Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
DoorDash Inc. currently has 9 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. The use of 8 distinct examiners for 9 pending office actions shows that most matters are being reviewed by different individuals. The 5 distinct art units indicate that the company's filings in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems cover several different technical categories at the USPTO.
STEPHANIE SHOSHANA WALLICK is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This is the only examiner handling multiple matters, as the remaining 9 pending office actions are split among the other 8 distinct examiners. Managing 9 pending office actions across 5 distinct art units requires the company to address a variety of examiner perspectives and technical standards. The concentration of 2 pending office actions under STEPHANIE SHOSHANA WALLICK allows for a slightly more consolidated approach for those specific filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (75%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 2 | 29.3% | +37.6% |
| MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 1 | 50.6% | +33.1% |
| SIMPSON, DIONE N | 1 | 32.6% | +32.4% |
| GREGORY, BERNARR E | 1 | 90.5% | +6.7% |
| KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE | 1 | 56.0% | +38.7% |
| THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 1 | 73.4% | +13.3% |
| BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 1 | 45.0% | +34.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830281 | FOOD DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION | KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE | 45d overdue |
| 19072540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING USING WEIGHT DATA | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 17d overdue |
| 19202873 | EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE RETURN PACKAGE DELIVERIES WITH DISTRIBUTED FLEET | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | — |
| 19067414 | NEXT GEN ETA MACHINE LEARNING (ML) SYSTEM | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | — |
| 18982207 | API FOR REMOTE MONITORING OF APPLICATION INTERACTION | SIMPSON, DIONE N | — |
| 18906063 | SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS AND AUTOMATED DELIVERY VEHICLES TO COMMUNICATE WITH THIRD PARTIES | GREGORY, BERNARR E | — |
| 18585663 | GENERATING MAPPING INFORMATION BASED ON IMAGE LOCATIONS | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830281 | FOOD DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION | KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE | 45d overdue |
| 18360204 | ITEM AGGREGATION WITH DATA CONVERSION | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 38d overdue |
| 19072540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING USING WEIGHT DATA | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 17d overdue |
| 19202873 | EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE RETURN PACKAGE DELIVERIES WITH DISTRIBUTED FLEET | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | — |
| 19067414 | NEXT GEN ETA MACHINE LEARNING (ML) SYSTEM | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | — |
| 18982207 | API FOR REMOTE MONITORING OF APPLICATION INTERACTION | SIMPSON, DIONE N | — |
| 18585663 | GENERATING MAPPING INFORMATION BASED ON IMAGE LOCATIONS | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 3 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202873 | EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE RETURN PACKAGE DELIVERIES WITH DISTRIBUTED FLEET | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | — | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19072540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING USING WEIGHT DATA | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 3628 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19067414 | NEXT GEN ETA MACHINE LEARNING (ML) SYSTEM | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18982207 | API FOR REMOTE MONITORING OF APPLICATION INTERACTION | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 3628 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18906063 | SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS AND AUTOMATED DELIVERY VEHICLES TO COMMUNICATE WITH THIRD PARTIES | GREGORY, BERNARR E | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18830281 | FOOD DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION | KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18585663 | GENERATING MAPPING INFORMATION BASED ON IMAGE LOCATIONS | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 2672 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18360204 | ITEM AGGREGATION WITH DATA CONVERSION | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
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