Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tokai Rika Co., Ltd. has 16 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct art units, showing a moderate level of technical variety. The prosecution involves 16 distinct examiners, which means that every single pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This ratio of 16 distinct examiners for 16 pending office actions indicates that there is no concentration of work under any single official.
WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT is the busiest examiner, though they only have 1 pending office action, which is the same as every other examiner in the portfolio. The 9 distinct art units suggest that the company 16 pending office actions are technically diverse, requiring a broad understanding of different mechanical and transportation classifications. Managing 16 pending office actions with 16 distinct examiners across 9 art units requires the company to be prepared for a range of individual perspectives. Practitioners should ensure that the prosecution of these 16 actions remains consistent despite the lack of examiner overlap.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (40%) |
| §102 only | 3 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 | 76.7% | +15.2% |
| MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 1 | 66.3% | +12.8% |
| MATT, MARNIE A | 1 | 88.5% | +7.2% |
| ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | 1 | 72.1% | +14.5% |
| YABUT, DANIEL D | 1 | 56.7% | +26.9% |
| RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 1 | 76.3% | +12.0% |
| VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1 | 54.5% | +24.8% |
| FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 45.9% | +6.8% |
| DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | 1 | 87.5% | +14.3% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 65.0% | +46.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19153739 | VEHICLE VISUAL RECOGNITION DEVICE | MATT, MARNIE A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699974 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD, RESIN COMPOSITION FOR MOLDING, AND MOLDED BODY | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 14d |
| 19140784 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE | ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | — |
| 18881511 | SHIFTING APPARATUS | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| 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 | — |
| 19473670 | SHIFT DEVICE | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | — |
| 19140784 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE | ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | — |
| 18881685 | SHIFTING APPARATUS | YABUT, DANIEL D | — |
| 18881511 | SHIFTING APPARATUS | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| 18446135 | RECTIFYING MECHANISM | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | — |
| 18994284 | VISIBILITY DETERMINING SYSTEM, VISIBILITY DETERMINING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 3 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 2831 | 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 |
| 19473670 | SHIFT DEVICE | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19153739 | VEHICLE VISUAL RECOGNITION DEVICE | MATT, MARNIE A | 2485 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19140784 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE | ROJAS CADIMA, OMAR | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 18881685 | SHIFTING APPARATUS | YABUT, DANIEL D | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18881511 | SHIFTING APPARATUS | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 3618 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18640777 | COATING STRUCTURE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18699974 | INJECTION MOLDING METHOD, RESIN COMPOSITION FOR MOLDING, AND MOLDED BODY | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18446135 | RECTIFYING MECHANISM | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | 3612 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18994284 | VISIBILITY DETERMINING SYSTEM, VISIBILITY DETERMINING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18806161 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM | PHAM, TIMOTHY X | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18799100 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS | MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18836964 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | RIEGLER, PATRICK F | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18795377 | CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL SYSTEM | KHAWAR, SAAD | — | §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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