Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FREEMAN, JOHN D 1 45.9% +7.1%
PARKER, LAURA EBERT 1 57.3% +30.7%
MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER 1 78.8% +49.6%
LAN, YAN 1 62.9% +22.2%
LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 1 77.8% +23.7%
RICE, STEVEN 1 38.5% +43.0%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17293073 AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED METAL SUBSTRATE RICE, STEVEN 66d overdue
18014950 CAN LID AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR PARKER, LAURA EBERT 8d overdue
18091096 CELL CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLS, CELL CULTURE APPARATUS, AND CELL CULTURE JIG MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER 29d
17760082 COATING COMPOSITION, COATED METAL SHEET, AND DRAWN AND IRONED CAN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SAME LAN, YAN 35d
17792801 POROUS SILICA, DEODORANT AGENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEODORANT AGENT LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 36d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1787 2
3733 1
1798 1
1782 1
1736 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18578174 GAS BARRIER MULTILAYER FILM FREEMAN, JOHN D 1787 §112 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
18014950 CAN LID AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR PARKER, LAURA EBERT 3733 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18091096 CELL CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELL CULTURE VESSEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLS, CELL CULTURE APPARATUS, AND CELL CULTURE JIG MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 29, 2022
17760082 COATING COMPOSITION, COATED METAL SHEET, AND DRAWN AND IRONED CAN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SAME LAN, YAN 1782 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Aug 03, 2022
17792801 POROUS SILICA, DEODORANT AGENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEODORANT AGENT LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 1736 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Jul 14, 2022
17293073 AQUEOUS COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED METAL SUBSTRATE RICE, STEVEN 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending May 12, 2021

Managing Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.'s Patent Portfolio?

IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month