Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZUORA, INC. has 6 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's intellectual property strategy involves several different technical sub-specialties. The pending office actions are being reviewed by 6 distinct examiners, showing a distributed prosecution landscape where no single individual is managing multiple cases simultaneously. This variety in art units and examiners suggests that ZUORA, INC. is pursuing a diverse set of technical claims.
FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The ratio of examiners to pending office actions ensures that each matter is handled by a different official. With 4 distinct art units involved, the prosecution team must navigate various internal USPTO policies and standards across the Computing & Software domain. The review provided by FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH contributes to the specialized oversight required for the software portfolio, which includes the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest position.
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 only | 2 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH | 1 | 66.4% | +25.7% |
| CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 1 | 74.4% | +32.7% |
| DHRUV, DARSHAN I | 1 | 79.8% | +46.9% |
| SKHOUN, HICHAM | 1 | 77.1% | +5.5% |
| JAMES, GREGORY MARK | 1 | 19.4% | +14.2% |
| HAIDER, FAWAAD | 1 | 50.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13687650 | CONFIGURABLE BILLING WITH SUBSCRIPTIONS HAVING CONDITIONAL COMPONENTS | HAIDER, FAWAAD | 74d overdue |
| 19081262 | SELF-HEALING DATA SYNCHRONIZATION | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | — |
| 17554717 | EVENT OPTIMIZATION IN A MULTI-TENANT COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | JAMES, GREGORY MARK | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13687650 | CONFIGURABLE BILLING WITH SUBSCRIPTIONS HAVING CONDITIONAL COMPONENTS | HAIDER, FAWAAD | 74d overdue |
| 19207063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOM OBJECTS FOR A MULTI-TENANT PLATFORM WITH MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE | FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH | — |
| 19081262 | SELF-HEALING DATA SYNCHRONIZATION | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | — |
| 19043451 | CENTRALIZED DATA TRANSFORMATION IN A MULTI-TENANT COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | DHRUV, DARSHAN I | — |
| 17554717 | EVENT OPTIMIZATION IN A MULTI-TENANT COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | JAMES, GREGORY MARK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2154 | 1 |
| 2164 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOM OBJECTS FOR A MULTI-TENANT PLATFORM WITH MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE | FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19081262 | SELF-HEALING DATA SYNCHRONIZATION | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 2154 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19043451 | CENTRALIZED DATA TRANSFORMATION IN A MULTI-TENANT COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | DHRUV, DARSHAN I | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2025 |
| 18938643 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CUBING OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA IN A MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2164 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 17554717 | EVENT OPTIMIZATION IN A MULTI-TENANT COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | JAMES, GREGORY MARK | 3692 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
| 13687650 | CONFIGURABLE BILLING WITH SUBSCRIPTIONS HAVING CONDITIONAL COMPONENTS | HAIDER, FAWAAD | 3627 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2012 |
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