Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tokai Riken Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Each of these 2 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, resulting in 2 distinct examiners for the portfolio. Furthermore, these matters are being reviewed in 2 distinct art units, indicating that each application falls under a different specialized technical category within the patent office. This structure means there is no overlap in the personnel or the specific art units handling the company's current prosecution.
The busiest examiner for the company is TULLIA, STEVEN A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners involved, every official is managing an individual case. Practitioners must navigate the separate examiner relationships and 2 distinct art units to resolve the active matters. This decentralized arrangement requires addressing the specific technical nuances of each individual art unit independently to move the 2 pending office actions forward.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TULLIA, STEVEN A | 1 | 74.3% | +19.2% |
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 76.9% | +16.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19477125 | LOCKING DEVICE AND STORAGE APPARATUS | TULLIA, STEVEN A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923854 | LOCKER APPARATUS | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 62d |
| 19477125 | LOCKING DEVICE AND STORAGE APPARATUS | TULLIA, STEVEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19477125 | LOCKING DEVICE AND STORAGE APPARATUS | TULLIA, STEVEN A | 3675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 18923854 | LOCKER APPARATUS | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
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