Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tokai Rika Co., Ltd. has 14 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Each action is assigned to a different examiner, while the matters span 12 art units. The docket therefore has broad examiner distribution but some concentration in technical groupings.
WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner-level cluster is identified, so individual matter review is the primary operational approach. The 12 art units remain useful for grouping related technical issues and allocating prosecution responsibility.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | 1 | 76.9% | +15.2% |
| ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | 1 | 72.2% | +14.3% |
| JOYCE, WILLIAM C | 1 | 69.6% | +16.0% |
| BOOHER, ADAM W | 1 | 75.5% | +9.1% |
| YABUT, DANIEL D | 1 | 56.6% | +27.2% |
| KOTTER, KIP T | 1 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
| VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1 | 54.5% | +24.8% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 66.7% | +43.8% |
| PHAM, TIMOTHY X | 1 | 86.5% | +16.7% |
| LEE, WOO KYUNG | 1 | 82.1% | +12.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806161 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM | PHAM, TIMOTHY X | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19140784 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE | ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | — |
| 19130686 | SHIFT DEVICE | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | — |
| 19061314 | VEHICULAR VIEWING DEVICE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING VEHICULAR VIEWING DEVICE | BOOHER, ADAM W | — |
| 18985997 | WHEEL COVER | KOTTER, KIP T | — |
| 18801628 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | LEE, WOO KYUNG | — |
| 18799100 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS | MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| 18836964 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | RIEGLER, PATRICK F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640777 | COATING STRUCTURE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 30d overdue |
| 19474077 | SHIFT DEVICE | WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | — |
| 19140784 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE | ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | — |
| 19130686 | SHIFT DEVICE | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | — |
| 18881685 | SHIFTING APPARATUS | YABUT, DANIEL D | — |
| 18985997 | WHEEL COVER | KOTTER, KIP T | — |
| 18994284 | VISIBILITY DETERMINING SYSTEM, VISIBILITY DETERMINING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — |
| 18806161 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM | PHAM, TIMOTHY X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 2 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| 2463 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19474077 | SHIFT DEVICE | WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | 3618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19140784 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE | ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19130686 | SHIFT DEVICE | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | 3618 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19061314 | VEHICULAR VIEWING DEVICE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING VEHICULAR VIEWING DEVICE | BOOHER, ADAM W | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18881685 | SHIFTING APPARATUS | YABUT, DANIEL D | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18985997 | WHEEL COVER | KOTTER, KIP T | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18640777 | COATING STRUCTURE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18994284 | VISIBILITY DETERMINING SYSTEM, VISIBILITY DETERMINING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18806161 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM | PHAM, TIMOTHY X | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18801628 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | LEE, WOO KYUNG | 2815 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18799100 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS | MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE | 2463 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18836964 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | RIEGLER, PATRICK F | 2171 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18795377 | CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL SYSTEM | KHAWAR, SAAD | 2412 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18626648 | SWITCH DEVICE | SAEED, AHMED M | 2831 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTokai Rika Co., Ltd. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 14 examiners.
Gregory Robert Weber has the most, with 1 of Tokai Rika Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
