Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Zazzle Inc.

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

2
Hard (22%)
4
Medium (44%)
2
Easy (22%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (22%)
§103 only3 (33%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only2 (22%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
44% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 1 69.1% +25.9%
MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 1 55.9% +15.0%
PARCHER, DANIEL W 1 60.6% +59.4%
TSENG, CHENG YUAN 1 84.0% +15.3%
MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 1 34.3% +0.0%
LEVINE, ADAM L 1 35.7% +40.5%
STOICA, ADRIAN 1 68.0% +30.6%
MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 1 67.2% +13.6%
LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 1 77.1% -1.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18515899 DESIGN-AREA-BASED CONTEXTUAL RESIZING AND FILLING IN TSENG, CHENG YUAN 14d

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18817988 GENERATING AND USING TOKENS TO REQUEST SERVICES AND ACCESS TO A PRODUCT COLLABORATION PLATFORM LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 42d overdue
17955387 PATTERN GRADING LEVINE, ADAM L 12d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18817988 GENERATING AND USING TOKENS TO REQUEST SERVICES AND ACCESS TO A PRODUCT COLLABORATION PLATFORM LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 42d overdue
18411235 MOMENT-BASED GIFTS AND DESIGNS GENERATED USING A DIGITAL PRODUCT COLLABORATION PLATFORM PARCHER, DANIEL W 1d overdue
17827724 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING HIGH QUALITY RENDERINGS AND GENERATING MANUFACTURING OUTPUT OF CUSTOM PRODUCTS MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 8d
17955387 PATTERN GRADING LEVINE, ADAM L 12d
18515899 DESIGN-AREA-BASED CONTEXTUAL RESIZING AND FILLING IN TSENG, CHENG YUAN 14d
18739042 CONTAINERS FOR STORING AND TRANSMITTING REPRESENTATIONS OF CUSTOMIZABLE PRODUCTS MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 34d
17827725 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING HIGH QUALITY RENDERINGS AND GENERATING MANUFACTURING OUTPUT OF CUSTOM PRODUCTS STOICA, ADRIAN 57d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3689 2
3688 1
2174 1
2615 1
2187 1
2188 1
2189 1
3991 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18817988 GENERATING AND USING TOKENS TO REQUEST SERVICES AND ACCESS TO A PRODUCT COLLABORATION PLATFORM LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2024
18739042 CONTAINERS FOR STORING AND TRANSMITTING REPRESENTATIONS OF CUSTOMIZABLE PRODUCTS MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §102 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 10, 2024
18411235 MOMENT-BASED GIFTS AND DESIGNS GENERATED USING A DIGITAL PRODUCT COLLABORATION PLATFORM PARCHER, DANIEL W 2174 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18515899 DESIGN-AREA-BASED CONTEXTUAL RESIZING AND FILLING IN TSENG, CHENG YUAN 2615 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 21, 2023
17955392 PARAMETRIC MODELLING AND GRADING MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL 2187 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17955387 PATTERN GRADING LEVINE, ADAM L 3689 §101 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 28, 2022
17827725 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING HIGH QUALITY RENDERINGS AND GENERATING MANUFACTURING OUTPUT OF CUSTOM PRODUCTS STOICA, ADRIAN 2188 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending May 29, 2022
17827724 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING HIGH QUALITY RENDERINGS AND GENERATING MANUFACTURING OUTPUT OF CUSTOM PRODUCTS MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 2189 §112 Final Rejection 8d Pending May 29, 2022
17551616 AUTOMATED APPLICATION OF CUT THERMAL ADHESIVE FILMS LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 3991 §112 Non-Final OA 205d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2021

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