Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

15 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 60 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
3
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

2
Hard (13%)
12
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (13%)
§103 only9 (60%)
§102 only3 (20%)
§112 only1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
27% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
13% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
53% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KECK, DANIEL M 1 81.1% +17.3%
MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A 1 47.4% +48.9%
REFAI, SAM M 1 34.5% +7.5%
ADAMS, CARL 1 71.5% +17.2%
BLAIR, KILE O 1 63.2% +7.9%
NELSON JR, MILTON 1 84.6% +5.6%
KENERLY, TERRANCE L 1 73.5% +15.3%
FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1 69.7% +13.3%
DO, ROWLAND 1 70.0% -5.7%
GABLER, PHILIP F 1 73.4% +24.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18746629 VEHICLE SEAT NELSON JR, MILTON 14d
19245901 VEHICULAR INTERIOR COMPONENT KECK, DANIEL M 48d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19013450 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT SWITCHING METHOD, VEHICLE, AND PROGRAM REFAI, SAM M 14d
19171637 VEHICLE DISPATCH DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A 41d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18648609 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ROTOR AND ROTOR KENERLY, TERRANCE L 29d overdue
19013128 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD, VEHICLE, AND PROGRAM ADAMS, CARL 22d
18543592 SEAT GABLER, PHILIP F 28d
18628032 APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ROTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ROTOR FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 34d
19171637 VEHICLE DISPATCH DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A 41d
19245901 VEHICULAR INTERIOR COMPONENT KECK, DANIEL M 48d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3614 2
3636 2
3628 1
3621 1
2627 1
2691 1
2834 1
1741 1
3677 1
1785 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19245901 VEHICULAR INTERIOR COMPONENT KECK, DANIEL M 3614 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Jun 23, 2025
19171637 VEHICLE DISPATCH DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A 3628 §101 Final Rejection 41d Pending Apr 07, 2025
19013450 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT SWITCHING METHOD, VEHICLE, AND PROGRAM REFAI, SAM M 3621 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jan 08, 2025
19013128 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD, VEHICLE, AND PROGRAM ADAMS, CARL 2627 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 08, 2025
18746437 SEAT WITH SPEAKER BLAIR, KILE O 2691 §102 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18746629 VEHICLE SEAT NELSON JR, MILTON 3636 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18648609 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ROTOR AND ROTOR KENERLY, TERRANCE L 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18628032 APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ROTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ROTOR FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1741 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18602442 LOCKING DEVICE AND LOCKING SYSTEM DO, ROWLAND 3677 §102 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18543592 SEAT GABLER, PHILIP F 3636 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18210835 FUEL CELL STACK REDDY, SATHAVARAM I 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18131093 EASY CHAIR HALL, HANA VICTORIA 3664 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18112627 VEHICULAR INTERIOR COMPONENT TATESURE, VINCENT 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2023
18090857 VEHICULAR INTERIOR COMPONENT SLITERIS, JOSELYNN Y 3614 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2022
17684915 EVALUATION INSTRUMENT AND EVALUATION METHOD ABEL, LENORA A 1799 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Mar 02, 2022

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