45 |
| 3723 | 37 |
| 3761 | 28 |
| 2482 | 25 |
| 3637 | 25 |
| 2469 | 21 |
| 2481 | 20 |
| 2466 | 17 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19448885 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD OF TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | 2484 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
| 19442173 | FAN MOTOR | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19442354 | METHOD FOR ENCODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION | WONG, ALLEN C | 2488 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | 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 | §102§103 | 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 |
| 19386825 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING SAME | CRAVER, CHARLES R | 3992 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19326946 | MATRIX INTRA PREDICTION-BASED IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD | JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 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 |
| 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 |
| 19161081 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2483 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19160620 | MESH DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, MESH DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, MESH DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND MESH DATA RECEPTION METHOD | LE, PETER D | 2488 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 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 |
| 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 |
| 19282560 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE ON BASIS OF TRANSFORM AND DEVICE THEREFOR | JEBARI, MOHAMMED | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19151583 | ROBOT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | MOLINA, NIKKI MARIE M | 3662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19280617 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | TRAN, TRANG U | 2422 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19277252 | METHOD FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD FOR ENCODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD FOR STORING BITSTREAM OF IMAGE INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM OF IMAGE INFORMATION | HESS, MICHAEL J | 2481 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 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 |
| 19272159 | FEEDER | TRUONG, KATELYN T | 3647 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | AI Ready | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19272530 | FEEDER | TRUONG, KATELYN T | 3647 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19148831 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND POWER CONSUMPTION REDUCTION METHOD THEREOF | ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE | 2625 | §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 |
| 19271622 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNALING INFORMATION RELATED TO SUB PICTURE AND PICTURE HEADER, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | MUNG, ON S | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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Start Free TrialLG Electronics Inc. has 983 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 213 art units and 645 examiners.
Kirstin U Oswald has the most, with 12 of LG Electronics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.