Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vdt Ip Protection LLC has 4 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so each application has a separate recorded examination context.
BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should focus on application-specific claim and response development rather than a shared examiner strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | 1 | 69.0% | +14.0% |
| PEREZ FUENTES, LUIS M | 1 | 83.9% | -17.9% |
| SHEN, QUN | 1 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
| DOTTIN, DARRYL V | 1 | 79.7% | +12.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19096523 | PLENO-GENERATION FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION FRAMEWORK FOR GENERATIVE FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION | PEREZ FUENTES, LUIS M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220772 | DIRECTIONAL CROSS COMPONENT FILTER FOR VIDEO CODING | BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220772 | DIRECTIONAL CROSS COMPONENT FILTER FOR VIDEO CODING | BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | — |
| 18988585 | MODEL TRAINING METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD | SHEN, QUN | — |
| 18400954 | FEATURE FUSION FOR INPUT PICTURE DATA PREPROCESSING FOR LEARNING MODEL | DOTTIN, DARRYL V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19220772 | DIRECTIONAL CROSS COMPONENT FILTER FOR VIDEO CODING | BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | 2487 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19096523 | PLENO-GENERATION FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION FRAMEWORK FOR GENERATIVE FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION | PEREZ FUENTES, LUIS M | 2481 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18988585 | MODEL TRAINING METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD | SHEN, QUN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18400954 | FEATURE FUSION FOR INPUT PICTURE DATA PREPROCESSING FOR LEARNING MODEL | DOTTIN, DARRYL V | 2683 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVdt Ip Protection LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Shanika M Brumfield has the most, with 1 of Vdt Ip Protection LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
