Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Uber Technologies, Inc.

29 pending office actions • 19 art units • 29 examiners • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

29
Total Pending OAs
20
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
2
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 29 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (2)

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.

5
Hard (17%)
22
Medium (76%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (17%)
§103 only19 (66%)
§102 only2 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (3%)
No statute on record2 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
21% of docket
1
Communications
3% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
22
Mechanical / Eng
76% 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.

290 h
Manual time on pending OAs
58 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
102 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALSH, EMMETT K 1 53.1% +20.3%
HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS 1 40.9% +33.6%
WOO, ANDREW M 1 82.7% +45.0%
HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 1 27.2% +24.8%
KYU, TAYAR M 1 36.3% +37.0%
LAU, HOI CHING 1 74.3% +16.2%
SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B 1 56.8% +43.9%
BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH 1 67.6% +35.0%
SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 1 31.5% +25.6%
HAN, CHARLES J 1 68.6% +42.9%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18478268 Merchant Selection Model for Dynamic Management of Add-Ons for Delivery Service Orders AIRAPETIAN, MILA 127d overdue
18737802 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AN ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENT SERVICE FOR RECHARGING OF VEHICLES STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 38d overdue
17884452 MULTI-STAGED EVENT PROCESSING BASED ON CLIENT DEVICE DATA AYAD, MARIA S 30d overdue
19007350 NETWORK SYSTEM TO MONITOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON CLIENT-SIDE DATA AND PROGRAMMATICALLY TRIGGER OPERATIONS HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 25d overdue
18933783 COORDINATING TRANSPORT THROUGH A COMMON RENDEZVOUS LOCATION KYU, TAYAR M 7d
18813707 TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVISION WITH A VEHICLE FLEET ALLEN, WILLIAM J 41d

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
18892090 DYNAMIC ROUTE RECOMMENDATION FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS HAN, CHARLES J 42d overdue
18925847 VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ALERTS TO DRIVERS LAU, HOI CHING 36d overdue
19012716 PREDICTION ENGINE FOR A NETWORK-BASED SERVICE WOO, ANDREW M 25d overdue
19007350 NETWORK SYSTEM TO MONITOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON CLIENT-SIDE DATA AND PROGRAMMATICALLY TRIGGER OPERATIONS HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 25d overdue
18933783 COORDINATING TRANSPORT THROUGH A COMMON RENDEZVOUS LOCATION KYU, TAYAR M 7d
18905869 SAFETY ROUTING IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH 13d
19229170 LOCATION ACCURACY SYSTEM WALSH, EMMETT K 19d
19069707 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE CONTROL USING SERVICE POOLS ACROSS DIFFERENT SERVICE ENTITIES HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3628 4
3625 3
3688 3
3666 3
3623 2
2441 1
2689 1
3665 1
3619 1
2165 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19229170 LOCATION ACCURACY SYSTEM WALSH, EMMETT K 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jun 05, 2025
19069707 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE CONTROL USING SERVICE POOLS ACROSS DIFFERENT SERVICE ENTITIES HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS 3628 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Mar 04, 2025
19012716 PREDICTION ENGINE FOR A NETWORK-BASED SERVICE WOO, ANDREW M 2441 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jan 07, 2025
19007350 NETWORK SYSTEM TO MONITOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON CLIENT-SIDE DATA AND PROGRAMMATICALLY TRIGGER OPERATIONS HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Dec 31, 2024
18933783 COORDINATING TRANSPORT THROUGH A COMMON RENDEZVOUS LOCATION KYU, TAYAR M 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18925847 VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ALERTS TO DRIVERS LAU, HOI CHING 2689 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18905958 MULTI-LAYER OPTIMIZATION FOR A MULTI-SIDED NETWORK SERVICE SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B 3688 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 03, 2024
18905869 SAFETY ROUTING IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 03, 2024
18902378 NETWORK SYSTEM TO DETERMINE A ROUTE BASED ON TIMING DATA SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18892090 DYNAMIC ROUTE RECOMMENDATION FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS HAN, CHARLES J 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2024
18813707 TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVISION WITH A VEHICLE FLEET ALLEN, WILLIAM J 3619 §101 Final Rejection 41d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18812225 ROUTE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM BASED ON HEIGHT PARAMETER FOR A LEVEL AT A POINT OF INTEREST GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT 3628 §102 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2024
18743356 PROGRESS ANOMALY DETECTION JONES, JODI MARIE 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18737802 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AN ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENT SERVICE FOR RECHARGING OF VEHICLES STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 3623 §101 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2024
18651077 Dynamic Data Object Distribution Based on Historical Performance PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18622752 MULTI-MODE USER INTERFACE FOR JOB ORDERS KNIGHT, LETORIA G 3623 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18598874 Systems and Methods for Query Cancellation SHARPLESS, SAMUEL 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18585692 POPULAR ROUTE INFERENCE AND RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM TRAN, ALYSE TRAMANH 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18421854 PROGRAMMATIC DATA SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE REMEDIATION FOR NETWORK COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BECHTEL, KEVIN M 2491 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2024
18418911 PROGRAMMATICALLY PROVIDING INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH LOCATION-BASED SERVICES TO SERVICE PROVIDERS YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH 3625 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18480961 Using Hash Based Mechanism to Discover Caller Path in a Micro-Service Graph HO, ANDY 2194 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2023
18478268 Merchant Selection Model for Dynamic Management of Add-Ons for Delivery Service Orders AIRAPETIAN, MILA 3688 §101 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18359835 COMPLEX NAVIGATION MANEUVER REDUCTION CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT 3663 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18297933 TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVISION WITH A VEHICLE FLEET SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18295012 Real-Time Item Selection Model for Shopper THEIN, MARIA TERESA T 3689 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18099328 DEEP LEARNING BASED ARRIVAL TIME PREDICTION SYSTEM NGUYEN, MAIKHANH 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
17884452 MULTI-STAGED EVENT PROCESSING BASED ON CLIENT DEVICE DATA AYAD, MARIA S 2172 §101 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2022
17866293 NETWORK COMPUTING SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR NETWORK SERVICES NGUYEN, TAN D 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022
16703803 POINT OF INTEREST SEARCH ALONG A ROUTE SHAFI, MUHAMMAD 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 04, 2019

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