Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2484

This examiner grants 85% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

85.4%
Allow Rate
+27.4% vs TC avg
665
Total Applications
+10.2%
Interview Lift
809
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 637 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.1%
§101 Eligibility
16.3%
§102 Novelty
55.3%
§103 Obviousness
7.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19005629 SCALING LIST PARAMETER-BASED VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18996381 DYNAMIC MESH GEOMETRY REFINEMENT COMPONENT ADAPTIVE CODING Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18872242 METHOD OF ENCODING POINT CLOUD DATA, METHOD OF DECODING POINT CLOUD DATA, POINT CLOUD DECODER Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18725337 INTRA PREDICTION WITH MULTIPLE REFERENCE LINES Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18560287 POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
19064135 Slicing And Tiling In Video Coding Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18908679 Mesh Compression with Base Mesh Information Signaled in a First Sub-Bitstream and Sub-Mesh Information Signaled with Displacement Information in an Additional Sub-Bitstream Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
19047056 THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18907829 METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING VIDEO AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING METHOD FOR ENCODING VIDEO Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
19055733 MULTIPLE TRANSFORMS ADJUSTMENT STAGES FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18882516 V-DMC DISPLACEMENT LIFTING TRANSFORM Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
19055285 SIGNALING OF NEURAL-NETWORK POST-FILTER OUTPUT PICTURE RESOLUTION Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18762147 CAMERA NAVIGATION TRAINING SYSTEM Final Rejection Applied Medical Resources Corporation
19050555 VIDEO COMPRESSION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND VIDEO COMPRESSION PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIKON CORPORATION
18750109 VIDEO COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND VIDEO COMPRESSION PROGRAM Final Rejection NIKON CORPORATION
19036648 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE Non-Final OA INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
18895011 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DERIVING INTRA MULTIPLE REFERENCE LINE (MRL) PREDICTION SYNTAX BY DERIVING BOUNDARY AREA OF ATLAS IMAGE Non-Final OA Dong-A University Research Foundation For Industry-Academy Cooperation
18048711 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING REAL-TIME DYNAMIC IMAGERY OF A MEDICAL PROCEDURE SITE USING MULTIPLE MODALITIES Non-Final OA INNEROPTIC TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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