Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Bayes Pllc

Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

257 pending office actions • 28 clients • 226 examiners • 102 art units • 0 of 257 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Bayes PLLC has 241 pending office actions in Networking & Security and 4,070 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 91.71%, and the average is 2.67 office actions per allowance. The profile combines a substantial active docket with a defined historical application record.

The allowance rate supplies the reported outcome measure for resolved matters, while the action average indicates that allowance generally follows multiple examination exchanges. Practitioners can use the figures to plan for continued response activity in Networking & Security. The career application total provides context for the historical measures, but does not isolate outcomes for the pending docket.

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

Quality Metrics (n=4070 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.7%
Allowance Rate
n=4070
+0.40σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=4070
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=2269
-0.38σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=2269
861 days
Time to Allowance
n=2269
+4.8pp
Interview Lift
n=4070
24.2%
RCE Rate
n=4070
0.4%
Appeal Rate
n=4070

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

65.5%
§101 Overcome
n=168
72.8%
§102 Overcome
n=1473
71.9%
§103 Overcome
n=1832
75.1%
§112 Overcome
n=740

Specialization & Scale

H04W, H10B, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
31%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=4070
7
Practitioners
n=4070
581.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=4070

Portfolio Summary

257
Total Pending OAs
191
Non-Final OAs
52
Final Rejections
14
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
5
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 33 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (5)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

116
Hard (45%)
120
Medium (47%)
20
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (0%)
§101 + other8 (3%)
§103 only90 (35%)
§102 only26 (10%)
§112 only8 (3%)
Double-patenting only12 (5%)
Double-patenting + other4 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)107 (42%)
No statute on record1 (0%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
2% of docket
123
Information Tech
48% of docket
22
Communications
9% of docket
60
Semiconductors
23% of docket
30
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
18
Business / Other
7% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

2,570 h
Manual time on pending OAs
514 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
899 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
22.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM 4 9.5% +7.1%
HULKA, JAMES R 4 76.3% +11.9%
BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M 3 69.0% +14.0%
CHANG, DANIEL 3 64.8% +11.5%
OH, ANDREW CHUNG SUK 3 70.1% +14.4%
UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE 2 80.0% +9.0%
FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 2 77.9% +11.5%
HESS, MICHAEL J 2 43.4% +5.4%
SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID 2 84.1% +15.8%
LEE, SANG CHEON 2 54.3% +38.1%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19338760 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE —
19334649 IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE —
18987799 MULTI-LINK RECONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID —

Hard Cases (119)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17868655 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING TIME OF FLIGHT, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND LIDAR RICHTER, KARA 28d overdue
18618027 CODING/DECODING METHOD, CODE STREAM, CODER, DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM JEBARI, MOHAMMED 15d overdue
18594317 METHOD FOR FABRICATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING BURIED STOP LAYER IN SUBSTRATE REIDA, MOLLY KAY 13d
18388372 BREAST PUMP DEVICE FREHE, WILLIAM R 14d
17677144 LIDAR SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY SELECTING FIELD-OF-VIEWS TO SCAN WITH DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 19d
18750892 DRIVING CIRCUIT, MEMORY DEVICE USING DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND MEMORY SYSTEM STORMES, JOSEPH FIDELIS 27d
18144900 COIL INDUCTOR, POWER CONVERTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME HINSON, RONALD 39d
18515985 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGING STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M 40d

Interview Candidates (19)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19354315 VIDEO PICTURE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M —
19354349 VIDEO PICTURE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M —
19334688 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G —
19334682 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G —
19317708 VIDEO PICTURE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M —
19231948 MERGE MODE-BASED INTER-PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS CHANG, DANIEL —
19232120 MERGE MODE-BASED INTER-PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS CHANG, DANIEL —
18987799 MULTI-LINK RECONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID —

Client Portfolio (28 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
364519
248711
24668
24817
28256
28176
24865
28245
24685
24675

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19460314 TARGET FOLLOWING METHOD FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV), DEVICE, UAV, AND FLIGHT SYSTEM THEREOF Arashi Vision Inc. MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE 3663 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 27, 2026
19354315 VIDEO PICTURE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M 2487 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 09, 2025
19354349 VIDEO PICTURE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M 2487 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 09, 2025
19350255 POINT CLOUD ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. HOLDER, ANNER N 2484 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 06, 2025
19338760 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE 2481 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 24, 2025
19334688 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 2482 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 19, 2025
19334649 IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corjp., Ltd. UHL, LINDSAY JANE KILE 2481 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Sep 19, 2025
19334682 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G 2482 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 19, 2025
19317708 VIDEO PICTURE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunicaitons Corp., Ltd. BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M 2487 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 03, 2025
19310362 MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. ROJAS, MIDYS 2133 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 26, 2025
19298959 MEMORY DEVICE AND ITS OPERATING METHOD, MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. AHMED, ZUBAIR 2132 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 13, 2025
19297613 HIGH-PERFORMANCE INPUT BUFFER AND MEMORY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. PARIKH, KALPIT 2137 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 12, 2025
19293462 INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. OWENS, TSION B 2487 Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 07, 2025
19149951 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDICATING INTRA TEMPLATE MATCHING PREDICTION Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. MAHMUD, FARHAN 2483 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2025
19275837 ELECTRONIC DEVICES, MEMORY SYSTEMS, AND POWER CONTROL METHODS Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. MATIN, TASNIMA 2135 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 21, 2025
19273033 CHARGING BOX AND SHOOTING APPARATUS Arashi Vision Inc. AGGARWAL, YOGESH K 2637 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 17, 2025
19269624 ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, BITSTREAM, ENCODER, DECODER AND STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. ZEWEDE, ASTEWAYE GETTU 2481 §102DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 15, 2025
19261977 MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DATA CALCULATION WITH THE MEMORY DEVICE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 2132 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 07, 2025
19260426 AUTHORIZATION METHOD, AND DEVICE Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. RASUL, MUHAMMAD HASHIR 2492 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 04, 2025
19258768 VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. FEREJA, SAMUEL D 2487 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2025
19236428 IMAGE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 12, 2025
19236578 IMAGE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 12, 2025
19231948 MERGE MODE-BASED INTER-PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. CHANG, DANIEL 2487 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 09, 2025
19232120 MERGE MODE-BASED INTER-PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. CHANG, DANIEL 2487 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 09, 2025
19228573 MEMORY DEVICE AND PROGRAM OPERATION THEREOF Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. ROCHE, JOHN B 2184 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2025
19226715 VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, DECODER, ENCODER AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V 2486 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 03, 2025
19220676 PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER AND STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. CHIO, TAT CHI 2486 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 28, 2025
19211871 VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICES, SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. ANDERSON II, JAMES M 2425 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 19, 2025
19182794 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC MESH BASE GEOMETRY CODING SIGNALING FOR LIFTING PARAMETERS Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. SULLIVAN, TYLER 2487 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 18, 2025
19173686 ENCODING AND DECODING METHODS, ENCODER, DECODER, CODE STREAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. TORRENTE, RICHARD T 2485 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 08, 2025
19171513 ENCODING AND DECODING METHODS, ENCODER, DECODER, CODE STREAM, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. STREGE, JOHN B 2669 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 07, 2025
19087241 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. LUU, PHO M 2824 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 21, 2025
19082587 MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF AND POWER MANAGEMENT MODULE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. STOYNOV, STEFAN 2175 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 18, 2025
19080916 GAS DETECTION DEVICE AND REFRIGERANT SENSOR Hangzhou Sanhua Research Institute Co., Ltd. MA, KUN KAI 3763 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 16, 2025
19065779 MEMORY SYSTEMS, METHODS OF OPERATING THEREOF, MEMORY CONTROLLERS AND STORAGE MEDIUMS Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. ALSIP, MICHAEL 2139 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19065725 MEMORY SYSTEM, METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF, AND CONTROLLER Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 2825 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19062762 COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. HIDALGO, FERNANDO N 2827 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 25, 2025
19104518 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR DATA TRANSFER, DEVICE AND CHIP Innopeak Technology, Inc. LEE, GIL H 2454 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 18, 2025
19055325 MEMORY SYSTEM CONTROLLER, MEMORY AND OPERATION METHODS THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. TECHANE, MUNA A 2827 §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 17, 2025
19055352 MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. BEGUM, SULTANA 2824 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 17, 2025
19053383 CONNECTION CONTROL METHOD Guangzhou Shirui Electronics Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, DUSTIN §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 13, 2025
19037769 METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION AND DEVICE Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. ALMAGHAYREH, KHALID M 2492 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2025
18998364 PHOTOTHERAPY APPARATUS FOR TREATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE Danyang Huichuang Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. WELCH, WILLOW GRACE 3792 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 24, 2025
19028470 DEVICE HAVING PAGE BUFFER, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. HOANG, HUAN 2827 §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19021119 VOLTAGE HOLDING CIRCUIT, VOLTAGE HOLDING METHOD, POWER CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Shenzhen Megmeet Electrical Co., Ltd. BAUER, SCOTT ALLEN 2836 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
19011450 MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND READ OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. BUI, THA-O H 2825 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 06, 2025
19008622 LASER DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM Suteng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. RIDER, JUSTIN W 2486 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 02, 2025
19004924 CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETW ORK (CNN) FILTER FOR SUPER-RESOLUTION WITH REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING (RPR) FUNCTIONALITY Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. HSIEH, PING Y 2664 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19005927 METHOD FOR CELL HANDOVER, AND DEVICE Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. ABDULLAEV, ERKIN SHAVKATOVICH §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19003957 REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING (RPR) BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION GUIDED BY PARTITION INFORMATION Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. YENTRAPATI, AVINASH 2672 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2024

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91.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Bayes Pllc were allowed, across 4,070 applications in USPTO records.

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257 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 28 clients, before 226 examiners in 102 art units.

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