Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd. maintains 9 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct examiners, indicating a broad spread of individual scrutiny for the portfolio. Despite the high number of examiners, the work is contained within 4 distinct art units, suggesting some thematic consistency in the underlying technologies.
BATTISTI, DEREK J is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are currently handling only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner dominates the company's current prosecution pipeline. Practitioners can expect to interact with a diverse group of examiners while navigating a relatively small number of art units. This requires adapting to 9 different examiner styles while operating within the technical frameworks of 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 | 51.4% | +36.0% |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 74.1% | +24.5% |
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.1% | +26.7% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 1 | 62.2% | +28.8% |
| VINEIS, FRANK J | 1 | 39.9% | +44.8% |
| CRUZ, IRIANA | 1 | 81.8% | +9.5% |
| KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 50.9% | +56.0% |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18114421 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAN BODY AND MANUFACTURING LINE OF THE SAME | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 157d overdue |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18114421 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAN BODY AND MANUFACTURING LINE OF THE SAME | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 157d overdue |
| 18767208 | STACKABLE METAL CUP | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 147d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18740908 | LAMINATE | VINEIS, FRANK J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 2 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081062 | GUSSETED POUCH | BATTISTI, DEREK J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19013417 | CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DEVICE | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — | §102§112 | 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 | — | §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 |
| 18740908 | LAMINATE | VINEIS, FRANK J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 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 |
| 18114421 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAN BODY AND MANUFACTURING LINE OF THE SAME | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 3725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 157d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
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