Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mapbox Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning that every active case is being reviewed by a different person. This 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners requires a unique prosecution approach for each of the 3 pending matters. HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
The 3 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's communications technology is being reviewed by 2 different specialized groups at the USPTO. With 3 distinct examiners and 2 art units, the company faces a variety of perspectives despite the small number of active cases. Because HUYNH, CHRISTINE NGUYEN and the other examiners each handle only 1 pending action, the company's success is distributed across 3 independent negotiations. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the 2 art units while addressing the individual feedback from each of the 3 examiners to advance these matters.
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 | 68.1% | +25.2% |
| VU, KHOA | 1 | 69.3% | +13.9% |
| HOLMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 58.7% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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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