Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: BOYLAN, JAMES T

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2482 2486

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.0%
Allow Rate
+5.0% vs TC avg
543
Total Applications
+11.3%
Interview Lift
1015
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 492 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.8%
§101 Eligibility
11.0%
§102 Novelty
55.4%
§103 Obviousness
21.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18704287 LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND VEHICLE Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18848930 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18358903 HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD Non-Final OA SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
18974013 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD Final Rejection Sony Group Corporation
18690275 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18910615 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18910601 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18910632 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
19178365 MULTIPLE INPUT SOURCES BASED EXTENDED TAPS FOR ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER IN VIDEO CODING Final Rejection BYTEDANCE INC.
19046225 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
19116321 A METHOD, AN APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
19108231 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18994855 Method and Apparatus of Improving Performance of Convolutional Cross-Component Model in Video Coding System Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
18808006 VIDEO SUPPORT IN A MULTI-APERTURE MOBILE CAMERA WITH A SCANNING ZOOM CAMERA Non-Final OA Corephotonics Ltd.
18933931 IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONVERT LATERAL SCANNING INTO AXIAL REMOTE FOCUSING Non-Final OA THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM

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