Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merchant & Gould maintains a 100.0 resolved allowance rate pct across 109 career applications for US Bank. This performance occurs within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm achieves these results with an avg office actions per allowance of 2.51, suggesting an efficient path from filing to grant.
Currently, there are 8 pending office actions in the pipeline for this client. The 100.0 resolved allowance rate pct indicates that every application reaching a final resolution has been allowed. The 2.51 avg office actions per allowance provides a baseline for expected prosecution duration for US Bank. With 109 career applications, the firm has established a consistent track record in this sector. Practitioners can view the 8 pending office actions as the next phase in maintaining this standard of performance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (22%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (44%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
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% |
| HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 1 | 76.7% | +21.1% |
| EDMONDS, DONALD J | 1 | 39.7% | +35.9% |
| NGUYEN, TIEN C | 1 | 68.1% | +18.5% |
| FU, HAO | 1 | 50.1% | +24.8% |
| SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 1 | 6.3% | +8.3% |
| SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 1 | 68.2% | +34.0% |
| VIG, NARESH | 1 | 36.4% | +42.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 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 | — |
| 18930543 | DETECTING AND REMEDIATING ANOMALIES IN INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USING IMAGE PROCESSING | FU, HAO | — |
| 18921661 | NETWORK-BASED REAL-TIME ENTERPRISE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | — |
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | VIG, NARESH | 16d |
| 18493619 | CROSS-CHAIN BRIDGE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 83d |
| 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 | — |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| 18930543 | DETECTING AND REMEDIATING ANOMALIES IN INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USING IMAGE PROCESSING | FU, HAO | — |
| 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 | 9 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2671 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19443928 | IMAGE READING SYSTEMS, METHODS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING ENTITY EXTRACTION, GROUPING AND VALIDATION | U.S. Bank National Association | HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 2671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 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 |
| 18930543 | DETECTING AND REMEDIATING ANOMALIES IN INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USING IMAGE PROCESSING | U.S. Bank National Association | FU, HAO | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18921661 | NETWORK-BASED REAL-TIME ENTERPRISE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS | U.S. Bank National Association | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 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 | §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 |
| 18493619 | CROSS-CHAIN BRIDGE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT | U.S. Bank National Association | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
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