Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shutterstock Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are distributed among 6 examiners and 6 art units, indicating that the portfolio does not have a shared examiner or art-unit center of gravity.
RICHER, AARON M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each examiner carries the same pending-action load, so counsel may need matter-specific prosecution strategies rather than a single portfolio-wide approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 1 | 79.2% | +13.6% |
| RICHER, AARON M | 1 | 52.2% | +20.7% |
| ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 1 | 76.4% | +15.1% |
| CONNER, SEAN M | 1 | 78.7% | +26.4% |
| GUILIANO, CHARLES A | 1 | 37.3% | +37.4% |
| MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 1 | 46.8% | +24.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005067 | IMAGE GENERATION WITH LEARNED SUPERVISION | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | — |
| 19005148 | IMAGE GENERATION USING ORGANIC PROPERTIES | RICHER, AARON M | — |
| 18324408 | USER-CONTRIBUTOR RANKING AND MATCHING IN A CONTENT MARKETPLACE | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | — |
| 18314981 | SYSTEM FOR EXTRAPOLATING USER BEHAVIOR SIGNALS IN A DIGITAL ASSET MARKETPLACE USING DENSE VECTORS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005067 | IMAGE GENERATION WITH LEARNED SUPERVISION | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | — |
| 19005148 | IMAGE GENERATION USING ORGANIC PROPERTIES | RICHER, AARON M | — |
| 18935979 | BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | — |
| 18820636 | BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING | CONNER, SEAN M | — |
| 18324408 | USER-CONTRIBUTOR RANKING AND MATCHING IN A CONTENT MARKETPLACE | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | — |
| 18314981 | SYSTEM FOR EXTRAPOLATING USER BEHAVIOR SIGNALS IN A DIGITAL ASSET MARKETPLACE USING DENSE VECTORS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2699 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19005067 | IMAGE GENERATION WITH LEARNED SUPERVISION | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 2699 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19005148 | IMAGE GENERATION USING ORGANIC PROPERTIES | RICHER, AARON M | 2617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18935979 | BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 2669 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18820636 | BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING | CONNER, SEAN M | 2663 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18324408 | USER-CONTRIBUTOR RANKING AND MATCHING IN A CONTENT MARKETPLACE | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | 3623 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18314981 | SYSTEM FOR EXTRAPOLATING USER BEHAVIOR SIGNALS IN A DIGITAL ASSET MARKETPLACE USING DENSE VECTORS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 3682 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShutterstock Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Mekonen T Bekele has the most, with 1 of Shutterstock Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
