Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2482 2621

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.4%
Allow Rate
+15.4% vs TC avg
786
Total Applications
+11.7%
Interview Lift
1087
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 762 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.0%
§101 Eligibility
13.1%
§102 Novelty
75.9%
§103 Obviousness
0.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19160909 IMAGE DECODING AND ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
19022620 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UTILIZING SIMPLIFIED MPM LIST GENERATION METHOD, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
19022965 METHOD FOR PREDICTING SUBBLOCK-BASED TEMPORAL MOTION VECTOR AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18937174 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PDPC AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM Final Rejection Nokia Technologies Oy
18972703 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18900339 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
18763948 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
18727516 Method and Apparatus Deriving Merge Candidate from Affine Coded Blocks for Video Coding Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
19013125 MODIFICATION OF BEHAVIOR OR PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS THROUGH VISUAL STIMULATION Non-Final OA DANDELION SCIENCE CORP.
18949828 Devices, Systems, and Methods for Digital Microscopy Non-Final OA IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
18798466 FRAME SELECTION FOR STREAMING APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18962340 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE NAVIGATION USING ON-DEMAND DEEP LEARNING BASED SEGMENTATION Non-Final OA Digital Surgery Systems, Inc.
18628086 OPTICAL FLOW-BASED MOTION REFINEMENT Final Rejection Alibaba Innovation Private Limited
18684798 TEMPLATE MATCHING BASED MOTION VECTOR REFINEMENT IN VIDEO CODING SYSTEM Non-Final OA MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
18724114 METHOD FOR VIDEO ENCODING, METHOD FOR VIDEO DECODING, AND RELATED PRODUCT Final Rejection Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited
17451009 SYSTEM AND METHODS USING A VIDEOSCOPE WITH INDEPENDENT-ZOOM FOR ENABLING SHARED-MODE FOCUSING Non-Final OA SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.

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