Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
MERCHANT & GOULD - US Bank focuses on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and has handled 115 career applications. Its profile lists 6 pending office actions and a 100.0% resolved allowance rate.
The average is 2.49 office actions per allowance. The resolved matters all reached allowance in the recorded profile, while the response average indicates that successful prosecution still involved more than an initial examination exchange.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (60%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDMONDS, DONALD J | 1 | 39.5% | +35.3% |
| NGUYEN, TIEN C | 1 | 68.1% | +19.0% |
| SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 1 | 68.5% | +33.1% |
| BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.5% | +34.3% |
| VIG, NARESH | 1 | 36.6% | +43.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | VIG, NARESH | 16d |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | — |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| 18909206 | AUTOMATED PIPELINE FOR TRAINING LANGUAGE MODELS | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | VIG, NARESH | 16d |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | — |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| 18909206 | AUTOMATED PIPELINE FOR TRAINING LANGUAGE MODELS | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | — |
| 18793460 | SMART CONTRACT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH MODEL MERGING | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| U.S. Bank | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | U.S. Bank National Association | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | U.S. Bank National Association | NGUYEN, TIEN C | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 18909206 | AUTOMATED PIPELINE FOR TRAINING LANGUAGE MODELS | U.S. Bank National Association | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 2659 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18793460 | SMART CONTRACT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH MODEL MERGING | U.S. Bank National Association | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 2191 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | U.S. Bank National Association | VIG, NARESH | 3622 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial100.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Merchant & Gould - US Bank were allowed, across 115 applications in USPTO records.
2.49 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.
