Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zenda LLC currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a spread of prosecution efforts across different technical specialties. The distribution of actions among these examiners shows that no individual is handling multiple active cases at this stage, which may allow for more individualized attention to each application during the review process.
Hamzeh M Obaid serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers multiple sub-sectors within the broader technology field. Practitioners should note that the pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, which requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for varying examiner perspectives and art unit norms. This diversity in examination environments implies that the company must maintain a flexible approach to its intellectual property strategy to address the specific requirements of each distinct administrative group.
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 | 38.3% | +22.4% |
| GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 1 | 35.3% | +35.5% |
| CAO, DIEM K | 1 | 80.5% | +18.8% |
| TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 1 | 36.1% | +16.3% |
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 |
| 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 | — | §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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