Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Foursquare Labs Inc.

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Foursquare Labs Inc. has 12 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating repeated assignments within a relatively compact set of technical classifications. This supports organizing prosecution review around shared technology while retaining examiner-specific analysis.

LONG, MEREDITH A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The cluster provides a focused opportunity to compare responses and claim treatment. Because the remaining matters involve other examiners, counsel should avoid relying on a single examiner strategy and should maintain separate file-level tracking.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

10
Hard (83%)
2
Medium (17%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (42%)
§101 + other5 (42%)
§103 only2 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
83% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LONG, MEREDITH A 2 43.1% +20.8%
POUNCIL, DARNELL A 2 21.4% +30.5%
EYERS, DUSTIN D 1 58.2% +22.7%
UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 1 78.0% +30.0%
SNIDER, SCOTT 1 28.4% +17.9%
HENRY, MATTHEW D 1 29.7% +19.7%
KONG, SZE-HON 1 65.3% +15.1%
CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 1 42.6% +21.7%
SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 1 60.8% +26.4%
PADOT, TIMOTHY 1 39.8% +29.6%

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
18635691 DETERMINING EXPOSURES TO CONTENT PRESENTED BY PHYSICAL OBJECTS LONG, MEREDITH A 89d overdue
18235624 ATTRIBUTING IN-STORE VISITS TO MEDIA CONSUMPTION BASED ON DATA COLLECTED FROM USER DEVICES LONG, MEREDITH A 80d overdue
16841121 TASTE EXTRACTION CURATION AND TAGGING SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 45d overdue
17128679 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 9d
19358011 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT AGENT CROWDSOURCING EYERS, DUSTIN D —
18661410 HIERARCHICAL GRID BASED GEOSPATIAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AND ASSOCIATED OPERATIONS UDDIN, MOHAMMED R —
18502716 Automated Attribution Modeling and Measurement SNIDER, SCOTT —
17935828 MATCHING USER INFORMATION BETWEEN DATA SETS, WHILE PRESERVING DATA PRIVACY HENRY, MATTHEW D —

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18635691 DETERMINING EXPOSURES TO CONTENT PRESENTED BY PHYSICAL OBJECTS LONG, MEREDITH A 89d overdue
18235624 ATTRIBUTING IN-STORE VISITS TO MEDIA CONSUMPTION BASED ON DATA COLLECTED FROM USER DEVICES LONG, MEREDITH A 80d overdue
17328818 PASSIVE VISIT DETECTION KONG, SZE-HON 71d overdue
16841121 TASTE EXTRACTION CURATION AND TAGGING SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 45d overdue
17128679 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 9d
19358011 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT AGENT CROWDSOURCING EYERS, DUSTIN D —
18661410 HIERARCHICAL GRID BASED GEOSPATIAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AND ASSOCIATED OPERATIONS UDDIN, MOHAMMED R —
18502716 Automated Attribution Modeling and Measurement SNIDER, SCOTT —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3622 5
3625 3
2164 1
2161 1
3621 1
3657 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19358011 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT AGENT CROWDSOURCING EYERS, DUSTIN D 2164 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 14, 2025
18661410 HIERARCHICAL GRID BASED GEOSPATIAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AND ASSOCIATED OPERATIONS UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 2161 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 10, 2024
18635691 DETERMINING EXPOSURES TO CONTENT PRESENTED BY PHYSICAL OBJECTS LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101§103DP Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18502716 Automated Attribution Modeling and Measurement SNIDER, SCOTT 3621 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2023
18235624 ATTRIBUTING IN-STORE VISITS TO MEDIA CONSUMPTION BASED ON DATA COLLECTED FROM USER DEVICES LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
17935828 MATCHING USER INFORMATION BETWEEN DATA SETS, WHILE PRESERVING DATA PRIVACY HENRY, MATTHEW D 3625 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 27, 2022
17328818 PASSIVE VISIT DETECTION KONG, SZE-HON 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending May 24, 2021
17128679 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 21, 2020
16841121 TASTE EXTRACTION CURATION AND TAGGING SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2020
16357749 SPECULATIVE CHECK-INS AND IMPORTANCE REWEIGHTING TO IMPROVE VENUE COVERAGE PADOT, TIMOTHY 3625 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 19, 2019
13974708 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL MESSAGING IN A LOCATION-BASED NETWORK POUNCIL, DARNELL A 3622 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 23, 2013
13949465 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING ITEMS WITHIN A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE POUNCIL, DARNELL A 3622 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 24, 2013

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Foursquare Labs Inc. have?

Foursquare Labs Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Foursquare Labs Inc. applications?

Meredith A Long has the most, with 2 of Foursquare Labs Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Foursquare Labs Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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