Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently active for this portfolio. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing an even split of the company's pending legal workload. This distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's current applications in the Communications field are being reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is CUTLER, ALBERT H. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, CUTLER, ALBERT H handles 1 of these actions. For the company, this means that the active prosecution workload is shared between 2 distinct examiners, which may provide different perspectives on the company's intellectual property across the 2 distinct art units involved in the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUTLER, ALBERT H | 1 | 79.4% | +21.1% |
| CHBOUKI, TAREK | 1 | 81.3% | +23.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19172415 | READING AND/OR WRITING MEDIA FILES | CHBOUKI, TAREK | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19172863 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD AND APPARATUS | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — |
| 19172415 | READING AND/OR WRITING MEDIA FILES | CHBOUKI, TAREK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2138 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172863 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD AND APPARATUS | CUTLER, ALBERT H | 2637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19172415 | READING AND/OR WRITING MEDIA FILES | CHBOUKI, TAREK | 2138 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBlackmagic Design Pty Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Albert H Cutler has the most, with 1 of Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
