Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Toray Industries, Inc.

61 pending office actions • 36 art units • 54 examiners • 0 of 61 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 121 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

61
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 59 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

26
Overdue
2
Due this week
19
Due this month
9
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 59 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (26)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (19)Due ≤ 60 days (9)Due later (3)

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.

1
Hard (2%)
51
Medium (84%)
5
Easy (8%)
4
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only48 (79%)
§102 only3 (5%)
§112 only5 (8%)
No statute on record4 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

54
Life Sciences
89% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

610 h
Manual time on pending OAs
122 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
214 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WORRELL, KEVIN 3 11.7% -6.0%
PIERCE, JEREMY R 2 56.5% +43.5%
STEELE, JENNIFER A 2 48.4% +33.5%
CHOI, PETER Y 2 20.9% +33.6%
AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN 2 85.7% +0.0%
LIU, ZHEN 2 42.0% +45.8%
HUANG, GRACE 1 55.8% +58.3%
MCGRATH, ERIN E 1 59.4% +31.1%
VISCONTI, GERALDINA 1 86.6% +1.4%
MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 1 26.6% +26.9%

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
17776542 FIBER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN 70d overdue
18035801 THERMOSETTING EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, MOLDED ARTICLE OF SAME, FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL, MOLDING MATERIAL FOR FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN 56d overdue
18849341 LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYESTER RESIN, LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED ARTICLE FORMED THEREFROM VISCONTI, GERALDINA 49d

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18267798 CONJUGATE FIBER AND MULTIFILAMENT CHOI, PETER Y 79d overdue
18023888 SEA-ISLAND-TYPE COMPOSITE FIBER, AND FIBER PRODUCT INCLUDING SEA-ISLAND-TYPE COMPOSITE FIBER WORRELL, KEVIN 51d overdue
18550912 WOVEN FABRIC FOR AIRBAGS CHOI, PETER Y 36d overdue
18847809 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 28d
18025298 POLYAMIDE CORE-SHEATH COMPOSITE FIBER AND FABRIC WORRELL, KEVIN 34d
18013981 WOVEN/KNITTED FABRIC AND GARMENT CONTAINING SAME WORRELL, KEVIN 34d

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18033207 RESIN COMPOSITION, NONWOVEN FABRIC AND TEXTILE PRODUCT OBTAINED USING SAME, SEPARATOR FOR POWER STORAGE ELEMENT, SECONDARY BATTERY, AND ELECTRIC DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITOR PIERCE, JEREMY R 120d overdue
18267798 CONJUGATE FIBER AND MULTIFILAMENT CHOI, PETER Y 79d overdue
18850650 BALLOON CATHETER AND BALLOON CATHETER SYSTEM MCGRATH, ERIN E 59d overdue
18550912 WOVEN FABRIC FOR AIRBAGS CHOI, PETER Y 36d overdue
18993640 FALSE-TWIST TEXTURED YARN, AND CLOTHES, WOVEN KNITTED PRODUCT, TWIST YARN, AND COMPOSITE FALSE-TWIST TEXTURED YARN INCLUDING SAME HUANG, GRACE 15d overdue
18692637 FIBER LAMINATED STRUCTURE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR STEELE, JENNIFER A 11d overdue
17628739 FIBER-REINFORCED POLYARYLENE SULFIDE COPOLYMER COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND MOLDED ARTICLE INCLUDING SAME LIU, ZHEN 27d
18847809 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1789 9
1786 4
1787 3
1762 3
1767 3
3732 2
1737 2
1717 2
1744 2
1781 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18993640 FALSE-TWIST TEXTURED YARN, AND CLOTHES, WOVEN KNITTED PRODUCT, TWIST YARN, AND COMPOSITE FALSE-TWIST TEXTURED YARN INCLUDING SAME HUANG, GRACE 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2025
18850650 BALLOON CATHETER AND BALLOON CATHETER SYSTEM MCGRATH, ERIN E 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18849341 LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYESTER RESIN, LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED ARTICLE FORMED THEREFROM VISCONTI, GERALDINA 1737 §102 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18847809 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 3685 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 17, 2024
18842187 COATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WEB WITH COATING FILM TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T 1717 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Aug 28, 2024
18840548 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRET MELT BLOWN NONWOVEN FABRIC BARTLETT, VICTORIA 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 22, 2024
18840244 AIRFLOW CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STRETCHED FILM WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2024
18724241 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AROMATIC HYDROCARBON, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLYMER, AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING AROMATIC HYDROCARBON VASISTH, VISHAL V 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18712820 COMPOSITE FIBER, MULTIFILAMENT, AND FIBER PRODUCT PIERCE, JEREMY R 1789 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 23, 2024
18712049 ECCENTRIC CORE-SHEATH COMPOSITE FALSE TWISTED YARN AND WOVEN/KNITTED FABRIC USING SAME MATZEK, MATTHEW D 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 21, 2024
18692968 PREPREG, FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE, AND INTEGRATED MOLDED ARTICLE VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 18, 2024
18692637 FIBER LAMINATED STRUCTURE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR STEELE, JENNIFER A 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2024
18691284 POLYETHYLENE FILM ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18685976 LAMINATED FILM SHAH, SAMIR 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18681223 POLYAMIDE-46 MULTIFILAMENT AND SEWING THREAD FOR AIRBAG NISULA, CHRISTINE XU 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Feb 05, 2024
18580341 INTEGRATED MOLDED BODY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HOUSING TATESURE, VINCENT 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jan 18, 2024
18024323 BIOELECTRODE MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 3794 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18288249 HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1773 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18285500 BLOOD TREATMENT MATERIAL ALI, WAQAAS A 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2023
18550912 WOVEN FABRIC FOR AIRBAGS CHOI, PETER Y 1786 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18550307 PLATED MOLDING, METHOD OF PRODUCING PLATED MOLDING, AND HOUSING COMPONENT SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18279614 METHOD FOR DETECTING MICRORNA IN BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE, COMPOSITION OF HYDROCHLORIDE OF NEUTRAL AMINO ACID, AND CONTAINER LEITH, NANCY J 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Aug 31, 2023
18279101 ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME TAVARES-CROCKETT, ULA CORINNA 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Aug 28, 2023
18278677 COATED MEDICAL DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE 1616 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18278267 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING 3-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OBJECT USING RESIN GRANULAR MATERIAL, 3-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OBJECT AND RESIN GRANULAR MATERIAL CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 22, 2023
18275456 EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL, FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL WALTERS JR, ROBERT S 1717 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 02, 2023
18274026 FABRIC, FABRIC BODY AND SEAT STEELE, JENNIFER A 1789 §112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18271493 ALLERGEN-IMMOBILIZED CARRIER AND METHOD OF DETECTING ALLERGEN-SPECIFIC ANTIBODY GIERE, REBECCA M 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18033207 RESIN COMPOSITION, NONWOVEN FABRIC AND TEXTILE PRODUCT OBTAINED USING SAME, SEPARATOR FOR POWER STORAGE ELEMENT, SECONDARY BATTERY, AND ELECTRIC DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITOR PIERCE, JEREMY R 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18270513 NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY PAPANDRIA, AIDAN LACHLAN 1723 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18267798 CONJUGATE FIBER AND MULTIFILAMENT CHOI, PETER Y 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18267178 MULTILAYER FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME CHEN, VIVIAN 1787 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18038932 FIBER-REINFORCED PULTRUSION-MOLDED ARTICLE HALL, DEVE V. 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
18035801 THERMOSETTING EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION, MOLDED ARTICLE OF SAME, FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL, MOLDING MATERIAL FOR FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18034102 GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICROORGANISM FOR PRODUCING 3-HYDROXYADIPIC ACID AND/OR ALPHA-HYDROMUCONIC ACID, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CHEMICAL PRODUCT MORGAN, BAILEY MICHELLE 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18025298 POLYAMIDE CORE-SHEATH COMPOSITE FIBER AND FABRIC WORRELL, KEVIN 1789 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18023888 SEA-ISLAND-TYPE COMPOSITE FIBER, AND FIBER PRODUCT INCLUDING SEA-ISLAND-TYPE COMPOSITE FIBER WORRELL, KEVIN 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
18042309 PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PRINTING PLATE USING SAID PRECURSOR ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N 1737 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 21, 2023
18013981 WOVEN/KNITTED FABRIC AND GARMENT CONTAINING SAME WORRELL, KEVIN 1789 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 30, 2022
18010837 TRAVELING ASSISTANCE TOOL FOR WHEELCHAIR ADDIE, RAYMOND W 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2022
17928975 FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC, INTEGRALLY MOLDED PRODUCT, AND PREPREG HEINCER, LIAM J 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2022
17927550 CERIUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLE, DISPERSION SOLUTION CONTAINING CERIUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLE, OXIDANT, ANTIVIRUS AGENT, AND ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2022
18046109 PLATE, SOLE, SHOE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PLATE NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 3732 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Oct 12, 2022
17913187 POLY(ARYLENE SULFIDE) AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR LISTVOYB, GREGORY 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Sep 21, 2022
17913294 RESIN FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, RESIN COMPOSITION, DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME FREEMAN, JOHN D 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2022
17910544 MEDICAMENT FOR TREATMENT AND/OR PREVENTION OF CANCER GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 09, 2022
17796888 COATING AGENT AND MEDICAL MATERIAL USING SAME WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES 1616 Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2022
17793112 ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODES AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING SAME REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1785 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jul 15, 2022
17786615 PREPREG, MOLDED ARTICLE, AND INTEGRALLY MOLDED ARTICLE BROOKS, KREGG T 1764 §112 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 17, 2022
17781778 DRUG THAT PREVENTS DIALYSIS SHIFT OR RENAL DEATH LEE, ANDREW P 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2022
17776542 FIBER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN 1762 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending May 12, 2022
17773639 CARBON FIBER TAPE MATERIAL, AND REINFORCING FIBER LAMINATE AND MOLDED BODY PRODUCED WITH THE SAME IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1789 §103 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending May 02, 2022
17770102 IN VIVO TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN 3794 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2022
17637912 RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED ARTICLE BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 24, 2022
17628739 FIBER-REINFORCED POLYARYLENE SULFIDE COPOLYMER COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND MOLDED ARTICLE INCLUDING SAME LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 20, 2022
17627215 POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED PRODUCT THEREOF LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Jan 14, 2022
17609841 GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICROORGANISM FOR PRODUCING 3-HYDROXYHEXANEDIOIC ACID, (E)-HEX-2-ENEDIOIC ACID AND/OR HEXANEDIOIC ACID, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAID CHEMICALS SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2021
17606266 DIALYSIS SOLUTION REGENERATION METHOD ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 25, 2021
17442231 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MEDICAL DEVICE PROSSER, ALISSA J 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 23, 2021
17177396 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CANCERS EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA 1643 §112 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2021
16089918 METHOD OF PRODUCING SUGAR LIQUID VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 28, 2018

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