Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mapbox Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. Christine Nguyen Huynh is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution represents a completely decentralized portfolio where every pending matter is in a different art unit and under a different examiner. The company must navigate three separate sets of technical standards and examiner preferences simultaneously.
The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are categorized into several different technical groups. Because the 3 distinct examiners are all different individuals, the company cannot rely on building a rapport with a small group of personnel to streamline its prosecution. Christine Nguyen Huynh handles a single matter, which is the same workload as every other examiner in this portfolio. Practitioners must be prepared for many different sets of examiner expectations and procedural habits. The 3 pending office actions require a broad management strategy to address the various requirements of the assigned art units and examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN | 1 | 66.9% | +24.8% |
| VU, KHOA | 1 | 69.6% | +13.7% |
| HOLMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 60.2% | +20.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18765984 | AUGMENTING STANDARD DEFINITION MAP DATA WITH SEPARATE HIGH-DEFINITION MAP DATA LAYERS | HOLMAN, JOHN D | 54d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18765984 | AUGMENTING STANDARD DEFINITION MAP DATA WITH SEPARATE HIGH-DEFINITION MAP DATA LAYERS | HOLMAN, JOHN D | 54d |
| 19278322 | Viewport System for Dynamically Framing of a Map Based on Updating Data | HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN | — |
| 18954380 | EFFICIENT GRAPHICAL ELEMENT TOP SURFACE RENDERING IN DIGITAL MAP | VU, KHOA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19278322 | Viewport System for Dynamically Framing of a Map Based on Updating Data | HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 18954380 | EFFICIENT GRAPHICAL ELEMENT TOP SURFACE RENDERING IN DIGITAL MAP | VU, KHOA | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18765984 | AUGMENTING STANDARD DEFINITION MAP DATA WITH SEPARATE HIGH-DEFINITION MAP DATA LAYERS | HOLMAN, JOHN D | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMapbox Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Christine Nguyen Huynh has the most, with 1 of Mapbox Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
