Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2482 2487 2621

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

74.8%
Allow Rate
+12.8% vs TC avg
1,104
Total Applications
+11.3%
Interview Lift
1172
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1060 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.2%
§101 Eligibility
36.2%
§102 Novelty
49.4%
§103 Obviousness
1.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18838153 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, BITSTREAM TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM THEREIN Final Rejection LG Electronics Inc.
18824060 ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18847695 COMPUTER SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18605360 INTRA-FRAME PREDICTION METHOD AND TERMINAL Non-Final OA VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
18667973 Knowledge Distillation Training via Encoded Information Exchange to Generate Models Structured for More Efficient Compute Non-Final OA Google LLC
19022988 PLANAR INTRA-PREDICTION USING POSITION DEPENDENT PREDICTION COMBINATION Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
19022980 VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND VIDEO DECODER Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18668637 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLE MODEL, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18949637 MODEL-BASED MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCE DERIVATION AND TEMPLATE MATCHING PREDICTION FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18591547 CANDIDATE DERIVATION IN A SEARCH RANGE USING TEMPLATE MATCHING FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
19019166 ADAPTIVE MOTION AND BLOCK VECTOR RESOLUTIONS Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18781820 LIST CONSTRUCTION AND SIGNALING OF TRANSFORM TYPES AND TRANSFORM SETS Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
17984907 INTER PREDICTION DIRECTION AND BCW INDEX CODING IN MERGE MODE Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18665178 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF HALLUCINATION IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
19029230 METHOD FOR ENCODING AND/OR DECODING IMAGES ON MACROBLOCK LEVEL USING INTRA-PREDICTION Non-Final OA InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
17853076 MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCE FOR BLOCK WITH GEOMETRIC PARTITION Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
19058835 INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN IMAGE CODING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18832959 SMART ANNOTATION TOOL FOR PATHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES IN BRAIN SCANS Final Rejection KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
19012817 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENTROPY ENCODING, DECODING VIDEO SIGNAL Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
19012822 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENTROPY ENCODING, DECODING VIDEO SIGNAL Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
19025748 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
19024733 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
19024890 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
19025026 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
19025150 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
19025369 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
19025575 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LX Semicon Co., Ltd.
18226459 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Final Rejection LX SEMICON CO., LTD.
18216008 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXECUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ON A NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18077783 CONSTRAINTS ON INTRA BLOCK COPY USING NON-ADJACENT NEIGHBORING BLOCKS Non-Final OA Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.

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