Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co., Ltd. currently has 8 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct art units, showing a technical scope for the company's current patent filings. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, which indicates that some examiners are handling more than one of the 8 pending office actions.
MAHMUD, FARHAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. This represents a portion of the company's 8 pending office actions, suggesting that this examiner's decisions will have a notable impact on the overall portfolio. With 6 distinct examiners working across 5 distinct art units, the company faces a mix of individual and overlapping examiner perspectives, requiring a prosecution strategy that can handle both specific examiner preferences and the requirements of multiple technical groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2 | 56.2% | +9.8% |
| MCFALL, CHRISTIAN PAUL | 1 | — | — |
| TSWEI, YU-JANG | 1 | 83.6% | +16.0% |
| CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | 1 | 41.5% | +35.4% |
| SHANG, ANNAN Q | 1 | 70.8% | +10.7% |
| CHOW, JEFFREY J | 1 | 77.2% | +15.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493747 | PAGE INTERACTION | CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | 11d overdue |
| 18513450 | LIVE STREAMING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON VIRTUAL IMAGE | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 9d overdue |
| 19196681 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MAHMUD, FARHAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493747 | PAGE INTERACTION | CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | 11d overdue |
| 18513450 | LIVE STREAMING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON VIRTUAL IMAGE | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 9d overdue |
| 18241750 | LIVESTREAMING SCHEDULING PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM | SHANG, ANNAN Q | — |
| 18219228 | Interactive Animation Generation | CHOW, JEFFREY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2483 | 3 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| 2618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19196681 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2483 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19196674 | REFERENCE FRAME PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON VERSATILE VIDEO CODING, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2483 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 18870284 | RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED QUANTIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | MCFALL, CHRISTIAN PAUL | 2483 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18513450 | LIVE STREAMING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON VIRTUAL IMAGE | TSWEI, YU-JANG | 2614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18493747 | PAGE INTERACTION | CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | 2171 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18241750 | LIVESTREAMING SCHEDULING PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18219228 | Interactive Animation Generation | CHOW, JEFFREY J | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
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