Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyo Seikan Group Holdings Ltd. is currently managing 14 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct art units, indicating that the company's chemical and material innovations are varied. Furthermore, the prosecution involves 14 distinct examiners, with each handling a separate action.
IVAN R GOLDBERG is the busiest examiner for the company, and he is responsible for 1 pending office action. This reflects a distribution where the distinct examiners each oversee a portion of the workload. With 9 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate a range of examination cultures and technical standards to resolve the 14 pending office actions.
The high ratio of 9 distinct art units to 14 pending office actions suggests that Toyo Seikan Group Holdings Ltd. is pursuing a broad array of specialized innovations. Because 14 distinct examiners are involved, there is no single point of contact that dominates the prosecution. This diversity requires a strategy that can adapt to 9 different art unit environments while managing the separate examiner relationships.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 1 | 35.3% | +35.5% |
| PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 1 | 58.1% | +24.7% |
| SHAH, SAMIR | 1 | 36.4% | +34.9% |
| PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | 1 | 66.7% | +15.6% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 53.2% | +62.4% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.9% | +44.1% |
| UNDERDAHL, THANE E | 1 | 58.8% | +50.8% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.9% |
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 78.0% | +48.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 17792801 | POROUS SILICA, DEODORANT AGENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEODORANT AGENT | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 36d |
| 19289693 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFERENCE DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFERENCE METHOD, AND MACHINE LEARNING METHOD | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | — |
| 19254445 | EASY-OPEN PACKAGING BODY | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | — |
| 19091109 | GAS-BARRIER COATING COMPOSITION AND GAS-BARRIER LAMINATE | SHAH, SAMIR | — |
| 18922997 | CAN BODY MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAN BODY | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18294352 | SEAMLESS CAN AND COATED METAL SHEET | ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18392380 | CELL CULTURE METHOD, CELL CULTURE KIT, AND CELL CULTURE SYSTEM | UNDERDAHL, THANE E | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19289693 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFERENCE DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFERENCE METHOD, AND MACHINE LEARNING METHOD | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | — |
| 19254445 | EASY-OPEN PACKAGING BODY | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | — |
| 19091109 | GAS-BARRIER COATING COMPOSITION AND GAS-BARRIER LAMINATE | SHAH, SAMIR | — |
| 18969961 | ANTIVIRAL COATING COMPOSITION, COATING FILM, AND ARTICLE | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | — |
| 18922997 | CAN BODY MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAN BODY | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18294352 | SEAMLESS CAN AND COATED METAL SHEET | ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18294412 | SEAMLESS CAN AND COATED METAL SHEET | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1699 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19289693 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFERENCE DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFERENCE METHOD, AND MACHINE LEARNING METHOD | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19254445 | EASY-OPEN PACKAGING BODY | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 3733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19091109 | GAS-BARRIER COATING COMPOSITION AND GAS-BARRIER LAMINATE | SHAH, SAMIR | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18969961 | ANTIVIRAL COATING COMPOSITION, COATING FILM, AND ARTICLE | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18922997 | CAN BODY MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAN BODY | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18294352 | SEAMLESS CAN AND COATED METAL SHEET | ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18294412 | SEAMLESS CAN AND COATED METAL SHEET | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18392380 | CELL CULTURE METHOD, CELL CULTURE KIT, AND CELL CULTURE SYSTEM | UNDERDAHL, THANE E | 1699 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18318348 | MACHINING JIG, MACHINING METHOD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEAMLESS CAN BODIES | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 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 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17907484 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BOTTOMED CYLINDRICAL BODY | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17760082 | COATING COMPOSITION, COATED METAL SHEET, AND DRAWN AND IRONED CAN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SAME | LAN, YAN | 1782 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
| 17792801 | POROUS SILICA, DEODORANT AGENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DEODORANT AGENT | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
| 17426313 | SEAMLESS CAN BODY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEAMLESS CAN BODY | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2021 |
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