Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2482 2621
This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases
Christopher G. Findley is an examiner in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2482. He has reached a resolution in 777 cases. The data shows an allowance rate of 77.9 percent for these applications. This percentage indicates that more than three-quarters of the cases assigned to him result in a patent grant. Practitioners can use this 77.9 percent rate to gauge the generally positive outlook for applications in this technology area.
The impact of interviews on prosecution outcomes is shown by an interview lift of 11.6 percent. This metric suggests that direct communication with the examiner provides a notable increase in the probability of allowance. An interview lift of 11.6 percent indicates that verbal negotiation is a productive strategy for addressing rejections and clarifying claim language. Practitioners should consider scheduling an interview to leverage this potential benefit.
The median days to allowance for successful cases is 1079. This duration represents the middle value of the time taken from filing to the issuance of a patent. A median of 1079 days provides a specific timeline for applicants to consider when managing their patent portfolios. These metrics are based on 777 resolved cases, offering a data-grounded perspective on the examiner's historical prosecution patterns.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045833 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE | Final Rejection | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America |
| 19251891 | Sign Derivation in Block Vector Difference Signaling | Non-Final OA | Ofinno, LLC |
| 19301810 | REFERENCE PICTURE BOUNDARY EXTENSION BY EXTRAPOLATION | Non-Final OA | Tencent America LLC |
| 18937174 | VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PDPC AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | Non-Final OA | Nokia Technologies Oy |
| 18727516 | Method and Apparatus Deriving Merge Candidate from Affine Coded Blocks for Video Coding | Non-Final OA | MEDIATEK INC. |
| 19022542 | Motion Compensation Recoloring of Point Clouds | Final Rejection | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC |
| 19242345 | CODING AND DECODING OF VIDEO CODING MODES | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18763948 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 19334682 | VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | Non-Final OA | Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., LTD. |
| 19334688 | VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | Non-Final OA | GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD. |
| 18798466 | FRAME SELECTION FOR STREAMING APPLICATIONS | Final Rejection | Nvidia Corporation |
| 19247613 | ENDOSCOPE LIGHTING CONTROL WITH CAMERA EXTENSION | Non-Final OA | COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC |
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