Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BLACKBIRD PLC has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, each located within a different art unit, for a total of 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's networking applications are being evaluated by multiple specialized groups. The involvement of 2 distinct art units requires the company to manage different examination styles and standards simultaneously.
CHANG, DANIEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given the total of 2 pending actions, the workload is divided equally among the examiners. This structure requires the company to manage the pending office actions by addressing the specific technical feedback of the 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor the 2 distinct art units for divergent requirements that may arise during the prosecution of these networking technologies. This oversight is necessary to maintain consistency across the Networking & Security filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, DANIEL | 1 | 64.4% | +11.7% |
| SAINT CYR, JEAN D | 1 | 61.0% | +8.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18997039 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | CHANG, DANIEL | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18997039 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | CHANG, DANIEL | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18705568 | METHOD FOR TRACKING DISTRIBUTION OF A SHARED DIGITAL MEDIA FILE | SAINT CYR, JEAN D | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2024 |
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