Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zenda LLC has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, OBAID, HAMZEH M, is responsible for 1 pending office action, which shows that the workload is evenly divided among the assigned staff. With 4 distinct art units involved for 4 pending office actions, the company's innovations are being reviewed in different specialized contexts within the mechanical systems sector.
For practitioners, this means there is no concentration of cases that would allow for a unified strategy. Each of the 4 pending office actions must be prosecuted independently, taking into account the specific standards of the 4 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that Zenda LLC is pursuing a broad range of technologies that do not fit into a single narrow classification. Since each of the 4 distinct examiners handles only 1 pending office action, there is no opportunity to leverage a relationship with a single examiner to resolve multiple actions. Each of the 4 pending office actions must be treated as an independent negotiation, requiring a customized strategy that addresses the specific technical and procedural requirements of each distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (75%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 37.9% | +21.8% |
| GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 1 | 35.2% | +35.9% |
| CAO, DIEM K | 1 | 80.6% | +18.7% |
| TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 1 | 35.6% | +16.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763434 | UNIFIED EVENT DESCRIPTIONS FOR PROCESS FLOW DATA | CAO, DIEM K | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887967 | AUTOMATED PROCESS FLOW MODEL-DRIVEN CREATION OF A WORK IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICATION | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 23d overdue |
| 19012285 | CAPTURING DATA AND MATERIAL CHANGES FOR PROCESS FLOW MODELS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 5d |
| 18392554 | DYNAMIC PROCESS MODELING | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887967 | AUTOMATED PROCESS FLOW MODEL-DRIVEN CREATION OF A WORK IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICATION | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 23d overdue |
| 19012285 | CAPTURING DATA AND MATERIAL CHANGES FOR PROCESS FLOW MODELS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 5d |
| 18763434 | UNIFIED EVENT DESCRIPTIONS FOR PROCESS FLOW DATA | CAO, DIEM K | — |
| 18392554 | DYNAMIC PROCESS MODELING | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012285 | CAPTURING DATA AND MATERIAL CHANGES FOR PROCESS FLOW MODELS | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18887967 | AUTOMATED PROCESS FLOW MODEL-DRIVEN CREATION OF A WORK IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICATION | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 3619 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18763434 | UNIFIED EVENT DESCRIPTIONS FOR PROCESS FLOW DATA | CAO, DIEM K | 2196 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18392554 | DYNAMIC PROCESS MODELING | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 3628 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZenda LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Hamzeh M Obaid has the most, with 1 of Zenda LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
