Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: DANG, PHILIP

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2424 2482 2488

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Analysis

Philip Dang is an examiner in Tech Center 2400 and Art Unit 2424, with 499 resolved cases. The data shows a strong allowance rate of 77.6 percent. Applicants can expect a median of 966 days to reach an allowance when prosecuting before this examiner. This duration is a key metric for budgeting and planning the lifecycle of an application in Tech Center 2400, where 77.6 percent of cases reach a favorable conclusion.

The interview lift of 29.8 percent indicates that personal communication is a productive tool for practitioners. This lift suggests that cases involving an interview are significantly more likely to be allowed than those without. This strategy may be particularly useful for resolving complex technical rejections within the 966-day median timeframe. Given the 77.6 percent baseline, an interview provides a substantial boost to an already favorable probability of success. Practitioners should leverage this 29.8 percent lift to streamline prosecution and potentially avoid unnecessary office actions.

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

Performance Statistics

77.6%
Allow Rate
+19.6% vs TC avg
543
Total Applications
+29.8%
Interview Lift
966
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 499 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.1%
§101 Eligibility
12.4%
§102 Novelty
54.2%
§103 Obviousness
25.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18571028 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING FEATURE INFORMATION ON BASIS OF GENERAL-PURPOSE TRANSFORMATION MATRIX, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
18699293 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTOURING A MEDICAL IMAGE AND REVIEWING EXISTING CONTOURS Non-Final OA Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
18923375 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING OF MAPPING FUNCTION OF CHROMA QUANTIZATION PARAMETER Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18035563 STEERABLE CAMERA ARRAY FOR HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
19195469 HIGH LEVEL SYNTAX FOR VIDEO CODING AND DECODING Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18930848 METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A TRANSFORMED BLOCK OF VIDEO SAMPLES Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
19254370 IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
18662598 RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18912076 GLOBAL VIRTUAL PLANES Final Rejection Oracle International Corporation
18487743 METHOD FOR CREATING SPARSE ISOBMFF HAPTICS TRACKS Non-Final OA TENCENT AMERICA LLC
18879761 A METHOD, AN APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18816085 APPARATUSES, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
19263997 INTRA SUB PARTITIONS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING COMBINED WITH MULTIPLE TRANSFORM SELECTION, MATRIX WEIGHTED INTRA PREDICTION OR MULTI-REFERENCE-LINE INTRA PREDICTION Non-Final OA InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
19272894 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
19073908 TRANSFORM METHOD AND DECODER Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18894443 VIDEO GENERATION USING FRAME-WISE TOKEN EMBEDDINGS Non-Final OA ADOBE INC.
19257041 MOTION ESTIMATION REGION FOR THE MERGE CANDIDATES Non-Final OA BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18644111 DYNAMIC RAM USING TRIPLE-MODE MEMORY CELL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCELERATOR USING THE SAME Non-Final OA Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
18959519 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE SIGNAL Non-Final OA INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
18959508 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE SIGNAL Non-Final OA INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
18898552 Spatial Nonuniformity and Shading Effects Mitigation Using Machine-Learning Models Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18563388 HIGH FREQUENCY SENSITIVE NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd.
18791299 LOW ENERGY PHOTON DETECTION WITH CMOS IMAGERS Non-Final OA SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
18753984 TRAFFIC IMAGE SENSOR MOVEMENT DETECTION AND HANDLING Final Rejection GridMatrix, Inc.

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