Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: GADOMSKI, STEFAN J

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2425 2485 2489

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

76.1%
Allow Rate
+18.1% vs TC avg
440
Total Applications
+7.3%
Interview Lift
971
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 415 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.7%
§101 Eligibility
8.5%
§102 Novelty
80.6%
§103 Obviousness
5.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18998260 IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18897028 IMAGE FILE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND GENERATION METHOD Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18827712 VIDEO CODING APPARATUS AND DECODING APPARATUS Final Rejection SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
19021520 THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA STORAGE METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ACQUISITION METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA STORAGE DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ACQUISITION DEVICE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18917242 DECODING METHOD, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, AND ENCODING DEVICE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
19043678 DERIVATION PROCESS FOR CHAINED MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
19020338 BITRATE AND PIPELINE PRESERVATION FOR CONTENT PRESENTATION Non-Final OA OpenTV, Inc.
18854251 SIGN AND DIRECTION PREDICTION IN TRANSFORM SKIP AND BDPCM Final Rejection InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
19061106 MESH DECODING DEVICE, MESH DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA KDDI CORPORATION
19031467 ELECTRONIC DEVICE OR METHOD OF THE SAME FOR PROVIDING EMOTICON GENERATING Non-Final OA CODEVISION INC.
18968705 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR VIDEO RETRIEVAL Non-Final OA LiveView Technologies, LLC
18939338 GENERATING BRANCHING CANDIDATE VIDEO ELEMENTS Non-Final OA Spotter, Inc.
18655181 OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR A CAMERA AND CAMERA HAVING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM Final Rejection Carl Zeiss AG
17405790 AUTO-CALIBRATING N-CONFIGURATION VOLUMETRIC CAMERA CAPTURE ARRAY Non-Final OA Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

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