Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2482 2621

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.1%
Allow Rate
+15.1% vs TC avg
780
Total Applications
+11.8%
Interview Lift
969
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 752 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.1%
§101 Eligibility
25.5%
§102 Novelty
52.6%
§103 Obviousness
5.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19019701 VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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
18972703 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA 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.
18684798 TEMPLATE MATCHING BASED MOTION VECTOR REFINEMENT IN VIDEO CODING SYSTEM Non-Final OA MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
18798466 FRAME SELECTION FOR STREAMING APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18875654 METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING Non-Final OA MBDA UK Limited
18981947 MOVING IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, MOVING IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM Non-Final OA Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
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
18724114 METHOD FOR VIDEO ENCODING, METHOD FOR VIDEO DECODING, AND RELATED PRODUCT Final Rejection Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited

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