Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (56%)
§102 only4 (44%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
78% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 1 78.1% +16.0%
CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER 1 61.8% +28.7%
HELVEY, PETER N. 1 54.5% +18.7%
CRUZ, IRIANA 1 81.4% +9.5%
LIEUWEN, CODY J 1 59.5% +46.4%
GUTHRIE, TERESA A 1 69.0% +35.1%
TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L 1 50.9% +56.0%
GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 1 67.0% +34.8%
KIM, BRYAN 1 28.7% +36.7%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18583818 CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM CRUZ, IRIANA 42d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17719803 MICROWAVABLE POUCH KIM, BRYAN 27d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
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
18123039 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONTAINER AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CONTAINER GUTHRIE, TERESA A 91d overdue
18352235 DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND DISCHARGE METHOD LIEUWEN, CODY J 60d overdue
18905314 BOTTOMED METAL CYLINDER TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 29d overdue
17787932 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 17d overdue
17719803 MICROWAVABLE POUCH KIM, BRYAN 27d
18667908 SPOUT POUCH HELVEY, PETER N. 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3725 3
3752 2
3733 1
3734 1
2681 1
1792 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18905314 BOTTOMED METAL CYLINDER TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 3725 §102 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2024
18767208 STACKABLE METAL CUP CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER 3733 §103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18667908 SPOUT POUCH HELVEY, PETER N. 3734 §102 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 17, 2024
18583818 CAN MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEM CRUZ, IRIANA 2681 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2024
18352235 DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND DISCHARGE METHOD LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18123039 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONTAINER AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CONTAINER GUTHRIE, TERESA A 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18114421 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAN BODY AND MANUFACTURING LINE OF THE SAME TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L 3725 §102 Non-Final OA 157d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2023
17787932 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2022
17719803 MICROWAVABLE POUCH KIM, BRYAN 1792 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 13, 2022

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