Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

The Toronto-dominion Bank

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

150 pending office actions • 87 art units • 144 examiners • 0 of 150 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 133 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

The Toronto Dominion Bank currently manages 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is NGUYEN, LOAN T, who is handling the 1 pending action currently on record.

The company's prosecution activity is highly concentrated, with only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner involved. Because the entire current workload is within 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is focused on a single technical area. Success for the portfolio at this stage depends on the specific requirements and feedback from NGUYEN, LOAN T regarding this 1 pending action. Practitioners should analyze the examination history of NGUYEN, LOAN T within the 1 distinct art unit to anticipate potential rejections. Since there are no other pending actions, the company can dedicate its full attention to resolving this 1 pending office action efficiently. A tailored response that addresses the specific concerns of the 1 distinct examiner will be critical for achieving an allowance and advancing the company's patent position in the computing sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

150
Total Pending OAs
82
Non-Final OAs
58
Final Rejections
10
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 31 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
2
Due this week
10
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 31 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (5)

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.

104
Hard (69%)
42
Medium (28%)
4
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only21 (14%)
§101 + other64 (43%)
§103 only37 (25%)
§102 only3 (2%)
§112 only3 (2%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Double-patenting + other2 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)19 (13%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
81
Information Tech
54% of docket
13
Communications
9% of docket
1
Semiconductors
1% of docket
53
Mechanical / Eng
35% of docket
2
Business / Other
1% 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.

1,500 h
Manual time on pending OAs
300 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
525 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
13.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUCK, BRANDON M 2 63.1% +18.2%
ALI, JAHED 2 62.4% +52.8%
CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 2 64.6% +29.8%
SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 2 73.9% +37.1%
GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A 2 22.0% +23.3%
AGUILERA, TODD 2 57.5% +56.9%
KHATRI, NILESH B 1 61.7% +24.2%
FENSTERMACHER, JASON B 1 47.3% +37.4%
MUSTAFA, MOHAMMED H 1 35.2% +30.2%
ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 1 67.0% +25.7%

Hard Cases (105)

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
19037708 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF RESOURCE REQUESTS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 32d overdue
18935005 System and Method for Managing Multiple Transactional Workflows WEINER, ARIELLE E 28d overdue
18767513 Assisted Channel Credit Applications with Automatic Integration into Digital Wallets CHISM, STEVEN R 23d overdue
17405939 TWO-HEADED ATTENTION FUSED AUTOENCODER FOR CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDATION ALSHAHARI, SADIK AHMED 5d
17472253 DYNAMIC PROVISIONING OF DATA EXCHANGES BASED ON DETECTED RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN PROCESSED IMAGE DATA MACCAGNO, PIERRE L 13d
18740869 Curbside Branch Optimization DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 15d
17866630 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING A SECOND RESOURCE TYPE TO REPLACE OR OFFSET A FIRST RESOURCE TYPE CHU JOY, JORGE A 15d
19020498 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO RESOURCES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT WAESCO, JOSEPH M 16d

Interview Candidates (16)

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
19037708 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF RESOURCE REQUESTS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 32d overdue
18462358 GENERATION OF AUTOMATION TEST SCRIPT USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGUILERA, TODD 30d overdue
18620771 TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL BASED ON AGGREGATING ANNOTATED COMMUNICATION CONTENT SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 55d
18633777 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TRANSFER MESSAGES BASED ON UNSTRUCTURED DATA SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 63d
18466792 AUTOMATED GENERATION OF TEST DATA AGUILERA, TODD 69d
19546746 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DATA TRANSFER RECOMMENDATIONS KHATRI, NILESH B —
19402275 AUTHENTICATION USING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AS PROOF OF ACCOUNT OWNERSHIP FENSTERMACHER, JASON B —
19345501 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING PREDICTION TASKS FROM TABULAR DATA USING A HIERARCHICAL SET OF ENCODER MACHINE LEARNING MODELS MUSTAFA, MOHAMMED H —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3694 8
2174 5
3695 5
3699 4
2659 4
2192 4
2191 4
3693 3
3696 3
3689 3

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19546746 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DATA TRANSFER RECOMMENDATIONS KHATRI, NILESH B 3699 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 23, 2026
19402275 AUTHENTICATION USING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AS PROOF OF ACCOUNT OWNERSHIP FENSTERMACHER, JASON B 3698 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 26, 2025
19345501 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING PREDICTION TASKS FROM TABULAR DATA USING A HIERARCHICAL SET OF ENCODER MACHINE LEARNING MODELS MUSTAFA, MOHAMMED H 3693 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2025
19321474 System and Method for Ingesting Data Based on Processed Metadata ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 2154 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 08, 2025
19307371 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING A TRANSFER OF RESOURCES JACOB, WILLIAM J 3696 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2025
19306340 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED APPOINTMENT OPERATIONS CLARE, MARK C 3628 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 21, 2025
19267597 DYNAMIC IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF HASH-BASED CONSENT AND PERMISSIONING PROTOCOLS SHOLEMAN, ABU S 2496 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 13, 2025
19262408 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ONLINE STOREFRONTS EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2025
19261347 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME CHEQUE PROCESSING AND RETURN AT AN AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE MILEF, ELDA G 3694 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 07, 2025
19260389 SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DATA TRANSFER ACCELERATION LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 2161 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 04, 2025
19253290 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY RECOMMENDING ONLINE ACTIONS O'SHEA, BRENDAN S 3626 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jun 27, 2025
19245639 System and Method for Authenticating Client Devices Communicating with an Enterprise System PALIWAL, YOGESH 2431 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 23, 2025
19236792 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING A DIGITAL CARD IN AN ELECTRONIC WALLET DUCK, BRANDON M 3693 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 12, 2025
19233388 THREAT DETECTION AND MITIGATION IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT 2458 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
19233649 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBSTITUTING BORROWED RESOURCES ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR OWNED RESOURCES SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 2493 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
19233416 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SECURE DATA RECORDS IN A WEB BROWSING SESSION SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN 2168 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
19218453 USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IMPROVE USER INTERACTIONS TORGRIMSON, TYLER J 2165 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 26, 2025
19209181 IDENTIFYING AND MITIGATING DISPARATE GROUP IMPACT IN DIFFERENTIAL-PRIVACY MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS LEMMA, SAMSON B 2498 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 15, 2025
19205163 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED TRANSFER OF DIGITAL ASSETS ROSEN, NICHOLAS D 3689 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2025
19194038 DYNAMIC PUSH NOTIFICATIONS WOO, ANDREW M 2458 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2025
19189924 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED APPLICATION AND PROVISIONING ALI, JAHED 3699 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2025
19174408 MULTI-STAGE LOGICAL STORAGE AREA PROVISIONING CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B 2444 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
19053486 MULTI-PART REQUEST FOR TRANSFERS ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2025
19044063 COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE TOPICS LINKED TO DIGITAL TEXT BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S 2658 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 03, 2025
19037708 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF RESOURCE REQUESTS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 3694 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2025
19020498 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO RESOURCES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jan 14, 2025
19017993 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING LOCATION BASED MULTIPLIER NOTIFICATIONS SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD 3621 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 13, 2025
19016856 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING EXPECTED LOSS USING A MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK GIERINGER, MELINDA J 3622 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 10, 2025
18990784 GENERATING ADAPTIVE TEXTUAL EXPLANATIONS OF OUTPUT PREDICTED BY TRAINED ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES SIRJANI, FARIBA 2659 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18988381 WEAKLY SUPERVISED ACTION SELECTION LEARNING IN VIDEO BHATNAGAR, ANAND P 2668 §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18965530 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED MASKING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION DATA BOYD, MALA DENAE 2497 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18958377 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA ACCESS DUCK, BRANDON M 3693 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 25, 2024
18935005 System and Method for Managing Multiple Transactional Workflows WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101§103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18934780 SECURE RESOLUTION OF EMAIL-BASED QUERIES INVOLVING CONFIDENTIAL THIRD-PARTY DATA LI, MENG 2437 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18934490 SENTIMENT-BASED ZOOM CONTROL AT A USER INTERFACE PARCHER, DANIEL W 2174 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18906051 MANAGING THIRD-PARTY ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL DATA USING DYNAMICALLY GENERATED APPLICATION-SPECIFIC CREDENTIALS HOLDER, BRADLEY W 2408 §103DP Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2024
18903771 OPTIMIZING THROUGHPUT OF MACHINE-LEARNING APPLICATIONS TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN 2196 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 01, 2024
18897062 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING DATA TRANSFERS TURCHEN, JAMES R 2439 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18817505 NEAREST NEIGHBOR RETRIEVAL AND FINE-TUNING FOR IN-CONTEXT LEARNING MODEL CONYERS, DAWAUNE A 2159 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 28, 2024
18814953 ACCUMULATED DATA TRANSFER AMOUNT ACCESS ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R 2192 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 26, 2024
18799411 COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A TEXT-TO-SQL GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHAT WITH PERSONALIZED RESPONSES SHIN, SEONG-AH A 2659 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 09, 2024
18796667 CENTRALIZED PROCESSES FOR FEATURE GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN WEB-BASED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS TRAN, TRAVIS VIET 2191 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 07, 2024
18793065 METHODS FOR DIGITAL ACCESS MANAGEMENT ON A COMPUTING DEVICE HERZOG, MADHURI R 2438 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 02, 2024
18787799 System and Method for Executing Exchanges With Fractional Amounts PROIOS, GEORGE N 3694 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18778030 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DRIVEN IDENTITY CHECKING WITH IMAGE VALIDATION PATEL, DHAIRYA A 2453 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 19, 2024
18776840 BIFURCATING AN EVENT TO PREVENT AN ADVERSE ACTION CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 3694 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 18, 2024
18767513 Assisted Channel Credit Applications with Automatic Integration into Digital Wallets CHISM, STEVEN R 3692 §101 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18765861 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING USER ACCESSIBILITY OF WEBPAGES TSUI, WILSON W 2172 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2024
18763621 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF COMPUTING RESOURCES MADAMBA, GLENFORD J 2451 §102§103Other Final Rejection — Pending Jul 03, 2024
18754997 DATA REPORTING ARCHITECTURE FOR APPLICATIONS EYERS, DUSTIN D 2164 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jun 26, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does The Toronto-dominion Bank have?

The Toronto-dominion Bank has 150 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 87 art units and 144 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most The Toronto-dominion Bank applications?

Brandon M Duck has the most, with 2 of The Toronto-dominion Bank's pending office actions.

What technology area are The Toronto-dominion Bank's patent applications in?

Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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