Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Daniel Chang, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as CHANG, DANIEL

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2482 2487 2489

This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases

Analysis

CHANG, DANIEL has 389 resolved cases, with a 64.8% allowance rate and a median of 1075 days to allowance. The examiner is assigned to Tech Center 2400 and art unit 2482. The 11.5% interview lift shows a positive but limited measured association.

The listed companies are Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Bayes PLLC, Astute IP Law Group, and SUGHRUE MION, PLLC are the leading listed firms. Practitioners handling mobile communications matters can use the company and firm mix to locate relevant experience.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

64.8%
Allow Rate
+6.8% vs TC avg
436
Total Applications
+11.5%
Interview Lift
1075
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 389 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

6.0%
§101 Eligibility
10.1%
§102 Novelty
52.9%
§103 Obviousness
20.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19252018 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL BY APPLYING SECONDARY TRANSFORM TO PARTITIONED BLOCK Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
17787886 IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON SUB-PICTURE Final Rejection LG ELECTRONICS INC.
19058562 TEST DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18358094 FLEXIBLE COEFFICIENT CODING IN VIDEO COMPRESSION Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
19012441 ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER DEVICE Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17698705 Filter Flags for Subpicture Deblocking Final Rejection Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
19272885 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18744023 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY
19246048 ADAPTIVE CONSTRAINT ON BI-PREDICTION FOR OUT-OF-BOUNDARY CONDITIONS Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18805374 DECODER-SIDE MOTION VECTOR REFINEMENT SAMPLE PADDING Non-Final OA TENCENT AMERICA LLC
18927730 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18764091 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18675857 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY
19337745 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTIVE PICTURE ENCODING AND DECODING Non-Final OA INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
19272686 TRANSFORM METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
19232120 MERGE MODE-BASED INTER-PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
19231948 MERGE MODE-BASED INTER-PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18909187 ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, AND DECODING DEVICE Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
17889530 Method, An Apparatus and A Computer Program Product for Video Encoding and Video Decoding Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18858998 Method and Apparatus for Reordering Candidates of Merge with MVD Mode in Video Coding Systems Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
17409580 EFFICIENT ENCODING OF FILM GRAIN NOISE Non-Final OA NETFLIX, INC.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Daniel Chang's allowance rate?

64.8% of resolved applications examined by Daniel Chang were allowed (389 resolved cases), compared with 68.4% across Art Unit 2482 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Daniel Chang?

This examiner's interview lift is +11.5 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Daniel Chang take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Daniel Chang took 1,075 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Daniel Chang work in?

Daniel Chang examines applications in Art Unit 2482 in Tech Center 2400 (Networking & Security).

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