Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Albert Kir, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as KIR, ALBERT

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2482 2485 2489

This examiner grants 68% of resolved cases

Analysis

Albert Kir works in Tech Center 2400 and Art Unit 2482. The profile records 535 resolved cases, a 68.2% allowance rate, and a median of 982 days to allowance. The interview lift is 16.9%, indicating a positive association between interviews and allowance in this dataset.

The listed companies are LG Electronics Inc., Qualcomm Incorporated, and Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited. The listed firms are Astute IP Law Group, Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A., and ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP. Practitioners may view interviews as a useful supplement to written prosecution in this docket, while the 68.2% allowance rate remains the broader outcome measure. The 982-day median also supports addressing prosecution duration when planning filing and response schedules.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

68.2%
Allow Rate
+10.2% vs TC avg
574
Total Applications
+16.9%
Interview Lift
982
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 535 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.6%
§101 Eligibility
20.7%
§102 Novelty
49.3%
§103 Obviousness
14.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19075061 Encoder, Decoder and Methods Thereof for Video Encoding and Decoding Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
19061953 CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
19293905 BDPCM-BASED IMAGE DECODING METHOD FOR LUMA COMPONENT AND CHROMA COMPONENT, AND DEVICE FOR SAME Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
19285029 IMAGE CODING METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
18858190 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE ON BASIS OF CONVOLUTIONAL CROSS-COMPONENT MODEL (CCCM) PREDICTION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
18505090 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-STORAGE VIDEO PROCESSING Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18579861 MANAGING AN EARLY DATA COMMUNICATION CONFIGURATION Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18860178 METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATION Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
19270994 TEMPLATE SELECTION FOR INTRA PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
19240621 HYBRID INTER BI-PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18674799 TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION TO PORT MAPPING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18855550 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA KIA CORPORATION
19250011 PALETTE PREDICTOR GENERATION AND SIGNALING Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
19234152 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECODING INCLUDING NETWORK ABSTRACTION LAYER UNIT STRUCTURE WITH PICTURE HEADER Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18905875 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18568108 METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18422695 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING BASED ON ASYMMETRIC BINARY PARTITIONING OF IMAGE BLOCKS Final Rejection InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
18710387 MECHANISMS FOR THE REPORTING OF EBCS NEIGHBOR ACCESS POINTS AND THEIR AVAILABLE SERVICE Final Rejection INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
19473351 SIGNALING INFORMATION ABOUT MULTIPLE POST PROCESSING FILTERS Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18394445 IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA KDDI CORPORATION
18873877 RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD FOR SSB BEAMS, NETWORK DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Albert Kir's allowance rate?

68.2% of resolved applications examined by Albert Kir were allowed (535 resolved cases), compared with 68.4% across Art Unit 2482 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Albert Kir?

This examiner's interview lift is +16.9 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Albert Kir take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Albert Kir took 982 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Albert Kir work in?

Albert Kir examines applications in Art Unit 2482 in Tech Center 2400 (Networking & Security).

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