Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd. has 10 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 10 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. This indicates broad examiner distribution, while the lower art-unit count shows that some technical-group concentration remains.
BATTISTI, DEREK J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a repeated concentration in the supplied record, so examiner-specific leverage may be limited. The art-unit distribution is more useful for organizing recurring technical issues and coordinating claim strategies.
Counsel should maintain matter-specific examiner analysis while grouping related work by the 7 art units. That structure can support consistent technical positions without assuming that a response approach will transfer across all examiners.
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 | 2 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATTISTI, DEREK J | 1 | 51.6% | +35.7% |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 73.8% | +24.6% |
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 59.1% | +29.3% |
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.2% | +26.8% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 1 | 62.4% | +29.0% |
| CRUZ, IRIANA | 1 | 81.8% | +9.5% |
| KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583818 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | CRUZ, IRIANA | 42d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081062 | GUSSETED POUCH | BATTISTI, DEREK J | — |
| 19013417 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DEVICE | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| 18943651 | CAN CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 18908113 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BOTTOMED CANS AND INTERMEDIATE MATERIAL FOR MANUFACTURING BOTTOMED CANS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18349594 | SAFETY VALVE, BATTERY CASE, AND METHOD OF FORMING SAFETY VALVE | KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767208 | STACKABLE METAL CUP | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 147d overdue |
| 19081062 | GUSSETED POUCH | BATTISTI, DEREK J | — |
| 19013417 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DEVICE | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| 19013386 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
| 18943651 | CAN CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 18908113 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BOTTOMED CANS AND INTERMEDIATE MATERIAL FOR MANUFACTURING BOTTOMED CANS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18039432 | SEALANT FILM | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3733 | 2 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081062 | GUSSETED POUCH | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19013417 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DEVICE | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19013386 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18943651 | CAN CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18908113 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BOTTOMED CANS AND INTERMEDIATE MATERIAL FOR MANUFACTURING BOTTOMED CANS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18767208 | STACKABLE METAL CUP | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 3733 | §112 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18583818 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM | CRUZ, IRIANA | 2681 | §102 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18349594 | SAFETY VALVE, BATTERY CASE, AND METHOD OF FORMING SAFETY VALVE | KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL | 1727 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18039432 | SEALANT FILM | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialToyo Seikan Co., Ltd. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 9 examiners.
Derek J Battisti has the most, with 1 of Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
