Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Weiss & Arons LLP

41 pending office actions • 5 clients • 40 examiners • 32 art units • 0 of 41 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 167 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

41
Total Pending OAs
27
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
0
Due this week
18
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 30 days (18)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (1)

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.

5
Hard (12%)
30
Medium (73%)
6
Easy (15%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (12%)
§103 only29 (71%)
§102 only1 (2%)
§112 only6 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
7% of docket
17
Information Tech
41% of docket
4
Communications
10% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
16
Mechanical / Eng
39% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

410 h
Manual time on pending OAs
82 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
144 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 2 23.3% +33.5%
SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS 1 32.8% +32.3%
CHOI, YUK TING 1 71.5% +36.9%
AGUIAR, JOHNNY B 1 80.3% +19.1%
TIV, BACKHEAN 1 75.4% +20.3%
WALDRON, SCOTT A 1 81.6% +30.7%
JAKOVAC, RYAN J 1 65.7% +17.5%
PATEL, DIVESH 1 52.9% +39.7%
BAIRD, EDWARD J 1 48.7% +67.8%
LEE, MARINA 1 85.5% +18.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18773687 INTERACTIVE CLIENT NOTIFICATIONS AGUIAR, JOHNNY B 27d
18746940 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING CHATBOT INTELLIGENCE THROUGH TRANSFORMER-BASED TABULAR QUESTION-ANSWERING MODEL INTEGRATION WITH CYCLICAL VECTOR DATASET GENERATION WALDRON, SCOTT A 28d
18623157 INTELLIGENT APPARATUS AND SECURE METHOD FOR GENERATING AND ORCHESTRATING SOFTWARE TEST DATA FOR DISTRIBUTED DEVOPS LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI AND HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTIONS LEE, MARINA 28d

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18783496 CHECK EXCEPTION PROCESSING IN THE METAVERSE ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 23d
18640035 PAYMENT NETWORK FRAUDULENT CARD IDENTIFICATION LEVERAGING GEOFENCING FOR MULTI-CARD REMEDIATION PATEL, DIVESH 27d
18585183 SPATIAL COMPUTING DEVICE FOR USE WITH TELEMETRY-BASED USER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS FOR LEVERAGING SUGGESTIVE ACTION MECHANISMS CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP 30d
18636415 DYNAMIC PAYMENT QUICK RESPONSE ("QR") CODES BAIRD, EDWARD J 34d
18401782 ADAPTIVE NETWORK ROUTING PROTOCOLS ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 40d
18616067 USER INTERFACE FOR SPEED COMMUNICATIONS DUCK, BRANDON M 47d
18586848 PROOF-OF-TRUST BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRYPTO-PLATFORM PAYMENT GATEWAY ROSEN, ELIZABETH H

Interview Candidates (11)

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
19043589 DYNAMIC RESPONSE ENGINE CHOI, YUK TING 30d overdue
18748310 THINK TWICE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION OUTPUT FILTER GUARD TIV, BACKHEAN 9d
18783496 CHECK EXCEPTION PROCESSING IN THE METAVERSE ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 23d
19341062 DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING RECAPTURE OF PROSTHTIC HEART VALVE DEVICE WITH STENT FRAME HAVING VALVE SUPPORT WITH INWARDLY STENT CELLS SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS 27d
18773687 INTERACTIVE CLIENT NOTIFICATIONS AGUIAR, JOHNNY B 27d
18640035 PAYMENT NETWORK FRAUDULENT CARD IDENTIFICATION LEVERAGING GEOFENCING FOR MULTI-CARD REMEDIATION PATEL, DIVESH 27d
18746940 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING CHATBOT INTELLIGENCE THROUGH TRANSFORMER-BASED TABULAR QUESTION-ANSWERING MODEL INTEGRATION WITH CYCLICAL VECTOR DATASET GENERATION WALDRON, SCOTT A 28d
18623157 INTELLIGENT APPARATUS AND SECURE METHOD FOR GENERATING AND ORCHESTRATING SOFTWARE TEST DATA FOR DISTRIBUTED DEVOPS LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI AND HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTIONS LEE, MARINA 28d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36925
37743
36933
24472
21641
24591
21521
24451
36961
21921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19341062 DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING RECAPTURE OF PROSTHTIC HEART VALVE DEVICE WITH STENT FRAME HAVING VALVE SUPPORT WITH INWARDLY STENT CELLS 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS 3774 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Sep 26, 2025
19043589 DYNAMIC RESPONSE ENGINE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION CHOI, YUK TING 2164 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2025
18783496 CHECK EXCEPTION PROCESSING IN THE METAVERSE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §102 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 25, 2024
18773687 INTERACTIVE CLIENT NOTIFICATIONS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION AGUIAR, JOHNNY B 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 16, 2024
18748310 THINK TWICE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION OUTPUT FILTER GUARD BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION TIV, BACKHEAN 2459 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18746940 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING CHATBOT INTELLIGENCE THROUGH TRANSFORMER-BASED TABULAR QUESTION-ANSWERING MODEL INTEGRATION WITH CYCLICAL VECTOR DATASET GENERATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION WALDRON, SCOTT A 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18672169 QUANTUM COMPUTING ELASTIC RULE ENGINE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending May 23, 2024
18640035 PAYMENT NETWORK FRAUDULENT CARD IDENTIFICATION LEVERAGING GEOFENCING FOR MULTI-CARD REMEDIATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PATEL, DIVESH 3696 §101 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 19, 2024
18636415 DYNAMIC PAYMENT QUICK RESPONSE ("QR") CODES BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION BAIRD, EDWARD J 3692 §101 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18623157 INTELLIGENT APPARATUS AND SECURE METHOD FOR GENERATING AND ORCHESTRATING SOFTWARE TEST DATA FOR DISTRIBUTED DEVOPS LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI AND HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTIONS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION LEE, MARINA 2192 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 01, 2024
18616067 USER INTERFACE FOR SPEED COMMUNICATIONS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION DUCK, BRANDON M 3693 §101 Final Rejection 47d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18586848 PROOF-OF-TRUST BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRYPTO-PLATFORM PAYMENT GATEWAY BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ROSEN, ELIZABETH H 3693 §101 Final Rejection Pending Feb 26, 2024
18585183 SPATIAL COMPUTING DEVICE FOR USE WITH TELEMETRY-BASED USER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS FOR LEVERAGING SUGGESTIVE ACTION MECHANISMS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP 2674 §101 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18401782 ADAPTIVE NETWORK ROUTING PROTOCOLS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §112 Final Rejection 40d Pending Jan 02, 2024
18510773 FRAUD PREVENTION PARALLEL METAVERSE SYSTEM BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 3697 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18226332 VIDEO QR CODE AUTHENTICATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18225197 VERIFYING HUMAN INTERACTION THROUGH DIGITAL TOKENS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION DOLLY, KENDALL LYNN 2436 §112 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18221469 CLOUD GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT ENGINE LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ZHANG, SHIRLEY X 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18214028 LED LIGHTING METHODS AND APPARATUS Wangs Alliance Corporation APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 26, 2023
18211504 PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2023
18208912 VOICE AI CONTAINER BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION RILEY, MARCUS T 2654 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18199467 ONE TIME DEBIT CARD FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY TRANSFER IN THE METAVERSE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION TURK, BROCK E 3692 §103 Final Rejection 65d Pending May 19, 2023
18198985 DECENTRALIZED DATA MAP FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A DATA ACCESSOR BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 18, 2023
18196496 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AMMONIA ESCAPE IN AMMONIA-BASED DECARBONIZATION SYSTEM Jiangnan Environmental Protection Group Inc. GITMAN, GABRIEL E 1772 §112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending May 12, 2023
18195986 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA FILTERING BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ALLEN, BRITTANY N 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18138844 NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN (NFT) BASED INTELLIGENT DOCUMENT PROTOCOLS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION MOLES, JAMES P 2494 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 25, 2023
18135819 SIMPLICIAL HUMAN-INSPIRED PATTERN IDENTIFICATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION TRAN, DANIEL DUC 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 18, 2023
18129148 HIGH-SECURITY TOGGLE SYSTEM FOR PAYMENT INSTRUMENT DISPLAY BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PHAN, NICHOLAS K 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Mar 31, 2023
18121728 BEVERAGE BREWING Stack Street Coffee LLC LACHICA, ERICSON M 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
18110461 REAL-TIME CROSS-CHANNEL VERIFICATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ 3693 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18100738 DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING PROLAPSE OF NATIVE CARDIAC VALVE LEAFLETS 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 3774 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jan 24, 2023
18100666 D(DIGITAL) + B(BITCOIN) WALLET BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION FU, HAO 3695 §103 Final Rejection 140d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2023
18097606 TOOL DIFFERENTIATOR BETWEEN FRAUD AND STRUGGLING CUSTOMERS IN REAL TIME BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION POE, KEVIN T 3692 §112 Final Rejection 16d Pending Jan 17, 2023
18074674 CHATBOT DEFLECTION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION HASHEM, LISA 2692 §112 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Dec 05, 2022
17993013 DUAL-PIPELINE UTTERANCE OUTPUT CONSTRUCT BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2022
17978332 DYNAMIC ENTITLEMENT MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17972637 TRANSACTION CLASSIFYING BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PHAM, KHANH B 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 25, 2022
17860145 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEAMLESSLY UPDATING AND OPTIMIZING A DIGITAL SYSTEM BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION HOCKER, JOHN PAUL 2189 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17853257 ORCHESTRATION LAYER FOR A MULTI-TIER ARCHITECTURE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 3626 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 29, 2022
17737253 DATA SECUREMENT LEVERAGING SECURE QR CODE SCANNER BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD 2432 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending May 05, 2022
17709945 INTEGRATED AMMONIA-BASED DESULFURIZATION AND DECARBONIZATION APPARATUS AND METHOD Jiangnan Environmental Protection Group Inc. PHAN, ANNETTE HOANG-ANH 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Mar 31, 2022

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