Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Foursquare Labs Inc.

10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 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.

5
Hard (50%)
1
Medium (10%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (50%)
§103 only1 (10%)
No statute on record4 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
70% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LONG, MEREDITH A 3 43.1% +22.0%
NGUYEN, ROBERT T 1 83.0% +10.1%
HONG, DUNG 1 83.6% +14.3%
CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 1 74.9% +32.6%
KONG, SZE-HON 1 65.1% +14.3%
JAMI, HARES 1 73.1% +29.8%
CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 1 43.2% +21.0%
SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 1 61.9% +26.7%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
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
17145888 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A SUMMARY DATA OF A SET OF DATA JAMI, HARES 44d overdue
17128679 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 9d
18132161 DETERMINING TARGETING INFORMATION BASED ON A PREDICTIVE TARGETING MODEL LONG, MEREDITH A 63d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18368894 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING MOVEMENTS OF TARGET ENTITIES HONG, DUNG 140d overdue
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
18828825 VENUE DETECTION NGUYEN, ROBERT T 52d overdue
16841121 TASTE EXTRACTION CURATION AND TAGGING SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 45d overdue
17145888 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A SUMMARY DATA OF A SET OF DATA JAMI, HARES 44d overdue
18045431 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTITIES OF INTEREST CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 35d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3622 4
3619 1
2643 1
2154 1
3657 1
2164 1
3625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18828825 VENUE DETECTION NGUYEN, ROBERT T 3619 Other Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2024
18635691 DETERMINING EXPOSURES TO CONTENT PRESENTED BY PHYSICAL OBJECTS LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 Other Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18368894 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING MOVEMENTS OF TARGET ENTITIES HONG, DUNG 2643 Other Final Rejection 140d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18235624 ATTRIBUTING IN-STORE VISITS TO MEDIA CONSUMPTION BASED ON DATA COLLECTED FROM USER DEVICES LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18132161 DETERMINING TARGETING INFORMATION BASED ON A PREDICTIVE TARGETING MODEL LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Apr 07, 2023
18045431 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTITIES OF INTEREST CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 2154 Other Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2022
17328818 PASSIVE VISIT DETECTION KONG, SZE-HON 3657 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending May 24, 2021
17145888 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A SUMMARY DATA OF A SET OF DATA JAMI, HARES 2164 §101 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2021
17128679 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 3622 §101 Final Rejection 9d Pending Dec 21, 2020
16841121 TASTE EXTRACTION CURATION AND TAGGING SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §101 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2020

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