Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 10, 2026

The Toronto-dominion Bank

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

164 pending office actions • 73 art units • 154 examiners • 0 of 164 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 135 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

164
Total Pending OAs
94
Non-Final OAs
61
Final Rejections
9
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 44 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
2
Due this week
14
Due this month
12
Due in next 60 days
6
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. 44 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (14)Due ≤ 60 days (12)Due later (6)

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.

113
Hard (69%)
47
Medium (29%)
4
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only22 (13%)
§101 + other73 (45%)
§103 only40 (24%)
§102 only4 (2%)
§112 only3 (2%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Double-patenting + other3 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)18 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
64
Information Tech
39% of docket
13
Communications
8% of docket
1
Semiconductors
1% of docket
47
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
39
Business / Other
24% 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.

1,640 h
Manual time on pending OAs
328 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
574 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
14.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUCK, BRANDON M 2 63.1% +18.2%
SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 2 85.2% +15.5%
ALI, JAHED 2 62.4% +52.8%
PARCHER, DANIEL W 2 60.9% +58.2%
SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 2 68.4% +33.0%
GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A 2 22.1% +23.4%
PHAM, LINH K 2 80.8% +28.9%
AGUILERA, TODD 2 57.6% +57.6%
PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR 2 54.9% +6.7%
PAULINO, LENIN 2 57.6% +26.2%

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
19233649 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBSTITUTING BORROWED RESOURCES ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR OWNED RESOURCES SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A —
19198069 DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CONSENT AND PERMISSIONING PROTOCOLS USING CONTAINER-BASED APPLICATIONS SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A —

Hard Cases (114)

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
18617068 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME PROCESSING OF ACCOUNT OPERATIONS OF A RESOURCE ACCOUNT POINVIL, FRANTZY 19d overdue
17405939 TWO-HEADED ATTENTION FUSED AUTOENCODER FOR CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDATION ALSHAHARI, SADIK AHMED 5d
18412255 DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE CONTENT WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PARCHER, DANIEL W 12d
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

Interview Candidates (18)

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
18462358 GENERATION OF AUTOMATION TEST SCRIPT USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGUILERA, TODD 30d overdue
18412255 DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE CONTENT WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PARCHER, DANIEL W 12d
18412299 DISPLAY RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON SIMILARITY OF CONTENT PHAM, LINH K 48d
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
19236792 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING A DIGITAL CARD IN AN ELECTRONIC WALLET DUCK, BRANDON M —
19233649 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBSTITUTING BORROWED RESOURCES ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR OWNED RESOURCES SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3694 7
2192 5
3695 5
2174 5
3699 4
2659 4
3698 3
3693 3
3625 3
2654 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
19403549 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPLETING A DATA TRANSFER DANG, CHRISTINE 3698 §101§102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 28, 2025
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
19315912 System, Method, And Device for Uploading Data from Premises to Remote Computing Environments GOFMAN, ALEX N 2163 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 02, 2025
19307371 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING A TRANSFER OF RESOURCES JACOB, WILLIAM J — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2025
19267597 DYNAMIC IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF HASH-BASED CONSENT AND PERMISSIONING PROTOCOLS SHOLEMAN, ABU S — §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 13, 2025
19262408 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ONLINE STOREFRONTS EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A — §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
19253290 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY RECOMMENDING ONLINE ACTIONS O'SHEA, BRENDAN S 3626 §101§103Other 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 — §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 12, 2025
19233649 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBSTITUTING BORROWED RESOURCES ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR OWNED RESOURCES SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A — §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 — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
19233388 THREAT DETECTION AND MITIGATION IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
19209181 IDENTIFYING AND MITIGATING DISPARATE GROUP IMPACT IN DIFFERENTIAL-PRIVACY MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS LEMMA, SAMSON B — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 15, 2025
19205163 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED TRANSFER OF DIGITAL ASSETS ROSEN, NICHOLAS D — §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2025
19198069 DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CONSENT AND PERMISSIONING PROTOCOLS USING CONTAINER-BASED APPLICATIONS SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 04, 2025
19194038 DYNAMIC PUSH NOTIFICATIONS WOO, ANDREW M — §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
19177602 SECURE DEPLOYMENT OF DE-RISKED CONFIDENTIAL DATA WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT LITTLE, VANCE M — §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 13, 2025
19174408 MULTI-STAGE LOGICAL STORAGE AREA PROVISIONING CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
19058668 MULTI-TABLE DATA STORAGE WITH AUDITABLE DATA CHANGES MORRIS, JOHN J 2152 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2025
19053486 MULTI-PART REQUEST FOR TRANSFERS ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §102§103 Final Rejection — 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 — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 13, 2025
18990784 GENERATING ADAPTIVE TEXTUAL EXPLANATIONS OF OUTPUT PREDICTED BY TRAINED ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES SIRJANI, FARIBA — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18988381 WEAKLY SUPERVISED ACTION SELECTION LEARNING IN VIDEO BHATNAGAR, ANAND P — §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
18934490 SENTIMENT-BASED ZOOM CONTROL AT A USER INTERFACE PARCHER, DANIEL W — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 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 — §101§103 Final Rejection — 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 — §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
18814953 ACCUMULATED DATA TRANSFER AMOUNT ACCESS ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R 2192 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 26, 2024
18805980 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING DATA RECORD CREATION AT A THIRD PARTY SERVER KIM, PAUL 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Aug 15, 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 — §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
18777414 DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF DATA DURING A CALL OR A CHAT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 2655 §101§103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18767513 Assisted Channel Credit Applications with Automatic Integration into Digital Wallets CHISM, STEVEN R 3692 §101§103 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
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 164 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 73 art units and 154 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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