Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyota Connected North America Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating technical variety in their pending applications. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is currently being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships across the 2 distinct art units involved.
TANYA CHRISTINE SIENKO is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the assigned staff. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's habits will dominate the prosecution experience for these actions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the Computing & Software focus is split between different technical classifications at the patent office. With 1 pending action for the busiest examiner, the portfolio remains decentralized.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | 1 | 86.4% | +12.5% |
| HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 1 | 68.1% | +11.6% |
| SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 1 | 50.6% | +45.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18339677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VOICEPRINT AUTHENTICATION AND INTERPOLATION | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 53d |
| 19236119 | PROVIDING RECORDED DATA RELATED TO AN EVENT | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18339677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VOICEPRINT AUTHENTICATION AND INTERPOLATION | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 53d |
| 19236119 | PROVIDING RECORDED DATA RELATED TO AN EVENT | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | — |
| 18303903 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL VEHICLES ASSOCIATED WITH CORRESPONDING PHYSICAL VEHICLES | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2124 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19236119 | PROVIDING RECORDED DATA RELATED TO AN EVENT | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 18339677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VOICEPRINT AUTHENTICATION AND INTERPOLATION | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | 2124 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18303903 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL VEHICLES ASSOCIATED WITH CORRESPONDING PHYSICAL VEHICLES | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 3698 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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