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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zs Associates Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters span 4 examiners and 4 art units, so each reported action has its own examination assignment.
NOVAK, REBECCA R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The workload is evenly distributed, making coordinated deadline management important while leaving substantive strategy to the individual matter records.
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 only | 3 (75%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVAK, REBECCA R | 1 | 5.9% | +6.7% |
| LEE, WILLIAM MICHAEL | 1 | — | — |
| BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 1 | 36.1% | +32.5% |
| GO, JOHN PHILIP | 1 | 33.9% | +43.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18102619 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING TO CALCULATE A PATIENT BURDEN SCORE FOR PARTICIPATION IN A CLINICAL TRIAL | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 2d overdue |
| 18103711 | ELECTRONIC PLATFORM FOR PRESENTING BURDEN SCORES FOR PARTICIPATION IN A CLINICAL TRIAL | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 26d |
| 18439958 | ELECTRONIC PLATFORM FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-MODEL ARCHITECTURE FOR LINKING SPEAKER AND ATTENDEE ENTITY PROFILES | NOVAK, REBECCA R | — |
| 18407056 | MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR DETECTING EARLY ADOPTERS | LEE, WILLIAM 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18102619 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING TO CALCULATE A PATIENT BURDEN SCORE FOR PARTICIPATION IN A CLINICAL TRIAL | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 2d overdue |
| 18103711 | ELECTRONIC PLATFORM FOR PRESENTING BURDEN SCORES FOR PARTICIPATION IN A CLINICAL TRIAL | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18439958 | ELECTRONIC PLATFORM FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-MODEL ARCHITECTURE FOR LINKING SPEAKER AND ATTENDEE ENTITY PROFILES | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 3629 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18407056 | MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR DETECTING EARLY ADOPTERS | LEE, WILLIAM MICHAEL | 2145 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18103711 | ELECTRONIC PLATFORM FOR PRESENTING BURDEN SCORES FOR PARTICIPATION IN A CLINICAL TRIAL | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 3682 | §101 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 18102619 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING TO CALCULATE A PATIENT BURDEN SCORE FOR PARTICIPATION IN A CLINICAL TRIAL | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 3681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZs Associates Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Rebecca R Novak has the most, with 1 of Zs Associates Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
