Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

eBay Inc.

55 pending office actions • 32 art units • 51 examiners • 0 of 55 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 115 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

55
Total Pending OAs
26
Non-Final OAs
29
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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.

30
Hard (55%)
24
Medium (44%)
1
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only8 (15%)
§101 + other19 (35%)
§103 only21 (38%)
§102 only2 (4%)
Double-patenting only1 (2%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
12
Information Tech
22% of docket
9
Communications
16% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
29
Mechanical / Eng
53% of docket
5
Business / Other
9% 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.

550 h
Manual time on pending OAs
110 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
192 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GARG, YOGESH C 2 61.6% +33.2%
BARGEON, BRITTANY E 2 45.0% +33.7%
GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA 2 73.4% +14.2%
DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 2 30.0% +26.1%
ALAM, SHAHID AL 1 87.9% +14.5%
CIVAN, ETHAN D 1 68.5% +29.0%
VIG, NARESH 1 36.6% +43.4%
SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN 1 72.3% +36.2%
GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE 1 43.0% +51.8%
EBERSMAN, BRUCE I 1 64.1% +58.7%

Hard Cases (30)

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
18374324 FOOTWEAR AUTHENTICATION USING PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IMAGE ANALYSIS KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 119d overdue
17699400 BUNDLE CREATION FROM DESCRIPTION CONTENT USING MACHINE LEARNING RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 50d overdue
18930465 Virtual Account Use PUTTAIAH, ASHA 22d overdue
18826819 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF A MARKETPLACE POINVIL, FRANTZY 19d overdue
18510233 LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY PRODUCTS FOR COMPLETING A TASK DEFINED BY A SEARCH QUERY SINGH, AMRESH 4d overdue
18656941 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL FITTING ROOMS OR HYBRID STORES BARGEON, BRITTANY E 13d
18215792 TECHNIQUES FOR STORING UNIQUE ITEM CHARACTERISTICS AS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 16d
18397943 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CODE LOOKUP ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM LEVINE, ADAM L 75d

Interview Candidates (14)

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
18621579 PRODUCT IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA 19d overdue
18656941 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL FITTING ROOMS OR HYBRID STORES BARGEON, BRITTANY E 13d
18215792 TECHNIQUES FOR STORING UNIQUE ITEM CHARACTERISTICS AS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 16d
18811577 Different Action User-Interface Components In A Comparison View GARG, YOGESH C 56d
19287522 MANAGING DATABASE OFFSETS WITH TIME SERIES ALAM, SHAHID AL
19268370 PERSONALIZED DELIVERY TIME ESTIMATE SYSTEM CIVAN, ETHAN D
19089577 COMPLEMENTARY ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM GARG, YOGESH C
19073203 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER VALUATION AND MERCHANT BIDDING VIG, NARESH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3688 8
3689 5
3626 3
2619 3
3693 2
2141 2
3698 2
2161 1
2168 1
2673 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19287522 MANAGING DATABASE OFFSETS WITH TIME SERIES ALAM, SHAHID AL 2161 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 31, 2025
19268370 PERSONALIZED DELIVERY TIME ESTIMATE SYSTEM CIVAN, ETHAN D §101DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 14, 2025
19089577 COMPLEMENTARY ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM GARG, YOGESH C §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 25, 2025
19073203 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER VALUATION AND MERCHANT BIDDING VIG, NARESH DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2025
19070191 QUERY MODALITY RECOMMENDATION FOR SEARCH SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN 2168 §102§103Other Final Rejection Pending Mar 04, 2025
19007154 PERSONALIZED PARTS EXPERIENCES ON LISTING PLATFORMS GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE 3689 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 31, 2024
19004906 CROSS-DOMAIN SECURE AUTHENTICATION ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM EBERSMAN, BRUCE I 3693 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2024
19003897 MULTIMODAL LARGE LANGUAGE LEARNING MODEL FOR AUGMENTING LISTINGS BARGEON, BRITTANY E 3688 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2024
19000176 INTERACTIVE PRODUCT REVIEW INTERFACE SULLIVAN, THOMAS J §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2024
18986611 METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENT ONLINE PERSONAL ASSISTANT WITH IMAGE TEXT LOCALIZATION ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 3688 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18971560 ITEM BUNDLE SEARCHING BASED ON IMAGE SEGMENTATION CAI, PHUONG HAU 2673 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18968013 SELECTING OPTIONS ON A SCREEN USING GESTURES RAYAN, MIHIR K 2621 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 04, 2024
18968026 LLM-BASED LABELER DEVELOPMENT ENGINE KIM, JONATHAN C 2655 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2024
18959146 Dynamic Automatic Generation of Item Listings WARNER, PHILIP N 3624 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 25, 2024
18957975 Audio and Language Translation Between Computing Devices LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI 2656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 25, 2024
18932309 A SELF-LEARNING APPARATUS TO DETECT POSSIBLE FINANCIAL FRAUD BEHAVIOR WITHIN A PAYMENT PROCESSOR SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 30, 2024
18930465 Virtual Account Use PUTTAIAH, ASHA 3691 §101 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2024
18927648 CONCEPT REFINEMENT USING CONCEPT ACTIVATION VECTORS AIRAPETIAN, MILA 3688 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18917623 INTELLIGENT AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICES NGUYEN, QUYNH H 2693 §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18890396 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL ORDER PAYMENT BEHAVIOR USING GRAPH MODEL EMBEDDING AND ANOMALY DETECTION SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z 3694 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 19, 2024
18887992 IMAGE EVALUATION PATEL, JAYESH A §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 17, 2024
18826819 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF A MARKETPLACE POINVIL, FRANTZY 3693 §101 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18811577 Different Action User-Interface Components In A Comparison View GARG, YOGESH C 3688 §103Other Final Rejection 56d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18788023 Authenticating Items Using a Learning Model PINSKY, DOUGLAS W 3626 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 29, 2024
18784511 SYSTEM, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA, AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT COMPUTER SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY FOR LOCATING ITEMS OF INTEREST NEAR USERS KANG, TIMOTHY J 3689 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 25, 2024
18748727 MULTI-POINT RISK DETECTION FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSIONS HASBROUCK, MERRITT J 3695 §101§102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 20, 2024
18747145 PROGRESSIVE DECISIONING OF BEHAVIORAL RISK BY DYNAMICALLY ANALYZING AND SYNTHESIZING BEHAVIORAL FRAUD PATTERN FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 3689 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2024
18739655 Automatic detection and management of purchase of items in high demand WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 11, 2024
18735899 TRANSACTION SECURITY TECHNIQUES FIELDS, COURTNEY D 2436 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 06, 2024
18656941 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL FITTING ROOMS OR HYBRID STORES BARGEON, BRITTANY E 3688 §101Other Final Rejection 13d Pending May 07, 2024
18621579 PRODUCT IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA 2619 §103Other Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18607487 ITEM CONDITION VERIFICATION VETTER, DANIEL 3628 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 17, 2024
18587308 Virtual Environment Arrangement and Configuration MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §103Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18584116 AUTOMATIC ORDERING OF CONSUMABLE ITEMS LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2024
18683171 MAPPING MICRO-VIDEO HASHTAGS TO CONTENT CATEGORIES PADUA, NICO LAUREN 3626 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 12, 2024
18419241 Interactive Forums for Specific Regions of a Digital Image HOANG, PHI 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18397943 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CODE LOOKUP ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM LEVINE, ADAM L 3689 §101§102 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18397189 Relationship Modeling for Network Address Domains SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §101§103§112Other Final Rejection Pending Dec 27, 2023
18529143 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRESENTATION ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS 2178 §102 Final Rejection Pending Dec 05, 2023
18528282 Automatic Image Composition with Item Promotion VAN BRAMER, JOHN W 3622 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2023
18510233 LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY PRODUCTS FOR COMPLETING A TASK DEFINED BY A SEARCH QUERY SINGH, AMRESH 2159 §101§103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18388352 Auto Posting System MESA, JOSE M 2484 §103Other Final Rejection 161d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18490155 Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, and Digital Ticketing Systems GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA 2619 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 19, 2023
18486852 Mailer Assembly With Pockets HELVEY, PETER N. 3734 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 13, 2023
18374324 FOOTWEAR AUTHENTICATION USING PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IMAGE ANALYSIS KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18450260 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COMPLEMENTARY CONTENT ON LINKED MACHINES HASTY, NICHOLAS 2141 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 15, 2023
18218804 Injecting Faults by Instrumentation Code PAULINO, LENIN 2197 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 06, 2023
18216031 Context-Driven Generation of Diverse Questions GIDDINS, NELSON S 2408 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 29, 2023
18215792 TECHNIQUES FOR STORING UNIQUE ITEM CHARACTERISTICS AS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 3698 §101§103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18141149 DISPLAY ORIENTATION ADJUSTMENT USING FACIAL LANDMARK INFORMATION MEROUAN, ABDERRAHIM 2683 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 28, 2023
18300268 LOCATION-BASED SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MINTING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTS) DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 3698 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 13, 2023
18132748 Near Real-Time Feature Simulation for Online/Offline Point-in-Time Data Parity KIM, JONATHAN J 2141 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 10, 2023
17860065 ADAPTIVE SEARCH REFINEMENT GOFMAN, ALEX N 2163 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17743692 Auctions in Extended Reality Environments SMITH, LINDSEY B 3688 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending May 13, 2022
17699400 BUNDLE CREATION FROM DESCRIPTION CONTENT USING MACHINE LEARNING RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 3688 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2022

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