Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Paypal Inc.

80 pending office actions • 49 art units • 75 examiners • 0 of 80 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 172 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

80
Total Pending OAs
50
Non-Final OAs
27
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 79 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

41
Overdue
2
Due this week
21
Due this month
11
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 79 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (41)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (21)Due ≤ 60 days (11)Due later (4)

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.

22
Hard (28%)
56
Medium (70%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only22 (28%)
§103 only54 (68%)
§102 only2 (2%)
No statute on record2 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
36
Information Tech
45% of docket
3
Communications
4% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
41
Mechanical / Eng
51% 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.

800 h
Manual time on pending OAs
160 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
280 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEVINE, ADAM L 2 35.7% +40.5%
HYDER, MD SAKIB 2 0.0% +0.0%
AIRAPETIAN, MILA 2 72.9% +14.7%
BORLINGHAUS, JASON M 2 47.4% +20.6%
SHALU, ZELALEM W 2 29.1% +20.3%
OBERLY, VAN HONG 1 75.1% +15.6%
GARCIA MIZE, KARLYANNIE MARIE 1 40.5% +37.4%
SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 1 76.9% +13.5%
KWONG, CHO YIU 1 32.0% +6.1%
VO, ETHAN VIET 1 73.4% +32.4%

Hard Cases (26)

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
17710934 PARTNER FEE RECOMMENDATION SERVICE LEE, PO HAN 182d overdue
18301574 MULTI-MODAL TRANSACTION CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR 73d overdue
17703107 COMPUTER SYSTEM SECURITY VIA DEVICE NETWORK PARAMETERS OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA 73d overdue
18581877 COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING BASED ON SELECTED CRITERIA HYDER, MD SAKIB 52d overdue
16687554 INTELLIGENT POPULATION OF INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR CONVERTING TRANSACTIONS PINSKY, DOUGLAS W 46d overdue
17489398 AUTOMATIC PAYMENT DETERMINATION HILMANTEL, ADAM J 42d overdue
18919251 OPTIMIZED GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS OF FUNDING MECHANISMS AIRAPETIAN, MILA 31d overdue
18231525 Techniques for Data Log Processing, Retention, and Storage EHNE, CHARLES 30d overdue

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18979416 Latency and Computational Performance On A Blockchain VO, ETHAN VIET 43d overdue
18148979 PROVIDING APPLICATION NOTIFICATION FOR COMPUTING APPLICATION LIMITATIONS BORLINGHAUS, JASON M 42d overdue
19012401 MULTI-TIERED CACHE SYSTEM SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 38d overdue
18919251 OPTIMIZED GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS OF FUNDING MECHANISMS AIRAPETIAN, MILA 31d overdue
18826685 SHOPPING ASSISTANT WITH ACCOUNT BALANCE LIMIT DISPLAY LEVINE, ADAM L 25d overdue
17721993 OPTIMIZING TRAINING DATA GENERATION FROM REAL-TIME PREDICTION SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT MODEL TRAINING SHALU, ZELALEM W 14d
17673377 TIERED INPUT STRUCTURES FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS SHALU, ZELALEM W 14d
19193406 EDGE COMPUTING STORAGE NODES BASED ON LOCATION AND ACTIVITIES FOR USER DATA SEPARATE FROM CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS OBERLY, VAN HONG 16d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3698 6
3692 5
3688 4
3696 4
2113 3
2145 3
3693 2
3689 2
2436 2
3627 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19193406 EDGE COMPUTING STORAGE NODES BASED ON LOCATION AND ACTIVITIES FOR USER DATA SEPARATE FROM CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS OBERLY, VAN HONG 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Apr 29, 2025
19175424 SOCIAL NETWORK PAYMENT SYSTEM GARCIA MIZE, KARLYANNIE MARIE 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Apr 10, 2025
19012401 MULTI-TIERED CACHE SYSTEM SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jan 07, 2025
19011238 SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING A ROUTER FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §101 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2025
18979416 Latency and Computational Performance On A Blockchain VO, ETHAN VIET 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2024
18948368 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT INTEGRATED PRODUCT PURCHASING LEVINE, ADAM L 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Nov 14, 2024
18937268 ONE LINE IN-CONTEXT USER INTERFACE HYDER, MD SAKIB 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18930551 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS WONG, ERIC TAK WAI 3693 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2024
18919251 OPTIMIZED GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS OF FUNDING MECHANISMS AIRAPETIAN, MILA 3688 §101 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2024
18898252 SOCIAL SHARING SYSTEM TRAN, JIMMY H 2451 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18892250 AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION OF DECENTRAILIZED PROTOCOLS LEE, MICHAEL M 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18826685 SHOPPING ASSISTANT WITH ACCOUNT BALANCE LIMIT DISPLAY LEVINE, ADAM L 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18813359 Virtual Currency Exchange Platform LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18808845 GLOBAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2024
18802187 SELECTIVE PRESENTATION OF DATA ITEMS MACASIANO, MARILYN G 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18781771 SELECTING DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS TO DISPLAY AIRAPETIAN, MILA 3688 §101 Final Rejection 76d Pending Jul 23, 2024
18759471 EVALUATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS USABLE FOR A CONVERSATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM HOLZMACHER, DERICK J 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18738631 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ENCODING OF GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK EDGE TEXTUAL INFORMATION AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 10, 2024
18733305 ANONYMITY-ENABLED TRANSMISSION OF NOTIFICATIONS WITHOUT EXCHANGING CONTACT IDENTIFIERS JAMES, GREGORY MARK 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18732458 RAPID ONLINE PAYMENT SYSTEM CHANG, EDWARD 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18677682 MULTIDIMENSIONAL ERROR CAUSAL ANALYSIS FOR ERROR INTERCORRELATIONS THAT IMPACT APPLICATION AVAILABILITY GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD 2113 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 29, 2024
18654830 CRYPTOCURRENCY TRANSACTION BACKUP SYSTEM WARDEN, MICHAEL J 3694 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 03, 2024
18634500 RATE LIMITING AT THE EDGE ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN 2445 §102 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18596407 Dynamic Sharding Method for Distributed Data Stores WALDRON, SCOTT A 2152 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18586411 ERROR RESOLUTION FOR INTERACTIONS WITH USER PAGES WILSON, YOLANDA L 2113 §101 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18581877 COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING BASED ON SELECTED CRITERIA HYDER, MD SAKIB 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2024
18435574 COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORM USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR INTEGRATING DATA SHARING PLATFORMS ELCHANTI, TAREK 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18293755 FRAUDULENT TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z 3694 §101 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18420752 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND MEDIUM FOR ONE-PAGE CHECKOUT RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2024
18417618 BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY (BLE) PRE-CHECK IN OYEBISI, OJO O 3695 Other Final Rejection 27d Pending Jan 19, 2024
18403087 ON-CHAIN LOYALTY PROGRAM MANAGEMENT VIG, NARESH 3622 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2024
18394941 REMOTE TERMINAL DEVICE UPDATES LUU, CUONG V 2192 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 22, 2023
18390346 MISSING CONTROL IDENTIFICATION ADAMS, CHARLES D 2152 §101 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18541788 SPLIT-AND-MERGE FRAMEWORK FOR AUDIO CONTENT PROCESSING SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18539115 TETHERING FACE IDENTIFIERS TO DIGITAL ACCOUNTS FOR SECURE AUTHENTICATIONS DURING COMPUTING ACTIVITIES RAZA, ZEHRA 3697 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18537705 AUTOMATED CHATBOTS THAT DETECT PRIVACY DATA SHARING AND LEAKAGE BY OTHER AUTOMATED CHATBOT SYSTEMS NANO, SARGON N 2443 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18535653 DECENTRALIZED INCENTIVE SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING TRANSACTIONS TO BLOCKCHAIN MINERS ALI, JAHED 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18522202 COMMUNICATION OF ORDERS AND PAYMENTS IN A DRIVE THROUGH USING WIRELESS BEACONS WILDER, ANDREW H 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18521212 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EARLY FRAUD DETECTION IN DEFERRED TRANSACTION SERVICES DINH, KHANH Q 2458 §102 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18517290 VIDEO VERIFICATION SYSTEMS WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WINDER, PATRICE L 2453 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 22, 2023
18514275 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING STRATEGY USING UNIFIED POOL CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18513048 DATA SECURITY SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO RESTRICTED DATA AND DATA PROCESSING FLOWS TO PREVENT COMPROMISING DATA AND FLOW ABUSES NGUY, CHI D 2435 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18501857 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-LEVEL FINGERPRINTING PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 2409 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18470779 PROFILE MATCHING FILTERS HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 2168 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18237570 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR USER SPECIFIC DATA DISTRIBUTION OF CROWD-SOURCED DATA ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 3688 §101 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18452404 PLATFORM-AGNOSTIC UNIVERSAL TRANSACTION PROFILES ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18450035 ELECTRONIC PROTECTION OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION VIA DATA EMBEDDING AND NOISE ADDITION DAVIS, ZACHARY A 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 15, 2023
18231525 Techniques for Data Log Processing, Retention, and Storage EHNE, CHARLES 2113 §101 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2023
18363668 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING SUBSTRUCTURE IN GRAPH DATA BLACK, LINH 2163 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 01, 2023
18361200 INTERPRETIVE AND QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF DOCUMENT IMAGE QUALITY FOR DOCUMENT IMAGE SUBMISSIONS ISLAM, MEHRAZUL NMN 2662 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18348166 OPTIMIZING ALLOCATION OF GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNIT (GPU) RESOURCES IN A PRODUCTION WORKSPACE HOANG, PHUONG N 2194 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 06, 2023
18217038 AUTOMATIC SYNCHRONIZATION OF A DEVICE FOR TRANSACTION PROCESSING BASED ON GEO-FENCED LOCATIONS BORLINGHAUS, JASON M 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18216354 RISK CALCULATION USING ENTITY GRAPH WITH EDGE WEIGHTS BY CARDINALITY PUTTAIAH, ASHA 3691 Non-Final OA 169d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18328514 SEMI-SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FRAMEWORK FOR UNLABELED LEARNING SINGH, AMRESH 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18326396 REDUCING LATENCY THROUGH PROPENSITY MODELS THAT PREDICT DATA CALLS RUTTEN, JAMES D 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending May 31, 2023
18320116 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS BASED ON INPUT VALUE CHARACTERISTICS HOANG, AMY P 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 18, 2023
18315741 Automatic Feature Engineering for Machine Learning Pipelines SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending May 11, 2023
18306121 COMMUNICATION DEVICE INTERFACE FOR MERCHANT CHECK-IN AND SHOPPING NOTIFICATIONS BEKERMAN, MICHAEL 3621 §101 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
18303511 ESTABLISHING DIGITAL ACCOUNT USAGE IN DIGITAL WALLETS DURING CROSS-PLATFORM DATA PROCESSING ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2023
18301574 MULTI-MODAL TRANSACTION CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR 3696 §101 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2023
18182191 OPTIMIZATION FOR CASCADE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS ANDREI, RADU 3698 §101 Final Rejection 35d Pending Mar 10, 2023
18148979 PROVIDING APPLICATION NOTIFICATION FOR COMPUTING APPLICATION LIMITATIONS BORLINGHAUS, JASON M 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
18090284 POWER USAGE AND RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING BOLEN, NICHOLAS D 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
17977783 AGGREGATED MESSAGING IN DYNAMIC BATCHES FOR NETWORK OPTIMIZATION CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA 3692 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Oct 31, 2022
17721993 OPTIMIZING TRAINING DATA GENERATION FROM REAL-TIME PREDICTION SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT MODEL TRAINING SHALU, ZELALEM W 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 15, 2022
17710934 PARTNER FEE RECOMMENDATION SERVICE LEE, PO HAN 3623 §101 Final Rejection 182d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17703107 COMPUTER SYSTEM SECURITY VIA DEVICE NETWORK PARAMETERS OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA 3696 §101 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2022
17673377 TIERED INPUT STRUCTURES FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS SHALU, ZELALEM W 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 16, 2022
17651164 Decentralized Identity on Blockchain for a Multi-sided Network CASTILHO, EDUARDO D 3698 §103 Final Rejection 124d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2022
17557693 FEATURE DEPRECATION ARCHITECTURES FOR DECISION-TREE BASED METHODS NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2021
17547645 AUTOMATIC ACCESS/RESTRICTION OF NFTS DANG, CHRISTINE 3698 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2021
17538293 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER AUTHENTICATION BASED ON MULTIPLE DEVICES JOHNSON, CARLTON 2436 §103 Final Rejection 149d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2021
17519444 STATIC UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS HAVING PLACEHOLDER PARAMETERS FOR DYNAMIC VALUES DOAN, HIEN VAN 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Nov 04, 2021
17516491 ELECTRONIC SERVICE FILTER OPTIMIZATION LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM 2146 §101 Final Rejection 30d Pending Nov 01, 2021
17489398 AUTOMATIC PAYMENT DETERMINATION HILMANTEL, ADAM J 3691 §101 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2021
17475837 FEATURE SELECTION USING MULTIVARIATE EFFECT OPTIMIZATION MODELS KIM, HARRISON CHAN YOUNG 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2021
17465343 Multi-Phase Training Techniques for Machine Learning Models Using Weighted Training Data BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 2121 §101 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2021
17395014 Federated Machine Learning Computer System Architecture KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2021
16935953 REAL-TIME MODIFICATION OF RISK MODELS BASED ON FEATURE STABILITY SMITH, SLADE E 3696 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2020
16687554 INTELLIGENT POPULATION OF INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR CONVERTING TRANSACTIONS PINSKY, DOUGLAS W 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2019

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