Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Uber Technologies Inc.

29 pending office actions • 17 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

20
Hard (69%)
7
Medium (24%)
2
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (7%)
§101 + other17 (59%)
§103 only5 (17%)
Double-patenting only2 (7%)
Double-patenting + other2 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
19
Mechanical / Eng
66% of docket
8
Business / Other
28% 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
TO, TUAN C 2 86.0% +10.0%
NGUYEN, CUONG H 1 78.5% +8.9%
WALSH, EMMETT K 1 52.7% +19.9%
BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 1 29.1% +21.1%
DELIGI, VANESSA LIMA 1 56.3% +38.0%
ELCHANTI, ZEINA 1 64.2% +25.1%
JEANTY, ROMAIN 1 75.5% +19.8%
ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE 1 92.9% +4.5%
HUYNH, LUAT T 1 93.1% +8.6%
CASS, JEAN PAUL 1 72.9% +25.3%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19238109 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DELIVERY INGESTION AND ROUTING TO, TUAN C
19075617 STATE-BASED AUTONOMOUS-VEHICLE OPERATIONS ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE

Hard Cases (20)

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
18359835 COMPLEX NAVIGATION MANEUVER REDUCTION CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT 97d overdue
17866293 NETWORK COMPUTING SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR NETWORK SERVICES NGUYEN, TAN D 44d overdue
19007350 NETWORK SYSTEM TO MONITOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON CLIENT-SIDE DATA AND PROGRAMMATICALLY TRIGGER OPERATIONS HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 25d overdue
18295012 Real-Time Item Selection Model for Shopper TC 3600, DOCKET 24d overdue
18902378 NETWORK SYSTEM TO DETERMINE A ROUTE BASED ON TIMING DATA SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 41d
18813707 TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVISION WITH A VEHICLE FLEET ALLEN, WILLIAM J 41d
18905958 MULTI-LAYER OPTIMIZATION FOR A MULTI-SIDED NETWORK SERVICE SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B 70d
18651077 Dynamic Data Object Distribution Based on Historical Performance PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 83d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
19229170 LOCATION ACCURACY SYSTEM WALSH, EMMETT K 19d
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
19217747 AI Assistant for Delivery DELIGI, VANESSA LIMA
19195149 PROACTIVE DELIVERY OF NAVIGATION OPTIONS TO, TUAN C
19173365 ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT SERVICES ELCHANTI, ZEINA
19091680 ON-DEMAND TRANSPORT SELECTION PROCESS FACILITATING THIRD-PARTY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES JEANTY, ROMAIN
19030845 COMPUTER SYSTEM ARRANGING TRANSPORT SERVICES FOR USERS BASED ON THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL INFORMATION CASS, JEAN PAUL

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3625 4
3688 2
3628 1
3661 1
3667 1
3666 1
2445 1
3619 1
3662 1
3669 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19313044 DYNAMIC INVITATION TRANSMISSION AND PRESENTATION MODE DETERMINATION FOR A NETWORK-BASED SERVICE NGUYEN, CUONG H §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 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
19217747 AI Assistant for Delivery DELIGI, VANESSA LIMA §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2025
19195149 PROACTIVE DELIVERY OF NAVIGATION OPTIONS TO, TUAN C §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 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
19075617 STATE-BASED AUTONOMOUS-VEHICLE OPERATIONS ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE, GERTRUDE 3661 DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 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
19030845 COMPUTER SYSTEM ARRANGING TRANSPORT SERVICES FOR USERS BASED ON THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL INFORMATION CASS, JEAN PAUL 3666 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19030835 PREDICTIVE LOCATION SELECTION SYSTEM KEEHN, RICHARD G §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19011209 MULTI-INVITATION MODE FOR TRANSPORT SERVICES JOO, JOSHUA 2445 §103 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
18905958 MULTI-LAYER OPTIMIZATION FOR A MULTI-SIDED NETWORK SERVICE SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B 3688 §101§102DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 03, 2024
18902378 NETWORK SYSTEM TO DETERMINE A ROUTE BASED ON TIMING DATA SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18890898 Systems for Routing and Controlling Vehicles for Freight GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18813707 TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVISION WITH A VEHICLE FLEET ALLEN, WILLIAM J 3619 §101§112 Final Rejection 41d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18813682 TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVISION WITH A VEHICLE FLEET COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN 3662 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 23, 2024
18658236 NETWORK COMPUTER SYSTEM TO POSITION SERVICE PROVIDERS USING PROVISIONING LEVEL DETERMINATIONS HUTCHINSON, ALAN D 3669 §101DP Final Rejection Pending May 08, 2024
18651077 Dynamic Data Object Distribution Based on Historical Performance PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §101§103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18650785 SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING A CONTENT DELIVERY PLATFORM TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN 3625 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18481015 CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND THE SERVICE SELECTION OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON 3665 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2023
18359835 COMPLEX NAVIGATION MANEUVER REDUCTION CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT 3663 §101§103 Non-Final OA 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
18295012 Real-Time Item Selection Model for Shopper TC 3600, DOCKET 3689 §101§103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Apr 03, 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 §101§103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022
18990522 Generating Motion Scenarios for Self-Driving Vehicles REINERT, JONATHAN E 3668 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024

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