Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

HERE Global B.V.

Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

35 pending office actions • 24 art units • 34 examiners • 0 of 35 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 81 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

HERE Global B.V. has 36 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. These matters involve 35 distinct examiners and 25 distinct art units, demonstrating a widely distributed prosecution docket with many individual examination relationships.

COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Because examiner concentration is limited, counsel should prioritize centralized status tracking and technical consistency, while adapting arguments to each art unit and examiner.

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

Portfolio Summary

35
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
18
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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.

24
Hard (69%)
10
Medium (29%)
1
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (14%)
§101 + other13 (37%)
§103 only10 (29%)
Double-patenting only1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
14% of docket
8
Communications
23% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
22
Mechanical / Eng
63% 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.

350 h
Manual time on pending OAs
70 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
122 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN 2 67.0% +17.2%
GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES 1 47.6% +53.6%
YANG, HAN 1 92.1% +11.7%
MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 1 60.0% +12.3%
AN, IG TAI 1 57.4% +24.7%
TESTARDI, DAVID A 1 74.2% +22.1%
DEMETER, HILINA K 1 72.1% +18.8%
VARNDELL, ROSS E 1 84.7% +13.2%
SU, STEPHANIE T 1 67.3% +28.7%
ESTEVEZ, DAIRON 1 69.6% -11.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19088472 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED PURPOSE LIMITATION AND COMPATIBILITY VERIFICATION ON A DATA PLATFORM YANG, HAN —

Hard Cases (24)

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
16747963 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY DETECTING DANGEROUS MERGING SITUATIONS ABD EL LATIF, HOSSAM M 72d overdue
18790939 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CRITICAL LINK SEGMENTS IN A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA LINHARDT, LAURA E 9d overdue
18090082 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF LANE DATA SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA 9d overdue
17132847 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREDICTING A SPLIT LANE TRAFFIC PATTERN STORK, KYLE R 14d
18077021 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SIGNED ANGLE METRIC FOR MAPMATCHING BASED ON PROBE DATA TROOST, AARON L 28d
19297769 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MOCK MAP DATA FOR MAP DESIGN VALIDATION AND DOCUMENTATION GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES —
18990741 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAFFIC DATA BASED ON TRAJECTORY DATA MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER —
18989438 PROVIDING A CONTEXTUAL ARRIVAL EXPERIENCE AN, IG TAI —

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
19297769 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MOCK MAP DATA FOR MAP DESIGN VALIDATION AND DOCUMENTATION GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES —
19088472 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED PURPOSE LIMITATION AND COMPATIBILITY VERIFICATION ON A DATA PLATFORM YANG, HAN —
18990741 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAFFIC DATA BASED ON TRAJECTORY DATA MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER —
18989438 PROVIDING A CONTEXTUAL ARRIVAL EXPERIENCE AN, IG TAI —
18989556 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING ROUTES FOR VEHICLES TESTARDI, DAVID A —
18986279 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING USING SEGMENTATION DEMETER, HILINA K —
18874989 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING POWER TO CONSUMERS IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER LINE NETWORK VARNDELL, ROSS E —
18963801 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM OF ASSESSING IMPACT OF TRAFFIC SPILLOVER COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3662 5
3664 3
3666 3
3667 2
3665 2
3663 2
2493 1
3658 1
2617 1
2674 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19297769 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MOCK MAP DATA FOR MAP DESIGN VALIDATION AND DOCUMENTATION GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES 3667 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 12, 2025
19088472 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED PURPOSE LIMITATION AND COMPATIBILITY VERIFICATION ON A DATA PLATFORM YANG, HAN 2493 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 24, 2025
18990741 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAFFIC DATA BASED ON TRAJECTORY DATA MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 3658 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18989438 PROVIDING A CONTEXTUAL ARRIVAL EXPERIENCE AN, IG TAI 3662 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18989556 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING ROUTES FOR VEHICLES TESTARDI, DAVID A 3664 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18986279 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING USING SEGMENTATION DEMETER, HILINA K 2617 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 18, 2024
18874989 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING POWER TO CONSUMERS IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER LINE NETWORK VARNDELL, ROSS E 2674 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18963801 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM OF ASSESSING IMPACT OF TRAFFIC SPILLOVER COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN 3662 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 29, 2024
18963796 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM OF MATCHING TO A DIRECTED GRAPH REPRESENTATION OF LANES OF A ROAD TOPOLOGY NETWORK IN A DIGITAL MAP SU, STEPHANIE T 3662 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 29, 2024
18931896 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VEHICULAR OBSERVATION DATA ESTEVEZ, DAIRON 3656 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2024
18929639 DETERMINATION OF DEVIATION IN VEHICLE DRIVING BEHAVIOR AND GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS THEREOF CHOI, JISUN 3666 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 29, 2024
18907602 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING LANE-LEVEL DIRECTION-OF-TRAVEL DETECTION FROM OVERHEAD IMAGERY PATEL, MANGLESH M 3665 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18824955 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A WIRELESS DATA CONNECTION TO A VEHICLE JAIN, SWATI 2649 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 05, 2024
18790939 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CRITICAL LINK SEGMENTS IN A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA LINHARDT, LAURA E 3663 §101§103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18790964 CHARACTERIZING CONGESTION QUEUE STATUS ON ROAD LINKS KHATIB, RAMI 3669 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2024
18782236 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING AVAILABILITY DATA OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POINTS RHEE, ROY B 3664 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 24, 2024
18735210 LOCATION BASED PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING JUNG, HENRY H 3695 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 06, 2024
18666447 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COVERAGE OF A VEHICLE TECHNOLOGICAL FIELD EUSTAQUIO, CAL J 2686 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2024
18624150 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POINT DETECTION SYSTEM PARK, KYLE S 3666 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 02, 2024
18404057 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT SENSITIVE NAVIGATION ROUTING MIRZA, ADNAN M 3667 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 04, 2024
18392970 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC DATA PROCESSING COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN 3662 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 21, 2023
18523946 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN IMPACT OF HIGH-BEAM LIGHTS ON BEHAVIORS OF USERS WALSH, EMMETT K 3626 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18523948 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING DATABSE OF NETWORK ACCESS POINT LOCATION GHULAMALI, QUTBUDDIN 2632 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18371398 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC DETERMINATION OF SAFETY DISTANCE BETWEEN VEHICLES ANDA, JENNIFER MARIE 3662 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 21, 2023
18459752 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PATH ESTIMATION USING PREDICTIVE MODEL STRYKER, NICHOLAS F 3665 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 01, 2023
18090082 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF LANE DATA SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA 2164 §101 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18088315 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING BUILDING DATA HOANG, KEN 2168 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 23, 2022
18067430 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SELECTIVE IMAGE COMPRESSION JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE 2666 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 16, 2022
18077787 MESSAGE ENCODING FOR POSITIONING KELLEY, STEVEN SHAUN 2646 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 08, 2022
18077021 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SIGNED ANGLE METRIC FOR MAPMATCHING BASED ON PROBE DATA TROOST, AARON L 3666 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 07, 2022
18053075 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA ATTRIBUTION LEGGETT, ANDREA C. 2171 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17977679 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING JOURNEYS FROM VEHICLE LOCATION TRACE DATA MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S 3663 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 31, 2022
17645096 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING LANE GEOMETRY IN MAP DATA KUDO, KEN 2671 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 20, 2021
17132847 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREDICTING A SPLIT LANE TRAFFIC PATTERN STORK, KYLE R 2128 §101§103DP Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 23, 2020
16747963 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY DETECTING DANGEROUS MERGING SITUATIONS ABD EL LATIF, HOSSAM M 3664 §101 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2020

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does HERE Global B.V. have?

HERE Global B.V. has 35 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 24 art units and 34 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most HERE Global B.V. applications?

Chase Littlejohn Cooley has the most, with 2 of HERE Global B.V.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are HERE Global B.V.'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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