Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: SULLIVAN, TYLER

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2482 2487 4100

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

66.7%
Allow Rate
+6.7% vs TC avg
427
Total Applications
+31.0%
Interview Lift
1052
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 390 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.7%
§101 Eligibility
2.6%
§102 Novelty
47.7%
§103 Obviousness
30.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19252784 ENTROPY CODING OF TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS SUITABLE FOR DEPENDENT SCALAR QUANTIZATION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18558941 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
19141624 Pyramid Lattice Vector Quantization For Coding Motion Vector Differences Non-Final OA Google LLC
19209116 TRANSFORM KERNEL TYPE SELECTION FLEXIBILITY Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18260611 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18908584 CROSS-COMPONENT ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER FOR CHROMA Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
19177348 INTRA PREDICTOR AND INTRA MODE CODING Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
19030828 DEPENDENT QUANTIZER STATE ADAPTIVE ARITHMETIC CODING OF TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS Final Rejection Tencent America LLC
18379613 GEOMETRIC AFFINE MODE AND GEOMETRIC SUBBLOCK MODES Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18275322 MONITORING DEVICE, MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
19287781 IMAGE BASED ASSESSMENT FOR DENTAL TREATMENT MONITORING Non-Final OA Align Technology, Inc.
18878434 SIMPLIFICATION FOR CROSS-COMPONENT INTRA PREDICTION Final Rejection InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
18830023 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING INTRA PREDICTION FOR LARGE BLOCKS FOR VIDEO ENCODERS AND DECODERS Final Rejection InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
19022954 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VISUAL DATA PROCESSING Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
19021539 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION METHOD WITH PARALLEL PROCESSING Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
19017255 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
19199132 BINARIZATION OF INTER-PREDICTION MODE INDICATOR IN VIDEO CODING Final Rejection Texas Instruments Incorporated
17978976 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR SPECIFYING CONTENT OF CUSTOMER SERVICE Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
19287092 PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPACECRAFT Non-Final OA Institute For Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.

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