Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

26 pending office actions • 9 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

26
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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.

24
Hard (92%)
2
Medium (8%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only15 (58%)
§101 + other9 (35%)
§103 only2 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
8% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
24
Mechanical / Eng
92% 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.

260 h
Manual time on pending OAs
52 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
91 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEINER, ARIELLE E 3 43.9% +53.1%
FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 2 25.2% +24.7%
BAGGOT, BREFFNI 2 35.1% +25.2%
BARGEON, BRITTANY E 2 45.0% +33.7%
LUDWIG, PETER L 2 35.2% +23.2%
SPRATT, BEAU D 1 78.9% +24.2%
JARRETT, SCOTT L 1 52.0% +47.9%
KANG, TIMOTHY J 1 45.6% +25.2%
GARG, YOGESH C 1 61.6% +33.2%
ROSEN, NICHOLAS D 1 70.2% +22.9%

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
18113868 DYNAMIC REPLENISHMENT OF ITEMS STAGED TO A RAPID FULFILLMENT AREA IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M 52d overdue
18079317 SELECTING PICKERS FOR SERVICE REQUESTS BASED ON OUTPUT OF COMPUTER MODEL TRAINED TO PREDICT ACCEPTANCES LUDWIG, PETER L 38d overdue
18140210 Feature Recommendations for Machine Learning Models Using Trained Feature Prediction Model WU, NICHOLAS S 25d overdue
17955407 MACHINE LEARNING BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION OPTIMIZATION LUDWIG, PETER L 23d overdue
18213764 SUGGESTING FULFILLMENT SOURCES FOR A USER AT A NEW LOCATION BASED ON USER'S HISTORICAL ACTIVITY KANG, TIMOTHY J 9d overdue
17478411 RANKING SUGGESTIONS FOR COMPLETING A SEARCH QUERY BASED ON LIKELIHOOD OF A USER INCLUDING ITEMS CORRESPONDING TO THE SUGGESTIONS IN AN ORDER WEINER, ARIELLE E 4d overdue
18129464 PREDICTIVE PICKING OF ITEMS FOR PREPOPULATING A SHOPPING CART FOR A SHOPPER WEINER, ARIELLE E 15d
18326900 Predicting Replacement Items using a Machine-Learning Replacement Model GARG, YOGESH C 16d

Interview Candidates (16)

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
18079317 SELECTING PICKERS FOR SERVICE REQUESTS BASED ON OUTPUT OF COMPUTER MODEL TRAINED TO PREDICT ACCEPTANCES LUDWIG, PETER L 38d overdue
17955407 MACHINE LEARNING BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION OPTIMIZATION LUDWIG, PETER L 23d overdue
18213764 SUGGESTING FULFILLMENT SOURCES FOR A USER AT A NEW LOCATION BASED ON USER'S HISTORICAL ACTIVITY KANG, TIMOTHY J 9d overdue
17478411 RANKING SUGGESTIONS FOR COMPLETING A SEARCH QUERY BASED ON LIKELIHOOD OF A USER INCLUDING ITEMS CORRESPONDING TO THE SUGGESTIONS IN AN ORDER WEINER, ARIELLE E 4d overdue
18129464 PREDICTIVE PICKING OF ITEMS FOR PREPOPULATING A SHOPPING CART FOR A SHOPPER WEINER, ARIELLE E 15d
18326900 Predicting Replacement Items using a Machine-Learning Replacement Model GARG, YOGESH C 16d
18113874 DETERMINING ITEM DESIRABILITY TO USERS BASED ON ITEM ATTRIBUTES AND ITEM EXPIRATION DATE WEINER, ARIELLE E 22d
18214316 TRAINED MODELS FOR PREDICTING TIMES FOR COMPLETION OF TASKS FOR AN ORDER PLACED WITH AN ONLINE SYSTEM AND DETERMINING REMEDIAL ACTIONS JARRETT, SCOTT L 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3689 7
3627 7
3688 4
3621 2
3624 2
2143 1
3625 1
2148 1
3600 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18217356 Machine Learning Model for Predicting Likelihoods of Events on Multiple Different Surfaces of an Online System SPRATT, BEAU D 2143 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 30, 2023
18214150 MACHINE-LEARNED MODEL FOR PERSONALIZING SERVICE OPTIONS IN AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM USING LOCATION FEATURES FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Jun 26, 2023
18214316 TRAINED MODELS FOR PREDICTING TIMES FOR COMPLETION OF TASKS FOR AN ORDER PLACED WITH AN ONLINE SYSTEM AND DETERMINING REMEDIAL ACTIONS JARRETT, SCOTT L 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 26, 2023
18213764 SUGGESTING FULFILLMENT SOURCES FOR A USER AT A NEW LOCATION BASED ON USER'S HISTORICAL ACTIVITY KANG, TIMOTHY J 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18213761 OFFLINE SIMULATION TO TEST AN EFFECT OF A CONFIGURABLE PARAMETER USED BY A CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM BAGGOT, BREFFNI 3621 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2023
18326900 Predicting Replacement Items using a Machine-Learning Replacement Model GARG, YOGESH C 3688 §101§102 Final Rejection 16d Pending May 31, 2023
18199938 User Interface for Obtaining Picker Intent Signals for Training Machine Learning Models ROSEN, NICHOLAS D 3689 §101 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2023
18141394 WAREHOUSE ITEM ASSORTMENT COMPARISON AND DISPLAY CUSTOMIZATION MOORE, REVA R 3627 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2023
18140210 Feature Recommendations for Machine Learning Models Using Trained Feature Prediction Model WU, NICHOLAS S 2148 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18138002 Selecting an Attribute of an Item for Display in an Interface Based on Information Gain Determined for the Attribute by a Trained Machine-Learned Model BARGEON, BRITTANY E 3688 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 21, 2023
18129464 PREDICTIVE PICKING OF ITEMS FOR PREPOPULATING A SHOPPING CART FOR A SHOPPER WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18129447 AUTOMATIC KEYWORD GROUPING FOR CAMPAIGN BID CUSTOMIZATION ASHRAF, WASEEM 3600 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 31, 2023
18113874 DETERMINING ITEM DESIRABILITY TO USERS BASED ON ITEM ATTRIBUTES AND ITEM EXPIRATION DATE WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101§103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18113868 DYNAMIC REPLENISHMENT OF ITEMS STAGED TO A RAPID FULFILLMENT AREA IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M 3627 §101 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18084938 OFFLINE SIMULATION OF MULTIPLE EXPERIMENTS WITH VARIANT ADJUSTMENTS BAGGOT, BREFFNI 3621 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2022
18079317 SELECTING PICKERS FOR SERVICE REQUESTS BASED ON OUTPUT OF COMPUTER MODEL TRAINED TO PREDICT ACCEPTANCES LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §101§103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2022
18079544 GENERATING AN ORDER INCLUDING MULTIPLE ITEMS FROM A USER INTENT DETERMINED FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA RECEIVED VIA A CHAT INTERFACE LADONI, AHOORA 3688 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2022
17977759 GENERATING A SCHEDULE FOR A PICKER OF AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM BASED ON AN EARNINGS GOAL AND AVAILABILITY INFORMATION GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 3624 §101 Final Rejection Pending Oct 31, 2022
17955407 MACHINE LEARNING BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION OPTIMIZATION LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §101§103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17935091 GENERATING ORDER BATCHES FOR AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE 3627 §101 Final Rejection 26d Pending Sep 24, 2022
17900533 SIMULATING AN APPLICATION OF A TREATMENT ON A DEMAND SIDE AND A SUPPLY SIDE ASSOCIATED WITH AN ONLINE SYSTEM KOESTER, MICHAEL RICHARD 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2022
17900744 ITEM AVAILABILITY MODEL PRODUCING ITEM VERIFICATION NOTIFICATIONS FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 3689 §101§102§103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 31, 2022
17855793 DETERMINING EFFICIENT ROUTES IN A COMPLEX SPACE USING HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION AND SPARSE DATA WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 3627 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 01, 2022
17846887 MACHINE LEARNED MODEL FOR MANAGING FOUNDATIONAL ITEMS IN CONCIERGE SYSTEM BARGEON, BRITTANY E 3688 §101 Final Rejection Pending Jun 22, 2022
17524491 DIRECTLY IDENTIFYING ITEMS FROM AN ITEM CATALOG SATISFYING A RECEIVED QUERY USING A MODEL DETERMINING MEASURES OF SIMILARITY BETWEEN ITEMS IN THE ITEM CATALOG AND THE QUERY GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 3627 §101 Final Rejection Pending Nov 11, 2021
17478411 RANKING SUGGESTIONS FOR COMPLETING A SEARCH QUERY BASED ON LIKELIHOOD OF A USER INCLUDING ITEMS CORRESPONDING TO THE SUGGESTIONS IN AN ORDER WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 17, 2021

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