Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Weiss & Arons LLP

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

54 pending office actions • 3 clients • 52 examiners • 35 art units • 0 of 54 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Weiss & Arons LLP handles patent prosecution in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, with 2100 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 91.78 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 2.94 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 48 pending office actions.

The 2100 career applications and 91.78 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 2.94 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 48 pending office actions, the firm maintains its presence in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. This data set reflects the firm's documented experience and current workload within the patent office. The recorded metrics provide a baseline for procedural duration in this specific field. Practitioners can evaluate the intensity of examiner interaction and resource requirements based on these historical figures. These statistics offer a view of the firm's prosecution profile.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=2100 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.8%
Allowance Rate
n=2100
+0.73σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2100
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=1551
-0.48σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1551
821 days
Time to Allowance
n=1551
-6.1pp
Interview Lift
n=2100
34.4%
RCE Rate
n=2100
1.3%
Appeal Rate
n=2100

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

77.8%
§101 Overcome
n=536
87.0%
§102 Overcome
n=422
82.6%
§103 Overcome
n=986
80.4%
§112 Overcome
n=662

Specialization & Scale

G06Q, G06F, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
43%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2100
4
Practitioners
n=2100
525.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=2100

Portfolio Summary

54
Total Pending OAs
25
Non-Final OAs
29
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

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.

37
Hard (69%)
14
Medium (26%)
3
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only6 (11%)
§101 + other22 (41%)
§103 only14 (26%)
§112 only3 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
19
Information Tech
35% of docket
3
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
24
Mechanical / Eng
44% of docket
8
Business / Other
15% 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.

540 h
Manual time on pending OAs
108 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
189 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 2 16.0% +0.0%
ROSEN, ELIZABETH H 2 45.7% +49.6%
RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 1 69.5% +37.5%
ABDULLAHI, ABDULLAHI MOHAMED 1 — —
HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER 1 64.0% +52.8%
IMMANUEL, ILSE I 1 27.2% +27.5%
POE, KEVIN T 1 39.4% +16.4%
KANERVO, VIRPI H 1 47.5% +47.6%
SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 1 6.3% +8.3%
BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18950552 CONFIGURABLE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM —

Hard Cases (38)

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
18110461 REAL-TIME CROSS-CHANNEL VERIFICATION APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ 19d overdue
18211504 PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU 16d overdue
18135819 SIMPLICIAL HUMAN-INSPIRED PATTERN IDENTIFICATION TRAN, DANIEL DUC 8d
18510773 FRAUD PREVENTION PARALLEL METAVERSE SYSTEM JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 26d
18585183 SPATIAL COMPUTING DEVICE FOR USE WITH TELEMETRY-BASED USER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS FOR LEVERAGING SUGGESTIVE ACTION MECHANISMS CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP 30d
17853257 ORCHESTRATION LAYER FOR A MULTI-TIER ARCHITECTURE RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 33d
18401782 ADAPTIVE NETWORK ROUTING PROTOCOLS ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 40d
18616067 USER INTERFACE FOR SPEED COMMUNICATIONS DUCK, BRANDON M 47d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18735694 Untitled RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN —
19286430 BANKING AT AN ATM USING A MOBILE DEVICE HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER —
19183990 CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE PLATFORM IMMANUEL, ILSE I —
18966887 TEMPLATE AUTOMATION AND MANAGEMENT POE, KEVIN T —
18965052 SMART CONTRACT GENERATOR KANERVO, VIRPI H —
18914409 DECENTRALIZED E-CASH PAYMENTS THROUGH NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS ROSEN, ELIZABETH H —
18586848 PROOF-OF-TRUST BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRYPTO-PLATFORM PAYMENT GATEWAY ROSEN, ELIZABETH H —

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36935
37744
24342
36922
36242
24372
21631
36991
36911
26891

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18735694 Untitled BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2163 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending
18901117 Untitled BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ABDULLAHI, ABDULLAHI MOHAMED 2434 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending
19443207 STENT FEATURES AND METHODS TO AID WITH APPOSITION AND ALIGNMENT TO NATIVE ANATOMY, MITIGATION OF PARAVALVULAR LEAK AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 3774 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 08, 2026
19286430 BANKING AT AN ATM USING A MOBILE DEVICE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2025
19183990 CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE PLATFORM BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION IMMANUEL, ILSE I 3699 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 21, 2025
18966887 TEMPLATE AUTOMATION AND MANAGEMENT BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION POE, KEVIN T 3692 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 03, 2024
18965052 SMART CONTRACT GENERATOR BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION KANERVO, VIRPI H 3691 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18953462 TRUTH-BASED, SYNTHETIC, PARTIAL-ENTITY KNOWLEDGE SOURCING AND TRADEABLE ASSET CREATION BASED THEREON BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 3624 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18950552 CONFIGURABLE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 2434 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18929706 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT-BASED BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ALMAGHAYREH, KHALID M 2689 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 29, 2024
18915617 ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE-DIENE TERPOLYMER ("EPDM") ROOF SHINGLES Precision Materials Group Holdings, LLC ADAMOS, THEODORE V 3642 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 15, 2024
18914409 DECENTRALIZED E-CASH PAYMENTS THROUGH NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ROSEN, ELIZABETH H 3693 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 14, 2024
18900183 Anchored Leaflet Device And Methods For Transcatheter Valve Repair 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. WHITE, KIA XIONG §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18894122 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORTING IMAGE AND DOCUMENT ENHANCEMENTS FOR TRAINING MODELS USING QUANTUM COMPUTING BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION SHUI, MING 2663 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 24, 2024
18820413 SPATIAL COMPUTING SOURCE CODE DEVELOPMENT SECURITY SYSTEM BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION LANIER, BENJAMIN E 2437 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18813202 SELF-CORRECTING BOT BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION RIVERA, ANIBAL §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 23, 2024
18792801 INTELLIGENT METHOD AND APPARATUS TO AUGMENT MODERATOR IN LIVE SESSION LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 02, 2024
18748310 THINK TWICE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION OUTPUT FILTER GUARD BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION TIV, BACKHEAN 2459 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18679803 INTELLIGENT SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DERIVE A NORMALIZED CONSENT PROTOCOL FOR HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED LEDGER LEVERAGING NEURO-SYMBOLIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION VUONG, CAO DANG 2153 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 31, 2024
18678661 QUANTUM COMMUNICATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION DHILLON, PUNEET S §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2024
18672169 QUANTUM COMPUTING ELASTIC RULE ENGINE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending May 23, 2024
18637044 VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VIRTUAL ASSISTANT INTEGRATION FOR ADDRESSING INQUIRIES FROM HEARING IMPAIRED CUSTOMERS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION FRISBY, KESHA 3715 §101§103Other Final Rejection — Pending Apr 16, 2024
18621239 AMALGAMATED QUICK RESPONSE ("QR")-POWERED, NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN ("NFT")-SCORING-BASED PROTEGE MONEY TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION BUI, TOAN D. 3693 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2024
18616067 USER INTERFACE FOR SPEED COMMUNICATIONS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION DUCK, BRANDON M 3693 §101§112 Final Rejection 47d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18613235 VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VIRTUAL ASSISTANT INTEGRATION FOR ADDRESSING INQUIRIES FROM HEARING IMPAIRED CUSTOMERS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION SEOH, MINNAH L 3618 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 22, 2024
18610771 ENTITY PERSONA GENERATED WITH QUANTUM KEYS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION JIANG, HAIMEI §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 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§103§112 Final Rejection 30d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18427666 RE-ENGINEERING DATA TO ENABLE AI TO EXCEED ITS CURRENT LIMITS BY UTILIZING QUANTUM ENGINEERING BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PHUNG, STEVEN HUYNH §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 30, 2024
18401782 ADAPTIVE NETWORK ROUTING PROTOCOLS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Jan 02, 2024
18523123 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO TOKENIZE AND CATEGORIZE DATA TRANSACTIONS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION STORK, KYLE R §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 29, 2023
18510773 FRAUD PREVENTION PARALLEL METAVERSE SYSTEM BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 3697 §101§103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18505324 STENT FEATURES AND METHODS TO AID WITH APPOSITION AND ALIGNMENT TO NATIVE ANATOMY, MITIGATION OF PARAVALVULAR LEAK AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 09, 2023
18385472 TESSELLATED SIMPLEXED PATTERN IDENTIFICATION PROCESSOR BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2023
18376789 OWNER-MANAGED PASSWORD BASED FILE ACCESS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 04, 2023
18237936 RISK SCORING OF EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATIONS USING UNAUTHORIZED COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION BOYCE, ANDRE D 3623 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 25, 2023
18225197 VERIFYING HUMAN INTERACTION THROUGH DIGITAL TOKENS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION DOLLY, KENDALL LYNN 2436 §112 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18211504 PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU 3774 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2023
18208411 ENGINE FOR RECONCILING NEURAL NETWORK MIGRATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION TRAN, TRAVIS VIET 2191 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 12, 2023
18202997 EDGE DATA FILTER BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD 2431 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 29, 2023
18200881 APPLICATION PORTAL BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION SEYE, ABDOU K 2198 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 23, 2023
18200691 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING BLOOD FLOW 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. FLORES, ADRIAN 3774 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2023
18199431 SELF-EVOLVING VIRTUAL TWINS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION CHEEMA, NOOR FATIMA 2142 §101§103 Final Rejection — 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 Final Rejection 16d Pending May 18, 2023
18144972 TEMPO RADIX DLT BASED PAYMENT WATCH CUSTOMER AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PATEL, DIVESH 3696 §101 Final Rejection — Pending May 09, 2023
18135819 SIMPLICIAL HUMAN-INSPIRED PATTERN IDENTIFICATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION TRAN, DANIEL DUC 2147 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 8d Pending Apr 18, 2023
18126521 CORRESPONDENCE DATA HUB BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 27, 2023
18110461 REAL-TIME CROSS-CHANNEL VERIFICATION BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ 3693 §101§103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18077353 DIGITAL TWINNING DATA SIMULATOR BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION JOHANSEN, JOHN E 2187 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 08, 2022
17975699 REFLEXIVELY-ROUTED TRANSACTIONS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION OYEBISI, OJO O 3695 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 28, 2022
17972637 TRANSACTION CLASSIFYING BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION PHAM, KHANH B 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 25, 2022
17883784 AI-BASED SELECTION USING CASCADED MODEL EXPLANATIONS BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION ZHEN, LI B 2121 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 09, 2022
17860145 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEAMLESSLY UPDATING AND OPTIMIZING A DIGITAL SYSTEM BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION HOCKER, JOHN PAUL 2189 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2022
17853257 ORCHESTRATION LAYER FOR A MULTI-TIER ARCHITECTURE BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 3626 §101§103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 29, 2022

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