Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
28 pending office actions • 13 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days
Uber Technologies Inc. is currently managing 28 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 28 actions are spread across 13 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of transportation and e-commerce innovations. The company interacts with 27 distinct examiners, so almost every action is reviewed by a different person. This distribution across 13 art units and 27 examiners requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to many different individual examiner preferences and art unit norms. The 28 pending office actions represent a significant volume of work.
YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. This count of 2 actions is the highest concentration for any single examiner in the portfolio. The other actions are handled by the remaining distinct examiners. With 28 pending actions spread across 27 examiners, there is very little concentration of cases. Practitioners should focus on the 2 actions under YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH while also addressing the broader group of 27 distinct examiners. The 28 pending office actions show a broad distribution of technical filings across the 13 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 6 (21%) |
| §101 + other | 10 (36%) |
| §103 only | 5 (18%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (4%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH | 2 | 30.3% | +17.4% |
| NGUYEN, CUONG H | 1 | 78.7% | +8.9% |
| WEISENFELD, ARYAN E | 1 | 41.1% | +25.5% |
| TO, TUAN C | 1 | 86.1% | +10.0% |
| WALSH, EMMETT K | 1 | 52.7% | +20.3% |
| BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD | 1 | 28.8% | +21.0% |
| ELCHANTI, ZEINA | 1 | 64.3% | +25.0% |
| JEANTY, ROMAIN | 1 | 75.7% | +19.6% |
| LEVY, MERRITT E | 1 | 32.3% | +33.5% |
| ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE | 1 | 92.8% | +4.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238109 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DELIVERY INGESTION AND ROUTING | TO, TUAN C | — |
| 19075617 | STATE-BASED AUTONOMOUS-VEHICLE OPERATIONS | ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359835 | COMPLEX NAVIGATION MANEUVER REDUCTION | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 97d overdue |
| 18622752 | MULTI-MODE USER INTERFACE FOR JOB ORDERS | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 44d overdue |
| 17866293 | NETWORK COMPUTING SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR NETWORK SERVICES | NGUYEN, TAN D | 44d overdue |
| 18737802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AN ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENT SERVICE FOR RECHARGING OF VEHICLES | STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R | 38d overdue |
| 19007350 | NETWORK SYSTEM TO MONITOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON CLIENT-SIDE DATA AND PROGRAMMATICALLY TRIGGER OPERATIONS | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 25d overdue |
| 18418911 | PROGRAMMATICALLY PROVIDING INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH LOCATION-BASED SERVICES TO SERVICE PROVIDERS | YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH | 9d |
| 19238027 | POINT OF INTEREST BASED PICKUP COORDINATION SYSTEM | WEISENFELD, ARYAN E | — |
| 19226737 | Systems and Methods for the Display of Corresponding Content for User-Requested Vehicle Services Using Distributed Electronic Devices | BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418911 | PROGRAMMATICALLY PROVIDING INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH LOCATION-BASED SERVICES TO SERVICE PROVIDERS | YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH | 9d |
| 19229170 | LOCATION ACCURACY SYSTEM | WALSH, EMMETT K | 19d |
| 19238027 | POINT OF INTEREST BASED PICKUP COORDINATION SYSTEM | WEISENFELD, ARYAN E | — |
| 19238109 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DELIVERY INGESTION AND ROUTING | TO, TUAN C | — |
| 19226737 | Systems and Methods for the Display of Corresponding Content for User-Requested Vehicle Services Using Distributed Electronic Devices | BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD | — |
| 19173365 | ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT SERVICES | ELCHANTI, ZEINA | — |
| 19091680 | ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT SELECTION PROCESS FACILITATING THIRD-PARTY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | JEANTY, ROMAIN | — |
| 19078800 | END OF ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM | LEVY, MERRITT E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 3 |
| 3628 | 2 |
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3623 | 2 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 2445 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19313044 | DYNAMIC INVITATION TRANSMISSION AND PRESENTATION MODE DETERMINATION FOR A NETWORK-BASED SERVICE | NGUYEN, CUONG H | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19238027 | POINT OF INTEREST BASED PICKUP COORDINATION SYSTEM | WEISENFELD, ARYAN E | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19238109 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DELIVERY INGESTION AND ROUTING | TO, TUAN C | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19229170 | LOCATION ACCURACY SYSTEM | WALSH, EMMETT K | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19226737 | Systems and Methods for the Display of Corresponding Content for User-Requested Vehicle Services Using Distributed Electronic Devices | BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD | — | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19173365 | ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT SERVICES | ELCHANTI, ZEINA | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19091680 | ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT SELECTION PROCESS FACILITATING THIRD-PARTY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | JEANTY, ROMAIN | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19078800 | END OF ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM | LEVY, MERRITT E | 3663 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19075617 | STATE-BASED AUTONOMOUS-VEHICLE OPERATIONS | ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE | 3661 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19030835 | PREDICTIVE LOCATION SELECTION SYSTEM | KEEHN, RICHARD G | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030854 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MULTIVARIATE OPTIMIZATIONS BASED ON LOCATION DATA | HUYNH, LUAT T | 3667 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19015030 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAVEL PLANNING THAT CALLS FOR AT LEAST ONE TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE UNIT | TROOST, AARON L | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19012139 | MANAGING THE OPERATIONAL STATE OF A VEHICLE | LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE | 3669 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19011385 | NETWORK SYSTEM TO FILTER REQUESTS BY DESTINATION AND DEADLINE | YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19011209 | MULTI-INVITATION MODE FOR TRANSPORT SERVICES | JOO, JOSHUA | 2445 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19007350 | NETWORK SYSTEM TO MONITOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON CLIENT-SIDE DATA AND PROGRAMMATICALLY TRIGGER OPERATIONS | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19000407 | Location Determination Based on Historical Service Data | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18971842 | ELEVATION-AWARE HOTSPOT GENERATION SYSTEM | MIAH, LITON | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18940228 | REAL-TIME MULTI-ORDER BATCHING USING MULTIPLE COURIERS | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18890898 | Systems for Routing and Controlling Vehicles for Freight | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18737802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AN ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENT SERVICE FOR RECHARGING OF VEHICLES | STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18622752 | MULTI-MODE USER INTERFACE FOR JOB ORDERS | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 3623 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18418911 | PROGRAMMATICALLY PROVIDING INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH LOCATION-BASED SERVICES TO SERVICE PROVIDERS | YOUNG, ASHLEY YA-SHEH | 3625 | §101DP | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18359835 | COMPLEX NAVIGATION MANEUVER REDUCTION | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 3663 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18313731 | Data Compression for Real-Time Analytics | VUONG, CAO DANG | 2153 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18297933 | TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVISION WITH A VEHICLE FLEET | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 17957892 | CONFIGURING INFRASTRUCTURE OF A NETWORK SERVICE BASED ON IMPACT TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN | GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17866293 | NETWORK COMPUTING SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR NETWORK SERVICES | NGUYEN, TAN D | 3629 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
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