Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
16 pending office actions • 8 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
V-nova International Limited currently manages 16 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 13 distinct examiners, which is a smaller number than the total 16 pending office actions. The portfolio is spread across 7 distinct art units, requiring the company to navigate various technical examination standards. RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions.
The 13 distinct examiners involved suggest that most individuals are handling only one or two cases for the company. This distribution across 7 distinct art units indicates that the company's technical focus within Networking & Security is somewhat varied. RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR, with 3 pending office actions, represents a higher concentration of work than the other distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that the 16 pending office actions are subject to the diverse preferences of these 13 distinct examiners.
The 7 distinct art units involved mean that the company must maintain consistency in its technical arguments across different USPTO groups. With 16 pending office actions, the volume of work is manageable but requires coordination across the 13 distinct examiners. Understanding the specific tendencies of RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR is particularly important given their 3 pending office actions, which is the largest individual workload in this set.
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 | 4 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (19%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2 | 76.4% | +12.7% |
| BENNETT, STUART D | 2 | 69.1% | -14.1% |
| BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 1 | 61.8% | +16.1% |
| NOH, JAE NAM | 1 | 86.3% | -9.2% |
| MUNG, ON S | 1 | 75.4% | +8.3% |
| WERNER, DAVID N | 1 | 68.1% | +16.5% |
| SENFI, BEHROOZ M | 1 | 82.9% | +9.7% |
| SHAHNAMI, AMIR | 1 | 82.0% | +9.8% |
| HODGES, SUSAN E | 1 | 67.1% | +13.8% |
| TRAN, THAI Q | 1 | 37.2% | -1.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039339 | ARCHITECTURE FOR SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT CODING | SHAHNAMI, AMIR | 30d overdue |
| 19246238 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROCESSING CONFIGURATION DATA | NOH, JAE NAM | — |
| 19045322 | USE OF HIERARCHICAL VIDEO AND IMAGE CODING FOR TELEPRESENCE | SENFI, BEHROOZ M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012265 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A BYTESTREAM | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 34d |
| 19469510 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF IMAGE CODING | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | — |
| 19322130 | TEMPORAL PROCESSING FOR VIDEO CODING TECHNOLOGY | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | — |
| 19246235 | LOW LATENCY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | BENNETT, STUART D | — |
| 19141519 | CONSTANT RATE FACTOR VIDEO ENCODING CONTROL | MUNG, ON S | — |
| 19056081 | QUANTIZATION OF RESIDUALS IN VIDEO CODING | WERNER, DAVID N | — |
| 18997707 | DATA PROCESSING IN A ENCODING PROCESS | HODGES, SUSAN E | — |
| 19000518 | USE OF EMBEDDED SIGNALLING FOR BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE SCALILNG IMPROVEMENTS AND SUPER-RESOLUTION SIGNALLING | ZHOU, ZHIHAN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012265 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A BYTESTREAM | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 34d |
| 19469510 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF IMAGE CODING | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | — |
| 19322130 | TEMPORAL PROCESSING FOR VIDEO CODING TECHNOLOGY | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | — |
| 19056081 | QUANTIZATION OF RESIDUALS IN VIDEO CODING | WERNER, DAVID N | — |
| 18997707 | DATA PROCESSING IN A ENCODING PROCESS | HODGES, SUSAN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2482 | 4 |
| 2481 | 3 |
| 2426 | 2 |
| 2400 | 2 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19469510 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF IMAGE CODING | BEASLEY, DEIRDRE L | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19322130 | TEMPORAL PROCESSING FOR VIDEO CODING TECHNOLOGY | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2426 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19246235 | LOW LATENCY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19246238 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROCESSING CONFIGURATION DATA | NOH, JAE NAM | 2481 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19141519 | CONSTANT RATE FACTOR VIDEO ENCODING CONTROL | MUNG, ON S | 2482 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19056081 | QUANTIZATION OF RESIDUALS IN VIDEO CODING | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19045322 | USE OF HIERARCHICAL VIDEO AND IMAGE CODING FOR TELEPRESENCE | SENFI, BEHROOZ M | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19039339 | ARCHITECTURE FOR SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT CODING | SHAHNAMI, AMIR | 2400 | DP | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18997707 | DATA PROCESSING IN A ENCODING PROCESS | HODGES, SUSAN E | 2425 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19012265 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A BYTESTREAM | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2426 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19012267 | USE OF TRANSFORMED COEFFICIENTS TO PROVIDE EMBEDDED SIGNALLING FOR WATERMARKING | TRAN, THAI Q | 2400 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19000518 | USE OF EMBEDDED SIGNALLING FOR BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE SCALILNG IMPROVEMENTS AND SUPER-RESOLUTION SIGNALLING | ZHOU, ZHIHAN | 2482 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18852371 | LOW COMPLEXITY ENHANCEMENT VIDEO CODING WITH SIGNAL ELEMENT MODIFICATION | LEE, JIMMY S | 2483 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18851636 | UPSAMPLING FILTER FOR APPLYING A PREDICTED AVERAGE MODIFICATION | LEE, JOHN J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18704388 | ENHANCEMENT DECODING IMPLEMENTATION AND METHOD USING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE RESIDUAL DATA | PRINCE, JESSICA MARIE | 2486 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18693871 | LOW COMPLEXITY ENHANCEMENT VIDEO CODING WITH TEMPORAL SCALABILITY | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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