Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Toro Company

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LESLIE, MICHAEL S 1 81.0% +14.4%
LANG, MICHAEL DEAN 1 87.0% +5.5%
WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J 1 46.0% +46.6%
FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE 1 55.1% +25.5%
CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT 1 66.7% +51.6%
BROWN, JARED O 1 75.2% +36.7%
ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 1 58.8% +21.7%
BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY 1 69.2% +36.4%

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
19261685 WORK MACHINE WITH POWER OPTIMIZATION LESLIE, MICHAEL S 42d

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
18538289 GROUND WORKING VEHICLE WITH ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE 28d overdue
18632922 ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR HOLDING OR CARRYING ITEMS WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J 23d overdue
18495969 LOG SPLITTING MACHINE BROWN, JARED O 3d overdue
18524310 GROUNDS MAINTENANCE VEHICLE WITH REMOTE OR AUTOMATIC OPERATOR SUSPENSION ADJUSTMENT CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT 22d
18470715 MOWER WITH GANGED REEL CUTTING UNITS HAVING AUTOMATIC CLIP CONTROL IN BOTH STRAIGHT AHEAD MOTION AND IN TURNS ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 28d
19261685 WORK MACHINE WITH POWER OPTIMIZATION LESLIE, MICHAEL S 42d
18237085 ELECTRIC SNOWTHROWER WITH ADAPTIVE MOTOR AND CONTROLS FOR USE WITH SAME BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3745 1
3667 1
3734 1
3662 1
3663 1
3725 1
3668 1
3671 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19261685 WORK MACHINE WITH POWER OPTIMIZATION LESLIE, MICHAEL S 3745 §112 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jul 07, 2025
18977431 AUTONOMOUS MACHINE NAVIGATION WITH OBJECT DETECTION AND 3D POINT CLOUD LANG, MICHAEL DEAN 3667 Other Non-Final OA 43d Pending Dec 11, 2024
18632922 ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR HOLDING OR CARRYING ITEMS WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J 3734 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2024
18538289 GROUND WORKING VEHICLE WITH ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE 3662 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18524310 GROUNDS MAINTENANCE VEHICLE WITH REMOTE OR AUTOMATIC OPERATOR SUSPENSION ADJUSTMENT CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18495969 LOG SPLITTING MACHINE BROWN, JARED O 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18470715 MOWER WITH GANGED REEL CUTTING UNITS HAVING AUTOMATIC CLIP CONTROL IN BOTH STRAIGHT AHEAD MOTION AND IN TURNS ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18237085 ELECTRIC SNOWTHROWER WITH ADAPTIVE MOTOR AND CONTROLS FOR USE WITH SAME BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY 3671 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Aug 23, 2023

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