Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zapata Computing Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing a relatively broad spread of examination across different technical groups at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HOANG, MICHAEL H, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner only handles 1 of the active cases, the workload is distributed among the various examiners assigned to the company's applications.
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 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOANG, MICHAEL H | 1 | 54.8% | +23.1% |
| HEFFINGTON, JOHN M | 1 | 39.9% | +30.0% |
| HAN, KYU HYUNG | 1 | 43.8% | +36.7% |
| DIEP, DUY T | 1 | 37.1% | +23.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17848301 | APPLICATION BENCHMARK USING EMPIRICAL HARDNESS MODELS | HOANG, MICHAEL H | — |
| 17544415 | ENHANCING COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION WITH QUANTUM GENERATIVE MODELS | HAN, KYU HYUNG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17525078 | GENERATION OF HIGHER-RESOLUTION DATASETS WITH A QUANTUM COMPUTER | DIEP, DUY T | 51d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2123 | 2 |
| 2100 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Non-Final OA | — | 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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