Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Zapata Computing Inc.

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

5
Hard (62%)
3
Medium (38%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other5 (62%)
§103 only3 (38%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
88% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAN, KYU HYUNG 3 50.0% +29.2%
HEFFINGTON, JOHN M 2 40.0% +30.2%
DUONG, HUY 1 68.5% +26.2%
HOANG, MICHAEL H 1 53.7% +23.9%
DIEP, DUY T 1 32.3% +19.3%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18617014 Enhancing Combinatorial Optimization with Quantum Generative Models HAN, KYU HYUNG
18498635 ENHANCING OPTIMIZATION WITH AN EVOLUTIONARY GENERATIVE ALGORITHM USING QUANTUM OR CLASSICAL GENERATIVE MODELS HAN, KYU HYUNG
17946554 QUANTUM-COMPUTING BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING GROUND-STATE PROPERTIES DUONG, HUY
17848301 APPLICATION BENCHMARK USING EMPIRICAL HARDNESS MODELS HOANG, MICHAEL H
17544415 ENHANCING COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION WITH QUANTUM GENERATIVE MODELS HAN, KYU HYUNG

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17525078 GENERATION OF HIGHER-RESOLUTION DATASETS WITH A QUANTUM COMPUTER DIEP, DUY T 51d overdue
18617014 Enhancing Combinatorial Optimization with Quantum Generative Models HAN, KYU HYUNG
18498635 ENHANCING OPTIMIZATION WITH AN EVOLUTIONARY GENERATIVE ALGORITHM USING QUANTUM OR CLASSICAL GENERATIVE MODELS HAN, KYU HYUNG
18324832 QUANTUM ENHANCED LEARNING AGENT HEFFINGTON, JOHN M
17946554 QUANTUM-COMPUTING BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING GROUND-STATE PROPERTIES DUONG, HUY
17848301 APPLICATION BENCHMARK USING EMPIRICAL HARDNESS MODELS HOANG, MICHAEL H
17691493 FLEXIBLE INITIALIZER FOR ARBITRARILY-SIZED PARAMETRIZED QUANTUM CIRCUITS HEFFINGTON, JOHN M
17544415 ENHANCING COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION WITH QUANTUM GENERATIVE MODELS HAN, KYU HYUNG

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2123 3
2145 2
2182 1
2100 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18617014 Enhancing Combinatorial Optimization with Quantum Generative Models HAN, KYU HYUNG 2123 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 26, 2024
18498635 ENHANCING OPTIMIZATION WITH AN EVOLUTIONARY GENERATIVE ALGORITHM USING QUANTUM OR CLASSICAL GENERATIVE MODELS HAN, KYU HYUNG §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2023
18324832 QUANTUM ENHANCED LEARNING AGENT HEFFINGTON, JOHN M 2145 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 26, 2023
17946554 QUANTUM-COMPUTING BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING GROUND-STATE PROPERTIES DUONG, HUY 2182 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 16, 2022
17848301 APPLICATION BENCHMARK USING EMPIRICAL HARDNESS MODELS HOANG, MICHAEL H 2100 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2022
17691493 FLEXIBLE INITIALIZER FOR ARBITRARILY-SIZED PARAMETRIZED QUANTUM CIRCUITS HEFFINGTON, JOHN M 2145 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 10, 2022
17544415 ENHANCING COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION WITH QUANTUM GENERATIVE MODELS HAN, KYU HYUNG 2123 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 07, 2021
17525078 GENERATION OF HIGHER-RESOLUTION DATASETS WITH A QUANTUM COMPUTER DIEP, DUY T 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2021

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