Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: TRUONG, KARL DUC

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 2614 3645

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Analysis

Karl Duc Truong works in Tech Center 3600 and Art Unit 2614. He has overseen 51 resolved cases with an allowance rate of 64.7 percent. The median days to allowance for these applications is 993, establishing a timeframe for the resolution of successful cases. This 993 day period is a metric for practitioners to use when managing expectations in this unit.

The interview lift for this examiner is 34.3 percent. This data point shows that engaging in an interview is a tactic for increasing the probability of allowance compared to the 64.7 percent baseline. With 51 resolved cases, the impact of direct communication is recorded. Practitioners may find that the 34.3 percent lift is a factor when navigating prosecution with this examiner in Tech Center 3600 and Art Unit 2614. This data provides a basis for strategy.

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

Performance Statistics

63.5%
Allow Rate
+11.5% vs TC avg
82
Total Applications
+36.1%
Interview Lift
995
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 52 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.3%
§101 Eligibility
7.0%
§102 Novelty
87.3%
§103 Obviousness
2.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19193192 ELECTRONIC DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ANALYZING AND IMPROVING IMAGE QUALITY OF TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND IMAGE Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18999425 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING USER-CUSTOMIZED METAVERSE CONTENT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18518850 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD TO SELECT SCALER BASED ON IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18841708 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18355154 HYBRID REPRESENTATION FOR PHOTOREALISTIC SYNTHESIS, ANIMATION AND RELIGHTING OF HUMAN EYES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18965137 IMAGING DEVICE FOR COMPOSITING VIRTUAL IMAGE AND REAL IMAGE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF SAME Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18203106 IMAGE CLIPPING METHOD AND IMAGE CLIPPING SYSTEM Final Rejection SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
18035121 IMAGE RENDERING METHOD FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE DATA Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18463706 BITSTREAM SYNTAX FOR MESH DISPLACEMENT CODING Final Rejection TENCENT AMERICA LLC
18675247 Cloud Data Processing Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18036556 TRANSPARENCY RANGE FOR VOLUMETRIC VIDEO Final Rejection InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
18197327 Physical World Driven Environmental Themes for Avatars in Virtual/Augmented Reality Systems Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18961873 ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE Non-Final OA VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
19016539 MEDICAL SYSTEM, PORTABLE DISPLAY, METHOD FOR OPERATING A MEDICAL SYSTEM AND/OR A PORTABLE DISPLAY AND METHOD Non-Final OA KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG
18519521 Dynamically Allocated Memory-Backed Traversal Stack for Ray Tracing Hardware Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18988004 PERFORMANCE QUERIES IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING Non-Final OA Arm Limited
19011059 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUAL GENERATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18478040 SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE SHADING RATES FOR DECOUPLED SHADING Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
18917402 REAL-TIME AUGMENTED REALITY COSMETIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CALLS Final Rejection ELC MANAGEMENT LLC
18120622 SKIN CHARACTERISTIC DATA VISUALIZATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM Non-Final OA LG HOUSEHOLD & HEALTH CARE LTD.
18960592 ANGULAR PRIOR AND DIRECT CODING MODE FOR TREE REPRESENTATION CODING OF A POINT CLOUD Non-Final OA BlackBerry Limited

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