Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

The Bank of New York Mellon

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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.

3
Hard (27%)
5
Medium (45%)
2
Easy (18%)
1
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (27%)
§103 only4 (36%)
§102 only1 (9%)
§112 only1 (9%)
Double-patenting only1 (9%)
No statute on record1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
64% of docket
2
Communications
18% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
1
Business / Other
9% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, QUYNH H 1 87.3% +17.2%
APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER 1 88.2% +24.5%
SHIH, HAOSHIAN 1 69.4% +20.5%
YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY 1 70.6% +32.4%
YU, ARIEL J 1 40.3% +27.5%
LIN, KATHERINE Y 1 91.2% +6.4%
WU, NICHOLAS S 1 50.9% +31.8%
MULLINAX, CLINT LEE 1 46.9% +36.8%
MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 1 61.5% +55.6%
BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL 1 90.0% +33.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18311346 COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEM RECOVERY BASED ON NON-LINEAR DATA RECOVERY MODELS LIN, KATHERINE Y 16d overdue
18962821 DATA REUSE COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE NGUYEN, QUYNH H
17940159 MAPPING ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS TO DATA FOR DEEP LEARNING BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17884165 RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS WITH GAUSSIAN MIXTURE BASED NORMALIZATION JABLON, ASHER H. 16d overdue
18344541 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BREAK RESOLUTION AUTOMATION YU, ARIEL J 14d
18096243 SEGMENTED MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MODELING WITH PERIOD-OVER-PERIOD ANALYSIS MULLINAX, CLINT LEE

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
17978537 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORECASTING UTILIZING LAGGED AND CORRELATED DATA SETS MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 45d overdue
18649444 USER INTERFACE LEVELING FOR RENDERING NON-LINEAR DATA BASED ON A COLUMNAR FORMAT SHIH, HAOSHIAN 17d overdue
18344541 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BREAK RESOLUTION AUTOMATION YU, ARIEL J 14d
18962821 DATA REUSE COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE NGUYEN, QUYNH H
18790613 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING A FIRST CODING LANGUAGE INTO A SECOND CODING LANGUAGE APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER
18418969 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AND NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CATEGORICAL CLASSIFICATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY
18166696 DIRECTIONAL DRIVERS OF DEEP LEARNING MODELS BASED ON MODEL GRADIENTS WU, NICHOLAS S
18096243 SEGMENTED MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MODELING WITH PERIOD-OVER-PERIOD ANALYSIS MULLINAX, CLINT LEE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2658 1
2179 1
2656 1
3627 1
2113 1
2148 1
2123 1
2124 1
2126 1
2127 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18962821 DATA REUSE COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE NGUYEN, QUYNH H 2658 DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2024
18790613 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING A FIRST CODING LANGUAGE INTO A SECOND CODING LANGUAGE APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2024
18649444 USER INTERFACE LEVELING FOR RENDERING NON-LINEAR DATA BASED ON A COLUMNAR FORMAT SHIH, HAOSHIAN 2179 §112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18418969 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AND NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CATEGORICAL CLASSIFICATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY 2656 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 22, 2024
18344541 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BREAK RESOLUTION AUTOMATION YU, ARIEL J 3627 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18311346 COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEM RECOVERY BASED ON NON-LINEAR DATA RECOVERY MODELS LIN, KATHERINE Y 2113 §102 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18166696 DIRECTIONAL DRIVERS OF DEEP LEARNING MODELS BASED ON MODEL GRADIENTS WU, NICHOLAS S 2148 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 09, 2023
18096243 SEGMENTED MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MODELING WITH PERIOD-OVER-PERIOD ANALYSIS MULLINAX, CLINT LEE 2123 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2023
17978537 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORECASTING UTILIZING LAGGED AND CORRELATED DATA SETS MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17940159 MAPPING ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS TO DATA FOR DEEP LEARNING BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL 2126 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 08, 2022
17884165 RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS WITH GAUSSIAN MIXTURE BASED NORMALIZATION JABLON, ASHER H. 2127 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2022

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