Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Netflix Inc.

38 pending office actions • 22 art units • 36 examiners • 0 of 38 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

38
Total Pending OAs
22
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

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.

9
Hard (24%)
27
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (5%)
§103 only24 (63%)
§102 only2 (5%)
§112 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting only1 (3%)
Double-patenting + other1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
25
Information Tech
66% of docket
6
Communications
16% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
5% of docket
5
Business / Other
13% 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.

380 h
Manual time on pending OAs
76 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
133 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SU, SARAH 2 80.2% +18.0%
LE, PETER D 2 80.2% +16.4%
HOANG, HAU HAI 1 78.2% +13.8%
LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 1 88.5% +5.3%
PARRA, OMAR S 1 74.3% +9.7%
FOGG, CYNTHIA M 1 76.2% +23.8%
CORBO, NICHOLAS T 1 68.4% +31.7%
FEREJA, SAMUEL D 1 75.1% +11.5%
SHANG, ANNAN Q 1 70.7% +10.8%
WONG, JEFFREY KEITH 1 65.8% +26.7%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19015457 TECHNIQUES FOR AVM COEFFICIENT ENCODING LE, PETER D 44d overdue
19070089 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING AND INTERACTING WITH DATA USING DATA ABSTRACTION LAYERS IMPLEMENTED BY A DATA GATEWAY SU, SARAH
19070092 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING AND INTERACTING WITH DATA USING DATA ABSTRACTION LAYERS IMPLEMENTED BY A DATA GATEWAY SU, SARAH
19015460 TECHNIQUES FOR AVM COEFFICIENT ENCODING LE, PETER D

Hard Cases (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17192515 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING ENJOYMENT SIGNALS FOR WEIGHTING TRAINING DATA FACCENDA, GISEL GABRIELA 45d overdue
18620764 IDENTIFYING REPRESENTATIVE FRAMES IN VIDEO CONTENT LI, RUIPING 19d
19306181 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GRAPH ABSTRACTION HOANG, HAU HAI
19268101 REAL-TIME INDEXING OF IN-MEMORY DATASETS BASED ON STRUCTURED QUERIES LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE
19195370 TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATING CUSTOM ADVERTISING WHEN STREAMING LIVE EVENTS FOGG, CYNTHIA M
19021012 TECHNIQUES FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION USING HIERARCHICAL MULTI-TASK LEARNING SHANG, ANNAN Q
18974150 TECHNIQUES FOR CLIENT-SIDE UPSCALING OF VIDEO GAMES WONG, JEFFREY KEITH
18777157 TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE WHEN STREAMING LIVE EVENTS DUBASKY, GIGI L

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19015457 TECHNIQUES FOR AVM COEFFICIENT ENCODING LE, PETER D 44d overdue
19058931 TECHNIQUES FOR SCALING A RATE-DISTORTION MULTIPLIER WHEN PERFORMING TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATION FEREJA, SAMUEL D 31d overdue
19306181 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GRAPH ABSTRACTION HOANG, HAU HAI
19195370 TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATING CUSTOM ADVERTISING WHEN STREAMING LIVE EVENTS FOGG, CYNTHIA M
19195444 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING INTEGRATED VIDEO STREAMS THAT INCLUDE DIFFERENT ADVERTISING WHEN STREAMING A LIVE EVENT CORBO, NICHOLAS T
19070089 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING AND INTERACTING WITH DATA USING DATA ABSTRACTION LAYERS IMPLEMENTED BY A DATA GATEWAY SU, SARAH
19070092 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING AND INTERACTING WITH DATA USING DATA ABSTRACTION LAYERS IMPLEMENTED BY A DATA GATEWAY SU, SARAH
19021012 TECHNIQUES FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION USING HIERARCHICAL MULTI-TASK LEARNING SHANG, ANNAN Q

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2421 5
2616 3
2424 2
2488 2
3715 2
2195 2
2161 2
2154 1
2425 1
2487 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19306181 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GRAPH ABSTRACTION HOANG, HAU HAI 2154 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2025
19268101 REAL-TIME INDEXING OF IN-MEMORY DATASETS BASED ON STRUCTURED QUERIES LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 14, 2025
19255855 AUTOMATIC TRAILER DETECTION IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENT PARRA, OMAR S 2425 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2025
19195370 TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATING CUSTOM ADVERTISING WHEN STREAMING LIVE EVENTS FOGG, CYNTHIA M 2421 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2025
19195444 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING INTEGRATED VIDEO STREAMS THAT INCLUDE DIFFERENT ADVERTISING WHEN STREAMING A LIVE EVENT CORBO, NICHOLAS T 2424 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2025
19070089 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING AND INTERACTING WITH DATA USING DATA ABSTRACTION LAYERS IMPLEMENTED BY A DATA GATEWAY SU, SARAH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 04, 2025
19070092 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING AND INTERACTING WITH DATA USING DATA ABSTRACTION LAYERS IMPLEMENTED BY A DATA GATEWAY SU, SARAH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 04, 2025
19058931 TECHNIQUES FOR SCALING A RATE-DISTORTION MULTIPLIER WHEN PERFORMING TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATION FEREJA, SAMUEL D 2487 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2025
19021012 TECHNIQUES FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION USING HIERARCHICAL MULTI-TASK LEARNING SHANG, ANNAN Q 2424 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 14, 2025
19015457 TECHNIQUES FOR AVM COEFFICIENT ENCODING LE, PETER D 2488 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2025
19015460 TECHNIQUES FOR AVM COEFFICIENT ENCODING LE, PETER D 2488 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 09, 2025
18974150 TECHNIQUES FOR CLIENT-SIDE UPSCALING OF VIDEO GAMES WONG, JEFFREY KEITH 3715 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2024
18961013 PLAYBACK SIGNAL MANAGEMENT ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B 2443 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18959280 AI-Driven Generation of Video Content Meeting Professional Film Standards YANG, YI 2616 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 25, 2024
18911906 DYNAMIC PAGE UPDATING SYSTEM LE, RONG 2421 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 10, 2024
18886700 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING CHATBOTS INTO APPLICATIONS CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 2195 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 16, 2024
18829009 TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZED STORAGE UTILIZATION IN LIVE ORIGIN SERVERS GIROUARD, JANICE MARIE 2138 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 09, 2024
18824687 TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVE MULTI-LEVEL RECOMMENDATION USING HIERARCHICAL MIXTURE-OF-EXPERTS FRAMEWORK WEHOVZ, OSCAR 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 04, 2024
18793212 DISPLAYING A SCENE TO A SUBJECT WHILE CAPTURING THE SUBJECTS ACTING PERFORMANCE USING MULTIPLE SENSORS BEUTEL, WILLIAM A 2616 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
18786362 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING VIDEO TRACKS BASED ON USER PREFERENCES MARANDI, JAMES R 2421 §103Other Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jul 26, 2024
18777157 TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE WHEN STREAMING LIVE EVENTS DUBASKY, GIGI L 2421 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2024
18767798 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPLINE-BASED OBJECT TRACKING PATEL, PINALBEN V §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18735969 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING A MESH NETWORK AMONG CEC-ENABLED SOURCE DEVICES AND CEC-ENABLED SINK DEVICES PHUNG, LUAT 2468 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2024
18731161 LARGE-SCALE MULTI-ACTOR VOLUMETRIC VIDEO CAPTURE NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V 2486 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 31, 2024
18649857 TECHNIQUES FOR SIMULATING A LIVE EDGE IN A LIVE FIELD TEST SALCE, JASON P 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18630074 OPTIMIZING DEEP LEARNING RECOMMENDER MODEL DATA PIPELINES WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING MAUNI, HUMAIRA ZAHIN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 09, 2024
18625894 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING MATTES FOR IMAGES WELCH, DAVID T 2613 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18622815 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING PERSONALIZED STREAMING PLATFORM EVENT CONTENT IN NEAR REAL-TIME AT SCALE TELAN, MICHAEL R 2426 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 29, 2024
18620764 IDENTIFYING REPRESENTATIVE FRAMES IN VIDEO CONTENT LI, RUIPING 2676 §102§103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18617162 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR VIDEO DOWNSAMPLING LEMIEUX, IAN L 2669 §102 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18396583 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING DUBBED MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS IMPERIAL, JED-JUSTIN 2616 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 26, 2023
18530139 MAINTAINING READ-AFTER-WRITE CONSISTENCY BETWEEN DATASET SNAPSHOTS ACROSS A DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE SYED, FARHAN M 2161 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 05, 2023
18506881 IMAGE LEARNING MODEL ZUBERI, MOHAMMED H 2178 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18465794 HYBRID TASK EXECUTION FRAMEWORK FOR SEAMLESS TASK EXECUTION WITHIN CLOUD-NATIVE PIPELINES SUN, ANDREW NMN 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 68d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18193615 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING ADAPTIVE CONTROL LAYOUTS FOR SECOND SCREEN DEVICES HARPER, TRAMAR YONG 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18060330 PLATFORM AND ARCHITECTURE FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT INFORMATION NGUYEN, CHAU T 2145 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
17192515 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING ENJOYMENT SIGNALS FOR WEIGHTING TRAINING DATA FACCENDA, GISEL GABRIELA 2127 §103§112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2021
17135576 ONLINE COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH METHODOLOGIES FOR DISTRIBUTED TRACE AGGREGATION AND FOR TARGETED DISTRIBUTED TRACING RAZA, MUHAMMAD A 2449 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2020

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