Listed by the USPTO as HESS, MICHAEL J
Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2481
This examiner grants 43% of resolved cases
HESS, MICHAEL J has resolved 438 cases in tech center 2400 and art unit 2481. The allowance rate is 43.4%, and the interview lift is 5.4%. The median time to allowance is 1321 days. The profile indicates a lower allowance result and an extended timeline, while the interview measure does not show a large recorded change.
Bytedance Inc., LG Electronics Inc., and InterDigital Inc. are the leading companies. Astute IP Law Group, Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP, and Bayes PLLC are the listed firms. Practitioners handling communications or digital-media matters may use this record to plan for sustained prosecution and focused claim responses.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006109 | IMAGING APPARATUS | Non-Final OA | FUJIFILM Corporation |
| 19057037 | TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAME | Non-Final OA | LG ELECTRONICS INC. |
| 18984222 | METHOD FOR TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE CODING AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | Non-Final OA | LG Electronics Inc. |
| 18837061 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | Non-Final OA | LG Electronics Inc. |
| 18704707 | NON-SEPARABLE PRIMARY TRANSFORM DESIGN METHOD AND APPARATUS | Non-Final OA | LG Electronics Inc. |
| 17790928 | TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE CODING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR | Non-Final OA | LG ELECTRONICS INC. |
| 19085144 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR, AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | Non-Final OA | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO, LTD. |
| 19085108 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR, AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | Non-Final OA | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. |
| 18900282 | ADJUSTING THE ZOOM LEVEL OF CONTENT | Final Rejection | Apple Inc. |
| 18603138 | Encoding and Decoding Video Content Using Flexible Coefficient Position Signaling | Final Rejection | Apple Inc. |
| 18915873 | VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE | Final Rejection | LG Display Co., Ltd. |
| 19258943 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | Non-Final OA | Sony Group Corporation |
| 18656619 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | Non-Final OA | Sony Corporation |
| 18840209 | MODEL GENERATION APPARATUS, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Final Rejection | NEC Corporation |
| 19037496 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE | Non-Final OA | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America |
| 19209258 | OPTICAL SYSTEM | Non-Final OA | Actutek Corporation |
| 18372182 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Final Rejection | HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. |
| 17477257 | SUBPICTURE ENTITY GROUPS IN VIDEO CODING | Final Rejection | Lemon Inc. |
| 18649724 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18438028 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING | Final Rejection | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18535903 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING | Final Rejection | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18527988 | Initialization Of Palette For Wavefront Parallel Processing | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18526632 | ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18513020 | Palette Mode For Local Dual Tree | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18561690 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18506313 | JOINT USE OF ADAPTIVE COLOUR TRANSFORM AND DIFFERENTIAL CODING OF VIDEO | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18503754 | SIZE RESTRICTION BASED ON COLOR FORMAT | Non-Final OA | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18492944 | CLIPPING IN REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING | Final Rejection | Bytedance Inc. |
| 18689407 | CHROMA PREDICTION FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING BASED ON TEMPLATE MATCHING | Non-Final OA | InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS |
| 18568155 | CODING OF LAST SIGNIFICANT COEFFICIENT IN A BLOCK OF A PICTURE | Final Rejection | InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS |
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Build Your Strategy43.4% of resolved applications examined by Michael J Hess were allowed (438 resolved cases), compared with 66.0% across Art Unit 2481 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +5.4 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Michael J Hess took 1,321 days on average from filing to allowance.
Michael J Hess examines applications in Art Unit 2481 in Tech Center 2400 (Networking & Security).
