Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Tokai Rika Co., Ltd.

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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 only4 (50%)
§102 only2 (25%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
4
Business / Other
50% 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
YABUT, DANIEL D 1 56.7% +26.4%
FREEMAN, JOHN D 1 45.8% +7.0%
DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT 1 100.0% +0.0%
PHAM, TIMOTHY X 1 86.3% +16.9%
MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE 1 100.0% +0.0%
RIEGLER, PATRICK F 1 54.6% +32.0%
KHAWAR, SAAD 1 85.6% +7.9%
CRAWLEY, TALIA F 1 48.1% +25.3%

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
18806161 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM PHAM, TIMOTHY X
18799100 CONTROL SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE
18795377 CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL SYSTEM KHAWAR, SAAD

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17917393 LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND MEASUREMENT DEVICE CRAWLEY, TALIA F 14d
18881685 SHIFTING APPARATUS YABUT, DANIEL D
18806161 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM PHAM, TIMOTHY X
18836964 USER INTERFACE DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM RIEGLER, PATRICK F

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3617 1
1787 1
3612 1
3627 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18881685 SHIFTING APPARATUS YABUT, DANIEL D 3617 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 06, 2025
18699974 INJECTION MOLDING METHOD, RESIN COMPOSITION FOR MOLDING, AND MOLDED BODY FREEMAN, JOHN D 1787 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 10, 2024
18446135 RECTIFYING MECHANISM DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT 3612 Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2023
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 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2024
18836964 USER INTERFACE DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM RIEGLER, PATRICK F §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2024
18795377 CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONTROL SYSTEM KHAWAR, SAAD §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 06, 2024
17917393 LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND MEASUREMENT DEVICE CRAWLEY, TALIA F 3627 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Oct 06, 2022

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