Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: KIR, ALBERT

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2485 2489

This examiner grants 68% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

68.0%
Allow Rate
+10.0% vs TC avg
553
Total Applications
+16.3%
Interview Lift
988
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 522 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.6%
§101 Eligibility
20.7%
§102 Novelty
49.4%
§103 Obviousness
15.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18799627 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING SELECTION OF STANDALONE NON-PUBLIC NETWORK BY USER EQUIPMENT Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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
19061953 CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
18904743 CROSS COMPONENT PREDICTION MERGE CANDIDATE DERIVATION AND FUSION IN CHROMA CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
19023018 VIDEO CODING WITH TRAINING-BASED CODING TOOL Final Rejection Tencent America LLC
18812874 INTRA BLOCK COPY Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18991903 VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DEVICE Final Rejection Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18727914 TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD Non-Final OA NTT DOCOMO, INC.
19200073 DEEP INTRA PREDICTION OF AN IMAGE BLOCK Non-Final OA InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS
18422695 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING BASED ON ASYMMETRIC BINARY PARTITIONING OF IMAGE BLOCKS Final Rejection InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
19063243 ADAPTIVE STREAMING OF GEOMETRY-BASED POINT CLOUDS Non-Final OA InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
18905875 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18593696 METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
18568108 METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
19075061 Encoder, Decoder and Methods Thereof for Video Encoding and Decoding Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18737844 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CROSS-COMPONENT PREDICTION FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18855550 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Non-Final OA KIA CORPORATION

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