Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Royal Bank Of Canada

48 pending office actions • 30 art units • 45 examiners • 0 of 48 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 58 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

48
Total Pending OAs
27
Non-Final OAs
21
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 46 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

20
Overdue
1
Due this week
15
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 46 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (20)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (15)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (3)

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.

15
Hard (31%)
25
Medium (52%)
5
Easy (10%)
3
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only15 (31%)
§103 only25 (52%)
§112 only5 (10%)
No statute on record3 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
18
Information Tech
38% of docket
2
Communications
4% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
28
Mechanical / Eng
58% 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.

480 h
Manual time on pending OAs
96 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
168 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 2 15.1% +16.6%
ALI, JAHED 2 61.5% +56.1%
CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 2 65.0% +33.5%
SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 1 6.3% +8.4%
MAI, KEVIN S 1 29.1% +26.1%
MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 1 25.8% +25.4%
SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 1 61.9% +26.7%
RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR 1 90.9% +8.2%
HOANG, SON T 1 83.4% +35.0%
TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 1 14.3% -20.0%

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
18920708 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR 21d
18892241 NEURAL NETWORK FOR EVENT PREDICTION HOANG, SON T 22d

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
18108481 PROCESSING OF ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 60d overdue
17583398 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH PRETRAINED LANGUAGE MODELS KIM, ETHAN DANIEL 60d overdue
18920875 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM MAI, KEVIN S 43d overdue
18453170 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL GREENHOUSE GAS ESTIMATION GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON 42d overdue
18808859 PREDICTING FINANCIAL METRICS SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 22d overdue
18776973 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSET MAINTENANCE PLANNING NING, PETER Y 8d overdue
18920872 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 4d overdue
18812236 PRODUCT BUNDLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 3d overdue

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
16684546 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-BORDER BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM ALI, JAHED 71d overdue
18108481 PROCESSING OF ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 60d overdue
18920875 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM MAI, KEVIN S 43d overdue
18920872 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 4d overdue
18920876 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 2d overdue
18892241 NEURAL NETWORK FOR EVENT PREDICTION HOANG, SON T 22d
18771141 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DYNAMICALLY PRESENTING DATASETS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 39d
15884847 SECURE FUNDING OF ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 65d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3624 6
3625 4
3691 3
3694 3
3695 3
3628 2
2658 2
3699 2
3696 2
2499 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18960490 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC AUDIT INFORMATION LABELLING SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 26, 2024
18920875 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM MAI, KEVIN S 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2024
18920872 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2024
18920876 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2024
18920708 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAAS DATA CONTROL PLATFORM RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR 2498 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18892241 NEURAL NETWORK FOR EVENT PREDICTION HOANG, SON T 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18812236 PRODUCT BUNDLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2024
18811215 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED INSIGHTS OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS BASED ON AI ASSISTED ANALYSIS HENRY, MATTHEW D 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18808859 PREDICTING FINANCIAL METRICS SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 3691 §101 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2024
18776973 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSET MAINTENANCE PLANNING NING, PETER Y 3661 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2024
18771141 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DYNAMICALLY PRESENTING DATASETS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 3624 Other Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18766462 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR PARTIALLY-OBSERVED MULTIMODAL DATA OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 2658 Other Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jul 08, 2024
18634835 SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ALI, JAHED 3699 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18627414 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR CYBER SECURITY KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT 2408 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 04, 2024
18597355 AUTOMATED INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISIONING OF CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS WU, DAXIN 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18497816 PRO-ACTIVE DETECTION OF MISAPPROPRIATION OF WEBSITE SOURCE CODE TIV, BACKHEAN 2459 §112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 30, 2023
18384806 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO-POPULATING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION PROCESS RANKINS, WILLIAM E 3694 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18244194 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKEN-BASED BROWSER EXTENSION FRAMEWORK RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18242164 SYNCHRONIZED PROCESSING OF DATA BY NETWORKED COMPUTING RESOURCES JACOB, WILLIAM J 3696 §112 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2023
18238397 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION LEE, ADAM 2198 §112 Final Rejection 54d Pending Aug 25, 2023
18455332 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING DATA QUALITY METRICS MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18237232 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING PROACTIVE RECRUITMENT WEBB III, JAMES L 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18454571 DATA MAPPING METHOD AND SYSTEM FU, HAO 3695 §101 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18453170 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL GREENHOUSE GAS ESTIMATION GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
18233466 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING USER DATA IN ACCESSING OF INSTITUTIONAL PRODUCTS GREGG, MARY M 3695 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Aug 14, 2023
18199611 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-SUPPERVISED TIME-SERIES REPRESENTATION LEARNING BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending May 19, 2023
18115731 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMPATHY-BASED MACHINE LEARNING ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2100 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18108481 PROCESSING OF ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 3694 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
17959900 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTI-TASK LEARNING WITH DYNAMIC NEURAL NETWORKS BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL 2126 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Oct 04, 2022
17943958 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENFORCING MONOTONICITY IN A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE THAI, JASMINE THANH 2129 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 13, 2022
17891548 DYNAMIC ESG VISUALIZATION YESILDAG, MEHMET 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 19, 2022
17891816 METHOD OF DETERMINING WHETHER A FRAUD CLAIM IS LEGITIMATE PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2022
17837882 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK SENSITIVE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING ARCHITECTURE LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM 2146 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jun 10, 2022
17749678 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS DYNAMICS MODEL FROM IRREGULAR TIME-SERIES DATA MAC, GARY 2127 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 20, 2022
17592196 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-TASK LEARNING WITH EXPERT DIVERSITY PATEL, LOKESHA G 2125 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2022
17583398 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH PRETRAINED LANGUAGE MODELS KIM, ETHAN DANIEL 2658 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2022
17561215 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DYNAMIC GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR RESOURCE POOL ALLOCATION RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 3626 §112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Dec 23, 2021
17531161 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FRAUDULENT ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS HILMANTEL, ADAM J 3691 §101 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 19, 2021
17474007 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPARTY SECURE COMPUTING PLATFORM FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 13, 2021
17466870 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION AMONG NETWORKED COMPUTING DEVICES PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR 3696 §101 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 03, 2021
17411636 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH LOCAL STATE AND REWARD DATA KEATON, SHERROD L 2148 Other Final Rejection 21d Pending Aug 25, 2021
17411666 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE WITH A MEMORY MANAGEMENT MODULE WALTON, CHESIREE A 3624 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2021
17397460 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH SUPPLEMENTED STATE DATA SINGLETARY, TYRONE E 3625 §112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Aug 09, 2021
16994138 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC RENTAL PLATFORM GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 3624 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2020
16684546 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-BORDER BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM ALI, JAHED 3699 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2019
15923310 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U 3695 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2018
15884847 SECURE FUNDING OF ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 3694 §101 Final Rejection 65d Pending Jan 31, 2018
15704136 CREDIT SCORE PLATFORM POLLOCK, GREGORY A 3691 §101 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 14, 2017

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