Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
17 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days
U.S. Bancorp currently manages 15 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 15 actions are distributed across 14 distinct examiners, which suggests a high degree of individual examiner variety relative to the total volume of pending matters. The 8 distinct art units involved indicate that the company's intellectual property spans several specialized examination groups, requiring a strategy that accounts for different procedural nuances within the patent office.
Among the active personnel, Brophy, Matthew J is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 of the pending office actions. This specific concentration of 2 actions with one individual contrasts with the broader distribution across the 14 distinct examiners assigned to the portfolio. For a practitioner, the presence of 15 pending office actions across 8 distinct art units necessitates a versatile approach to prosecution, as each unit may apply different interpretations of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems guidelines.
The fact that 14 distinct examiners are handling 15 pending office actions implies that most examiners are only managing a single case for this entity. This lack of examiner overlap, with the exception of Brophy, Matthew J and his 2 pending actions, means that institutional knowledge gained from one prosecution may not frequently carry over to others. Consequently, the 15 pending office actions represent a landscape where individual examiner preferences will likely dictate the pace and outcome of the majority of the applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 4 (24%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (47%) |
| §103 only | 4 (24%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 2 | 68.5% | +34.3% |
| ZHANG, DUAN | 1 | 60.8% | +18.6% |
| DURAN, ARTHUR D | 1 | 15.8% | +23.6% |
| HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 1 | 76.7% | +21.1% |
| EDMONDS, DONALD J | 1 | 39.7% | +35.9% |
| SPOONER, LAMONT M | 1 | 73.6% | +12.0% |
| SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | 1 | 52.5% | +31.5% |
| NGUYEN, TIEN C | 1 | 68.1% | +18.5% |
| NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 1 | 46.6% | +28.2% |
| FU, HAO | 1 | 50.1% | +24.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799689 | PROFILE BASED ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR DISPARATE NETWORK SYSTEMS | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 4d overdue |
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | VIG, NARESH | 16d |
| 19635665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NODAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR FRAUD DETECTION RING | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 19556040 | CIRCUIT-BASED TRANSACTION WITH SECURE-ACCESS PROCESSING | DURAN, ARTHUR D | — |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | — |
| 19281126 | AUTONOMOUS TRACKING OF DISPARATE ASSETS | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | — |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| 19092850 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493619 | CROSS-CHAIN BRIDGE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 83d |
| 19635665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NODAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR FRAUD DETECTION RING | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 19556040 | CIRCUIT-BASED TRANSACTION WITH SECURE-ACCESS PROCESSING | DURAN, ARTHUR D | — |
| 19443928 | IMAGE READING SYSTEMS, METHODS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING ENTITY EXTRACTION, GROUPING AND VALIDATION | HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | — |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | — |
| 19349868 | REMEDIATING HALLUCINATIONS IN LANGUAGE MODELS | SPOONER, LAMONT M | — |
| 19281126 | AUTONOMOUS TRACKING OF DISPARATE ASSETS | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | — |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 2 |
| 3695 | 2 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19635665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NODAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR FRAUD DETECTION RING | ZHANG, DUAN | 3699 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 19556040 | CIRCUIT-BASED TRANSACTION WITH SECURE-ACCESS PROCESSING | DURAN, ARTHUR D | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2026 |
| 19443928 | IMAGE READING SYSTEMS, METHODS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING ENTITY EXTRACTION, GROUPING AND VALIDATION | HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 2671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19349868 | REMEDIATING HALLUCINATIONS IN LANGUAGE MODELS | SPOONER, LAMONT M | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19281126 | AUTONOMOUS TRACKING OF DISPARATE ASSETS | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | — | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19092850 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18930543 | DETECTING AND REMEDIATING ANOMALIES IN INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USING IMAGE PROCESSING | FU, HAO | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18921661 | NETWORK-BASED REAL-TIME ENTERPRISE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18909206 | AUTOMATED PIPELINE FOR TRAINING LANGUAGE MODELS | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 2659 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18799689 | PROFILE BASED ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR DISPARATE NETWORK SYSTEMS | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 3695 | §101§112Other | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18793460 | SMART CONTRACT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH MODEL MERGING | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18733264 | CONTEXTUALLY AUGMENTED TRANSFORMER NEURAL NETWORK | MACKES, KRIS E | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18632950 | GENERATING INTERACTION SEQUENCE DISRUPTION PREDICTIONS | HENRY, MATTHEW D | — | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | VIG, NARESH | 3622 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18493619 | CROSS-CHAIN BRIDGE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
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