Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each active case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the applicant to manage separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
Both pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, providing a consistent administrative environment despite the different examiners. CUTLER, ALBERT H is the busiest examiner, though they only manage 1 pending office action. This split of the active cases ensures that no single examiner has total control over the company's current prosecution pipeline.
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 | 81.2% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2138 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172863 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD AND APPARATUS | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — | §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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