Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Citibank N A

15 pending office actions • 14 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 143 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
7
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (7)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.

2
Hard (13%)
9
Medium (60%)
3
Easy (20%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (13%)
§103 only6 (40%)
§102 only2 (13%)
§112 only3 (20%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
7% of docket
9
Information Tech
60% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BROPHY, MATTHEW J 1 69.0% +33.6%
DING, CHUNLING 1 55.3% +61.3%
COLAN, GIOVANNA B 1 72.5% +28.5%
BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 1 82.5% +21.3%
NGUYEN, MERILYN P 1 87.0% +5.2%
TSANG, HENRY 1 79.3% +17.5%
BAYOU, YONAS A 1 84.2% +15.3%
SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 1 67.1% +37.3%
SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 1 53.7% +40.4%
DAGNEW, SABA 1 37.6% +17.7%

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
19038671 RESOLVING DATASET CORRUPTION OF TRANSFERRED DATASETS USING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE-AGNOSTIC DATA MODELING PLATFORMS NGUYEN, MERILYN P 15d
19076983 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME RECORDING OF TRANSFERS OF SELF-VALIDATING DIGITAL RECORDS ACROSS CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE NETWORKS USING CROSS-NETWORK REGISTRIES BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 23d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18771248 ACCOUNT PROGRAM SYSTEMS AND METHODS DAGNEW, SABA 26d
18733811 AUTOMATED FRAUD RISK ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z 84d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
19300347 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED TRANSACTION BREAK PREVENTION DING, CHUNLING 3d overdue
18907414 DYNAMIC INPUT-SENSITIVE VALIDATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL OUTPUTS AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF THE SAME BAYOU, YONAS A 13d
19076983 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME RECORDING OF TRANSFERS OF SELF-VALIDATING DIGITAL RECORDS ACROSS CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE NETWORKS USING CROSS-NETWORK REGISTRIES BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 23d
19247219 GENERATING INSIGHTS FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS COLAN, GIOVANNA B 26d
18771248 ACCOUNT PROGRAM SYSTEMS AND METHODS DAGNEW, SABA 26d
18787544 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY SHARING PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN ADDRESSES SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 28d
19328023 RESOURCE UTILIZATION ESTIMATION AND ALLOCATION FOR MULTI-AGENT COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BROPHY, MATTHEW J 54d
18932533 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCRYPTING DATA TSANG, HENRY 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3699 2
2191 1
2165 1
2168 1
2153 1
2495 1
2499 1
2459 1
3697 1
3621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19328023 RESOURCE UTILIZATION ESTIMATION AND ALLOCATION FOR MULTI-AGENT COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BROPHY, MATTHEW J 2191 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Sep 12, 2025
19300347 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED TRANSACTION BREAK PREVENTION DING, CHUNLING 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2025
19247219 GENERATING INSIGHTS FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS COLAN, GIOVANNA B 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 24, 2025
19076983 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME RECORDING OF TRANSFERS OF SELF-VALIDATING DIGITAL RECORDS ACROSS CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE NETWORKS USING CROSS-NETWORK REGISTRIES BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Mar 11, 2025
19038671 RESOLVING DATASET CORRUPTION OF TRANSFERRED DATASETS USING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE-AGNOSTIC DATA MODELING PLATFORMS NGUYEN, MERILYN P 2153 §102 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 27, 2025
18932533 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCRYPTING DATA TSANG, HENRY 2495 §112 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Oct 30, 2024
18907414 DYNAMIC INPUT-SENSITIVE VALIDATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODEL OUTPUTS AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF THE SAME BAYOU, YONAS A 2499 Other Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 04, 2024
18829185 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING REAL-TIME DELAYS IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS OVER COMPUTER NETWORKS IN AN ONGOING MANNER AND IN ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH USERS HAVE NO ACCESS TO INTERMEDIARY DEVICES USING A PARALLEL PROCESSING STREAM SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 2459 DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending Sep 09, 2024
18787544 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY SHARING PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN ADDRESSES SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 3697 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18771248 ACCOUNT PROGRAM SYSTEMS AND METHODS DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18733811 AUTOMATED FRAUD RISK ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z 3694 §101 Final Rejection 84d Pending Jun 04, 2024
18667778 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORMS TRAINED ON BLOCKCHAIN ACTION LINEAGES TO CONDUCT BLOCKCHAIN ACTIONS TRAORE, FATOUMATA 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending May 17, 2024
18661366 DISTRIBUTED DATABASE METHODS AND SYSTEMS IMMANUEL, ILSE I 3699 §112 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18443725 HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT OPERATION REVIEW WITH ANOMALY DETECTION, ADAPTIVE CONFIDENCE SCORING, AND MULTI-LAYERED CONTEXTUAL RISK SCORING TRIEU, EM N 2128 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 16, 2024
16804177 STORAGE-STABLE READY-TO-USE INJECTABLE FORMULATIONS OF FOSAPREPITANT DIMEGLUMINE BROWE, DAVID 1617 §102 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2020

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