Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Toyobo Co. Ltd.

27 pending office actions • 16 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 50 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (3)

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%)
23
Medium (85%)
1
Easy (4%)
3
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only20 (74%)
§102 only2 (7%)
§112 only1 (4%)
Double-patenting + other1 (4%)
No statute on record3 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

26
Life Sciences
96% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% 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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FREEMAN, JOHN D 3 45.9% +7.1%
CHOI, PETER Y 2 20.9% +33.6%
LAN, YAN 2 62.9% +22.2%
BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 2 53.3% +47.1%
KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1 60.7% +28.8%
RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 1 72.6% +24.9%
DILLON, DANIEL P 1 25.2% +29.5%
CHO, DAVID H 1 38.2% +75.0%
GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 1 32.0% +48.5%
SHUKLA, KRUPA 1 14.5% +22.6%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18032433 NON-COATED POLYESTER BASE FABRIC FOR AIRBAG CHOI, PETER Y 146d overdue
18254106 BIAXIALLY ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE RESIN FILM, AND PACKAGING USING SAME SHUKLA, KRUPA 43d overdue
18291771 TRANSPARENT HEAT-RESISTANT LAMINATED FILM DILLON, DANIEL P 26d
18695278 LAMINATED FILM, FILM FOR PROTECTED HORTICULTURE, AND WOVEN OR KNITTED FABRIC CHOI, PETER Y 83d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18032433 NON-COATED POLYESTER BASE FABRIC FOR AIRBAG CHOI, PETER Y 146d overdue
17917323 COPOLYMERIZED POLYESTER RESIN, HEAT-SHRINKABLE FILM, HEAT-SHRINKABLE LABEL, AND PACKAGED PRODUCT BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 72d overdue
18254106 BIAXIALLY ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE RESIN FILM, AND PACKAGING USING SAME SHUKLA, KRUPA 43d overdue
18547371 HEAT-SHRINKABLE POLYESTER FILM GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 17d overdue
18643154 POLYESTER FILM AND USE THEREOF KHATRI, PRASHANT J 9d overdue
17997896 COPOLYMERIZED POLYESTER RAW MATERIAL FOR FILM, HEAT-SHRINKABLE POLYESTER-BASED FILM, HEAT-SHRINKABLE LABEL, AND PACKAGE PRODUCT BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 4d overdue
18291771 TRANSPARENT HEAT-RESISTANT LAMINATED FILM DILLON, DANIEL P 26d
18578958 LAYERED FILM AND PACKING BAG LAN, YAN 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1787 5
1782 3
1765 3
1783 2
1786 2
1788 2
1746 1
1693 1
1785 1
1799 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18643154 POLYESTER FILM AND USE THEREOF KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1783 Other Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18699753 CROSSLINKED POLYESTER RESIN, ADHESIVE AGENT COMPOSITION, AND ADHESIVE SHEET RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 1746 §102 Final Rejection 41d Pending Apr 09, 2024
18695278 LAMINATED FILM, FILM FOR PROTECTED HORTICULTURE, AND WOVEN OR KNITTED FABRIC CHOI, PETER Y 1786 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18291771 TRANSPARENT HEAT-RESISTANT LAMINATED FILM DILLON, DANIEL P 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18578958 LAYERED FILM AND PACKING BAG LAN, YAN 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18571852 LAMINATE FREEMAN, JOHN D 1787 Other Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18566488 LAMINATE FREEMAN, JOHN D 1787 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18558962 LAMINATE OF INORGANIC SUBSTRATE AND HEAT-RESISTANT POLYMER FILM FREEMAN, JOHN D 1787 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18289139 METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR REGENERATING COLLECTED POLYESTER RESIN LAN, YAN 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Nov 01, 2023
18548997 ANTIVIRAL AGENT CHO, DAVID H 1693 DPOther Final Rejection 76d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18547371 HEAT-SHRINKABLE POLYESTER FILM GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 1785 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18254106 BIAXIALLY ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE RESIN FILM, AND PACKAGING USING SAME SHUKLA, KRUPA 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending May 23, 2023
18033973 CELL CRYOPRESERVATION HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1799 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18250131 HIGHLY ADHESIVE POLYESTER FILM CHEN, VIVIAN 1787 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 21, 2023
18032433 NON-COATED POLYESTER BASE FABRIC FOR AIRBAG CHOI, PETER Y 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2023
18031761 CROSSLINKED AROMATIC POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2023
18030546 BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING BELT FOR CALF MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2023
18020316 INORGANIC MATERIAL-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 1763 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 08, 2023
17997896 COPOLYMERIZED POLYESTER RAW MATERIAL FOR FILM, HEAT-SHRINKABLE POLYESTER-BASED FILM, HEAT-SHRINKABLE LABEL, AND PACKAGE PRODUCT BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1765 Other Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17920135 CELLULOSE-BASED ION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME, EXOSOME PURIFICATION DEVICE, AND EXOSOME PURIFICATION METHOD RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2022
17917323 COPOLYMERIZED POLYESTER RESIN, HEAT-SHRINKABLE FILM, HEAT-SHRINKABLE LABEL, AND PACKAGED PRODUCT BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2022
17913610 LIGHT-SENSITIVE RESIN ORIGINAL PRINTING PLATE FOR LETTERPRESS PRINTING CHU, JOHN S Y 1737 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17906568 BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE FILM FROST, ANTHONY J 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2022
17622378 POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FOAM MOLDING AND FOAM MOLDED BODY LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Final Rejection 124d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021
17612139 POLYAMIDE-BASED RESIN COMPOSITION FOR INJECTION MOLDING AND SLIDING COMPONENT FORMED THEREFROM LENIHAN, JEFFREY S 1765 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Nov 17, 2021
17442741 LAMINATED POLYESTER FILM DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D 1788 §102 Final Rejection 62d Pending Sep 24, 2021
17425992 READILY ADHESIVE POLYESTER FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME MANGOHIG, THOMAS A 1788 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jul 27, 2021

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