Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: CHANG, DANIEL

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2482 2487 2489

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Analysis

Daniel Chang is an examiner in Tech Center 2400 and Art Unit 2482. The examiner has 382 resolved cases. This history of resolutions provides a dataset for observing the examiner's approach to patentability. The number of cases indicates the examiner's experience with the legal and technical standards of this unit and the 2400 tech center.

The allowance rate is 64.4 percent. This figure reflects the proportion of applications that result in a patent grant. The median days to allowance is 1080. This duration represents the time required for a successful application to reach a grant. Practitioners should account for this timeframe when planning their prosecution strategy and managing applicant expectations regarding the length of the process.

The interview lift is 11.7 percent. This metric shows that an interview is associated with an increase in the likelihood of an allowance. The positive lift suggests that direct communication is a successful method for overcoming rejections with this examiner. Applicants may use interviews to clarify technical points and potentially improve the outcome of their prosecution efforts in this art unit.

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

Performance Statistics

64.4%
Allow Rate
+6.4% vs TC avg
424
Total Applications
+11.7%
Interview Lift
1080
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 382 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.9%
§101 Eligibility
10.6%
§102 Novelty
53.3%
§103 Obviousness
19.6%
§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.
18016771 POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD 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.
19272885 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
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.
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
18762357 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING IMPROVED AMVP-MERGE MODE Non-Final OA KIA CORPORATION
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
17889530 Method, An Apparatus and A Computer Program Product for Video Encoding and Video Decoding Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
19056966 USING DIFFERENT SOURCES FOR BILATERAL FILTER IN VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
19056531 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.
19272686 TRANSFORM METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM 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.
19232120 MERGE MODE-BASED INTER-PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
17409580 EFFICIENT ENCODING OF FILM GRAIN NOISE Non-Final OA NETFLIX, INC.
18675857 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY

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