Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

EBAY INC.

46 pending office actions • 26 art units • 41 examiners • 0 of 46 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 115 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

46
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
30
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 45 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

27
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 45 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (27)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (4)

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.

8
Hard (17%)
34
Medium (74%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only8 (17%)
§103 only30 (65%)
§102 only3 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record4 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
20% of docket
3
Communications
7% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
34
Mechanical / Eng
74% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

460 h
Manual time on pending OAs
92 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
161 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BARGEON, BRITTANY E 2 44.9% +34.6%
GARG, YOGESH C 2 61.6% +33.4%
CLARE, MARK C 2 13.0% +18.9%
RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 2 33.3% +48.7%
FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 2 24.7% +24.4%
OBERLY, VAN HONG 1 75.1% +15.6%
HERSHLEY, MARK E 1 78.2% +18.8%
DAGNEW, SABA 1 37.6% +17.7%
PUTTAIAH, ASHA 1 20.7% +21.0%
CIVAN, ETHAN D 1 68.2% +29.2%

Hard Cases (11)

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
17846509 FAST 3D MODEL FITTING AND ANTHROPOMETRICS USING SYNTHETIC DATA ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 140d overdue
18213489 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER VALUATION AND MERCHANT BIDDING VIG, NARESH 138d overdue
18374324 FOOTWEAR AUTHENTICATION USING PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IMAGE ANALYSIS KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 119d overdue
18749596 BRAND-FOCUSED LISTING MANGEMENT ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM CLARE, MARK C 30d overdue
18749602 BRAND-FOCUSED SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM CLARE, MARK C 30d overdue
18519794 GENERATING REPLACEMENT QUERIES FOR ALTERNATE LISTINGS WITH DESIRED ITEM ATTRIBUTES FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 29d overdue
18930465 Virtual Account Use PUTTAIAH, ASHA 22d overdue
18826819 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF A MARKETPLACE POINVIL, FRANTZY 19d overdue

Interview Candidates (15)

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
17699400 BUNDLE CREATION FROM DESCRIPTION CONTENT USING MACHINE LEARNING RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 50d overdue
18749596 BRAND-FOCUSED LISTING MANGEMENT ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM CLARE, MARK C 30d overdue
18749602 BRAND-FOCUSED SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM CLARE, MARK C 30d overdue
18519794 GENERATING REPLACEMENT QUERIES FOR ALTERNATE LISTINGS WITH DESIRED ITEM ATTRIBUTES FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 29d overdue
18930465 Virtual Account Use PUTTAIAH, ASHA 22d overdue
18999873 MULTIFACETED REFORMULATIONS FOR NULL AND LOW QUERIES HERSHLEY, MARK E 10d overdue
18384956 Dynamic Generation of User Interface Elements FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 5d overdue
18819759 REMOVING PURCHASES FROM ONLINE CONTAINERS GARG, YOGESH C 7d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3688 11
3689 4
3625 3
3628 3
3665 2
2619 2
3622 2
2166 1
2164 1
3621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19007018 COMPOUND WORD SPLITTING BY VOTING AMONG MULTIPLE GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) WORD SPLITS OBERLY, VAN HONG 2166 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Dec 31, 2024
18999873 MULTIFACETED REFORMULATIONS FOR NULL AND LOW QUERIES HERSHLEY, MARK E 2164 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2024
18934542 OPTIMIZATION-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN SPONSORED SEARCH DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Nov 01, 2024
18930465 Virtual Account Use PUTTAIAH, ASHA 3691 §101 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2024
18924971 Prospective Object Search Techniques Based on Removed Objects CIVAN, ETHAN D 3688 DPOther Final Rejection 75d Pending Oct 23, 2024
18922206 SEARCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATIONS-BASED COMPATIBILITY FEATURES BARGEON, BRITTANY E 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 21, 2024
18894959 Systems And Methods For Multi-Signal Fault Analysis BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M 3665 §101 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 24, 2024
18826819 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF A MARKETPLACE POINVIL, FRANTZY 3693 §101 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18819759 REMOVING PURCHASES FROM ONLINE CONTAINERS GARG, YOGESH C 3688 Other Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18811240 DIGITAL WARDROBE SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B 3688 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2024
18811577 Different Action User-Interface Components In A Comparison View GARG, YOGESH C 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18793685 Inventory Item Prediction and Listing Recommendation WHITE, DYLAN C 3625 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 02, 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
18771568 Image to Structured Workflow Diagram Conversion SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18749596 BRAND-FOCUSED LISTING MANGEMENT ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM CLARE, MARK C 3628 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18749602 BRAND-FOCUSED SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM CLARE, MARK C 3628 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18679129 MULTI-TASK CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR BEHAVIOR SEQUENCE EMBEDDING MODELING JACOB, WILLIAM J 3696 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18668839 INTELLIGENT COMPUTER FUNCTIONALITY AND VISUALIZATION FOR INVENTORY ITEM PLACEMENT MOORE, REVA R 3627 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending May 20, 2024
18656941 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL FITTING ROOMS OR HYBRID STORES BARGEON, BRITTANY E 3688 Other Final Rejection 13d Pending May 07, 2024
18656811 Interactive Augmented Reality Marketplace Assistant MA, MICHELLE HAU 2617 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending May 07, 2024
18651527 Data Storage Space Recovery Via Compaction of Storage Space from Partitions Based on Reference Counts to Identify Stale Data AYASH, MARWAN 2133 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18621579 PRODUCT IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18587308 Virtual Environment Arrangement and Configuration MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18586017 REAL-TIME INVENTORY MAPPING AND NOTIFICATIONS FOR SAVED SEARCHES RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 3688 §102 Final Rejection 12d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18419241 Interactive Forums for Specific Regions of a Digital Image HOANG, PHI 2619 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18397943 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CODE LOOKUP ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM LEVINE, ADAM L 3689 §102 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18397767 QUERY INTENT SPECIFICITY PHAN, TUANKHANH D 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18545257 Visual Search Query Intent Extraction and Search Refinement ALLEN, WILLIAM J 3619 §101 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18545706 LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY PRODUCTS CORRESPONDING TO PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF A VEHICLE STRYKER, NICHOLAS F 3665 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18539091 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH ENGINE IN AN ITEM LISTING SYSTEM PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 13, 2023
18533915 SYSTEM FOR SUGGESTING DESCRIPTIVE FEEDBACK TO A USER ENGAGED IN AN INTERACTION AUSTIN, JAMIE H 3625 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18519794 GENERATING REPLACEMENT QUERIES FOR ALTERNATE LISTINGS WITH DESIRED ITEM ATTRIBUTES FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 3689 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18510233 LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY PRODUCTS FOR COMPLETING A TASK DEFINED BY A SEARCH QUERY SINGH, AMRESH 2159 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18388352 Auto Posting System MESA, JOSE M 2484 §103 Final Rejection 161d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18384956 Dynamic Generation of User Interface Elements FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2023
18383217 IMAGE AND VIDEO INSTANCE ASSOCIATION FOR AN E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS REPSHER III, JOHN T 2143 §103 Final Rejection 183d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18487629 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF SPAM PUBLICATION VAN BRAMER, JOHN W 3622 Other Final Rejection 120d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2023
18374324 FOOTWEAR AUTHENTICATION USING PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IMAGE ANALYSIS KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18474058 Outfit Curation by Generative Artificial Intelligence CAMPBELL, SHANNON S 3628 §103 Final Rejection 103d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18365849 Fingerprinting Physical Items to Mint NFT's WHITAKER, ANDREW B 3629 §103 Final Rejection 150d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18215792 TECHNIQUES FOR STORING UNIQUE ITEM CHARACTERISTICS AS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 3698 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18213489 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER VALUATION AND MERCHANT BIDDING VIG, NARESH 3622 §101 Final Rejection 138d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
17860065 ADAPTIVE SEARCH REFINEMENT GOFMAN, ALEX N 2163 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17846509 FAST 3D MODEL FITTING AND ANTHROPOMETRICS USING SYNTHETIC DATA ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 3688 §101 Final Rejection 140d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2022
17729187 SOCIAL NETWORK INITIATED LISTINGS TRAN, DANIEL DUC 2147 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2022
17699400 BUNDLE CREATION FROM DESCRIPTION CONTENT USING MACHINE LEARNING RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2022

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