Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Airbnb Inc.

11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

9
Hard (82%)
1
Medium (9%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§101 + other7 (64%)
§103 only1 (9%)
§112 only1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
1
Communications
9% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
64% of docket
2
Business / Other
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SYED, FARHAN M 1 75.1% +23.2%
DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 1 38.6% +35.9%
NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 1 88.3% +11.0%
MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 1 56.0% +15.1%
PINSKY, DOUGLAS W 1 25.2% +16.8%
SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D 1 36.1% +45.8%
GOODMAN, MATTHEW PARKER 1 21.3% +30.9%
AUSTIN, JAMIE H 1 24.9% +32.7%
ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 1 74.0% +8.4%
SITTNER, MICHAEL J 1 11.1% +14.7%

Hard Cases (10)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17750787 NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS OF USER SENTIMENT BASED ON DATA OBTAINED DURING USER WORKFLOW ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 14d
17731509 AUTO-GENERATION OF ONLINE LISTING INFORMATION SITTNER, MICHAEL J 33d
19174545 HOST ACTION RANKING ENGINE FOR IMPROVED LISTINGS DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA
18910771 MIXTURE OF EXPERTS FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K
18653848 Systems, Methods and User Interfaces for Organizing Wish Lists in Online Marketplaces MISIASZEK, MICHAEL
18414974 MACHINE LEARNING VIRTUAL AGENT EVALUATION SYSTEM PINSKY, DOUGLAS W
18142172 MACHINE LEARNING GENERATED RANKING OF USER REVIEWS SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D
18136674 SPLIT STAYS RANKING AND MATCHING GOODMAN, MATTHEW PARKER

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17731509 AUTO-GENERATION OF ONLINE LISTING INFORMATION SITTNER, MICHAEL J 33d
19175615 SEARCHING ON PLATFORMS SYED, FARHAN M
19174545 HOST ACTION RANKING ENGINE FOR IMPROVED LISTINGS DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA
18910771 MIXTURE OF EXPERTS FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K
18653848 Systems, Methods and User Interfaces for Organizing Wish Lists in Online Marketplaces MISIASZEK, MICHAEL
18414974 MACHINE LEARNING VIRTUAL AGENT EVALUATION SYSTEM PINSKY, DOUGLAS W
18142172 MACHINE LEARNING GENERATED RANKING OF USER REVIEWS SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D
18136674 SPLIT STAYS RANKING AND MATCHING GOODMAN, MATTHEW PARKER

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3626 2
3628 2
2161 1
3688 1
3625 1
2659 1
3621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19175615 SEARCHING ON PLATFORMS SYED, FARHAN M 2161 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 10, 2025
19174545 HOST ACTION RANKING ENGINE FOR IMPROVED LISTINGS DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 09, 2025
18910771 MIXTURE OF EXPERTS FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2024
18653848 Systems, Methods and User Interfaces for Organizing Wish Lists in Online Marketplaces MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending May 02, 2024
18414974 MACHINE LEARNING VIRTUAL AGENT EVALUATION SYSTEM PINSKY, DOUGLAS W 3626 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2024
18142172 MACHINE LEARNING GENERATED RANKING OF USER REVIEWS SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D 3626 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 02, 2023
18136674 SPLIT STAYS RANKING AND MATCHING GOODMAN, MATTHEW PARKER 3628 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 19, 2023
17983294 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING SEARCH RESULTS AUSTIN, JAMIE H 3625 §101 Final Rejection Pending Nov 08, 2022
17750787 NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS OF USER SENTIMENT BASED ON DATA OBTAINED DURING USER WORKFLOW ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A 2659 §101§103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 23, 2022
17731509 AUTO-GENERATION OF ONLINE LISTING INFORMATION SITTNER, MICHAEL J 3621 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 33d Pending Apr 28, 2022
17658798 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING USER INTERACTION DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING TO ORGANIZE SEARCH RESULTS CLARE, MARK C 3628 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 11, 2022

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