Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: LIMA, FABIO S

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 2482 2486 2872 3645

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.4%
Allow Rate
+25.4% vs TC avg
463
Total Applications
+14.1%
Interview Lift
830
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 433 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.0%
§101 Eligibility
16.5%
§102 Novelty
49.9%
§103 Obviousness
20.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19052112 VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND DEVICE USING SAME Final Rejection LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18960935 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING IMAGE BY USING AI ENCODING/DECODING, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18579294 RELEASE MECHANISM Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18530090 POINT CLOUD ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, POINT CLOUD ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RELATED DEVICE Non-Final OA VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
19096947 SCALING-ONLY AFFINE MODE Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18923398 Explicit Address Signaling In Video Coding Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
19094653 MONITORING DEVICE, SUSPICIOUS OBJECT DETECTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
19228292 MOTION VECTOR DERIVATION IN VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING Non-Final OA InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
19080448 Signaling Of Subpicture Level And Buffering Information Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
18288167 METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
19256896 CCLM PREDICTION-BASED IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN IMAGE CODING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18785150 VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING BASED ON SIGNALING OF SCALING LIST DATA Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18880467 GENERATING ENCODED VIDEO DATA AND DECODED VIDEO DATA Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18756092 METHODS AND DEVICES ON PROBABILITY CALCULATION FOR CONTEXT-BASED ADAPTIVE BINARY ARITHMETIC CODING Non-Final OA BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
19180628 METHOD FOR ENCODING, METHOD FOR DECODING, AND DECODER Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
19119010 VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION
17514365 Methods for sharing private video streams with first responders under facility administrator control Non-Final OA EAGLE EYE NETWORKS, INC.
18900539 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND PLAYBACK OF HIGHER RESOLUTION DIGITAL CINEMA CONTENT Final Rejection GDC Technology Limited

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