Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HODGES, SUSAN E

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2425 2489

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

66.6%
Allow Rate
+8.6% vs TC avg
409
Total Applications
+14.6%
Interview Lift
960
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 377 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.0%
§101 Eligibility
11.4%
§102 Novelty
86.3%
§103 Obviousness
0.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18692814 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD USING OBMC, AND DEVICE THEREFOR Final Rejection WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
18695684 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREON Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
18677734 IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18710816 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STREAMING VIDEO FROM A SCANNING SESSION Final Rejection 3SHAPE A/S
17552295 FEATURES OF RANGE ASYMMETRIC NUMBER SYSTEM ENCODING AND DECODING Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18753068 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
18670927 CACHE CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
18625670 REFERENCE BLOCK FUSION USING DERIVED VECTORS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18994920 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA KIA CORPORATION
19033120 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED ADAPTIVE IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION METHOD WITH VARIABLE RATE Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18749455 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18860219 Method and Apparatus for Decoder-Side Motion Derivation in Video Coding System Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
19058985 TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING BOTH SCALAR QUANTIZATION AND TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATION WHEN ENCODING VIDEO DATA Non-Final OA NETFLIX, INC.
19006667 LEARNING BASED METHODS FOR REAL-TIME OMNIDIRECTIONAL VIDEO STREAMING Non-Final OA Technology Innovation Institute - Sole Proprietorship LLC
18784879 METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A STEREOSCOPIC MEDICAL MICROSCOPE, AND MEDICAL MICROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT Final Rejection Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
18708245 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE ANALYSIS Final Rejection FORESIGHT AUTOMOTIVE LTD.
17963362 DETECTION CIRCUIT FOR ADJUSTING WIDTH OF OUTPUT PULSES, RECEIVING UNIT, LASER RADAR Final Rejection Hesai Technology Co., Ltd.

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