Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: BOYLAN, JAMES T

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2486

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.7%
Allow Rate
+4.7% vs TC avg
525
Total Applications
+11.6%
Interview Lift
1016
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 488 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.6%
§101 Eligibility
3.2%
§102 Novelty
87.5%
§103 Obviousness
5.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18974013 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD Final Rejection Sony Group Corporation
18808006 VIDEO SUPPORT IN A MULTI-APERTURE MOBILE CAMERA WITH A SCANNING ZOOM CAMERA Non-Final OA Corephotonics Ltd.
18770422 DETERMINING AND MAPPING LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION FOR A VEHICLE Non-Final OA Lyft, Inc.
18910566 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18910632 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18910615 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18045025 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE FIXED MAGNIFICATION LEVELS Final Rejection Alcon Inc.
18704287 LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND VEHICLE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18946812 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Final Rejection Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18520886 MONITORING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Gentex Corporation
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
18848930 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM Final Rejection Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18358903 HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD Non-Final OA SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
18798226 ADAPTIVE VIDEO QUALITY FOR LARGE-SCALE VIDEO CONFERENCING Non-Final OA RingCentral, Inc.
19046225 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
19025481 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE UNIT COMPRISING IMAGE DATA REPRESENTED BY A LUMINANCE CHANNEL AND AT LEAST ONE CHROMINANCE CHANNEL Final Rejection INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
18994855 Method and Apparatus of Improving Performance of Convolutional Cross-Component Model in Video Coding System Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18276576 ADAPTABLE BAIT STATION Non-Final OA RENTOKIL INTIAL 1927 PLC
18685096 EMITTER ARRAY WITH TWO OR MORE INDEPENDENTLY DRIVEN AREAS Final Rejection TRINAMIX GMBH
18782171 Microscopy system and method for processing a microscope image Final Rejection Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
18766742 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGES OF A SCENE Final Rejection Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, Inc.
18715883 UV SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AN ALPHA CHANNEL Non-Final OA The Invisible Pixel Inc.
18600232 THERMAL IMAGING INCLUDING AN EXTENDED SHORT WAVE INFRARED LIGHT SOURCE Final Rejection LightPath Technologies, Inc.

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