Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Expedia Inc. currently has 7 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 7 actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending application is being reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is also distributed across 5 distinct art units, showing a high degree of technical variety for a relatively small number of active cases.
MACASIANO, MARILYN G is identified as the busiest examiner, but she is currently managing only 1 pending office action. Because there are 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, every examiner involved holds an equal portion of the company's active prosecution workload. This complete lack of examiner concentration means that the company must navigate 7 different individual examination styles simultaneously without any overlap.
The 5 distinct art units involved for these 7 pending office actions indicate that the company's innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized divisions. Practitioners cannot rely on a single examiner's precedent, as MACASIANO, MARILYN G and the other examiners each bring their own perspectives to the actions. This spread across 5 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to patent prosecution within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 only | 3 (38%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | 1 | 68.7% | +22.9% |
| MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 1 | 57.7% | +17.1% |
| GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 1 | 73.9% | +31.5% |
| WEINER, ARIELLE E | 1 | 43.4% | +53.6% |
| KANG, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 45.5% | +27.0% |
| VOGT, JACOB BUI | 1 | 42.9% | +76.0% |
| KIM, PATRICK | 1 | 26.3% | +33.2% |
| MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 1 | 48.5% | +50.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737796 | CENTROID-BASED MACHINE LEARNING ITEM RANKING WITHIN AN EMBEDDING SPACE | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 33d |
| 17972368 | TESSELATION-BASED PROXIMITY SYSTEM | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 41d |
| 19423956 | AUTOMATED ACTIONABLE INSIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | — |
| 19201716 | UNIVERSAL STORAGE HANDLER | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | — |
| 19193667 | AI-DRIVEN TRAVEL COMPARISON SYSTEM | WEINER, ARIELLE E | — |
| 18221730 | GENERATION AND APPLICATION OF EMBEDDINGS FOR LODGING ITEMS | KIM, PATRICK | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18534384 | TRAVEL-SPECIFIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 8d overdue |
| 18737796 | CENTROID-BASED MACHINE LEARNING ITEM RANKING WITHIN AN EMBEDDING SPACE | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 33d |
| 17972368 | TESSELATION-BASED PROXIMITY SYSTEM | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 41d |
| 19427417 | BOOKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | — |
| 19423956 | AUTOMATED ACTIONABLE INSIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | — |
| 19201716 | UNIVERSAL STORAGE HANDLER | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | — |
| 19193667 | AI-DRIVEN TRAVEL COMPARISON SYSTEM | WEINER, ARIELLE E | — |
| 18221730 | GENERATION AND APPLICATION OF EMBEDDINGS FOR LODGING ITEMS | KIM, PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3689 | 2 |
| 3628 | 2 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2132 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19427417 | BOOKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE | 3699 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19423956 | AUTOMATED ACTIONABLE INSIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2025 |
| 19201716 | UNIVERSAL STORAGE HANDLER | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2132 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19193667 | AI-DRIVEN TRAVEL COMPARISON SYSTEM | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 3689 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 18737796 | CENTROID-BASED MACHINE LEARNING ITEM RANKING WITHIN AN EMBEDDING SPACE | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18534384 | TRAVEL-SPECIFIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18221730 | GENERATION AND APPLICATION OF EMBEDDINGS FOR LODGING ITEMS | KIM, PATRICK | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 17972368 | TESSELATION-BASED PROXIMITY SYSTEM | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialExpedia Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Courtney Patrice Jones has the most, with 1 of Expedia Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
