Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vertex Inc. manages 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending action. This distribution of actions to examiners and art units indicates that each pending matter is being treated as a unique case with no overlap in personnel or classification.
Practitioners cannot rely on consistency between these five matters as they are in 5 different art units. The presence of 5 pending office actions suggests a moderate level of active prosecution for the company in this technology sector. Because the actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners, the company must manage five separate sets of expectations and procedural preferences. This fragmentation requires a more individualized approach to each application rather than a unified strategy across the portfolio. The focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems indicates that the company's current innovation efforts are concentrated in these specific fields. The lack of examiner concentration means that no single individual, including SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD, has a dominant influence over the company's total pending outcomes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 1 | 58.0% | +48.7% |
| ORTIZ ROMAN, DENISSE Y | 1 | 52.5% | +31.4% |
| HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 1 | 44.4% | +28.6% |
| HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 1 | 68.4% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584719 | INDIRECT TAX LEGISLATION FILTER | ORTIZ ROMAN, DENISSE Y | 15d |
| 19053034 | GENERATION OF JURISDICTIONS LISTS FOR INPUT TEXT | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | — |
| 18327793 | SUSTAINABILITY PLANNER FOR REGULATED INDUSTRIES | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | — |
| 18058242 | GENERATION OF IRRELEVANCY SCORES FOR INPUT TEXT | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584719 | INDIRECT TAX LEGISLATION FILTER | ORTIZ ROMAN, DENISSE Y | 15d |
| 19053034 | GENERATION OF JURISDICTIONS LISTS FOR INPUT TEXT | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | — |
| 18327793 | SUSTAINABILITY PLANNER FOR REGULATED INDUSTRIES | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | — |
| 18058242 | GENERATION OF IRRELEVANCY SCORES FOR INPUT TEXT | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2658 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2124 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19053034 | GENERATION OF JURISDICTIONS LISTS FOR INPUT TEXT | SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD | 2658 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18584719 | INDIRECT TAX LEGISLATION FILTER | ORTIZ ROMAN, DENISSE Y | 3627 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18327793 | SUSTAINABILITY PLANNER FOR REGULATED INDUSTRIES | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18058242 | GENERATION OF IRRELEVANCY SCORES FOR INPUT TEXT | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 2124 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVertex Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Zeeshan Mahmood Shaikh has the most, with 1 of Vertex Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
