Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
36 pending office actions • 17 art units • 33 examiners • 0 of 36 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 97 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyota Group has 37 pending office actions focused in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 18 distinct art units, showing a relatively high degree of specialization given the total volume. The involvement of 34 distinct examiners means that almost every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This high ratio of examiners to actions suggests that the company's prosecution experience is highly fragmented.
SHAAWAT, MUSSA A is identified as the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions. Because the total number of pending office actions is 37 and the number of distinct examiners is 34, the portfolio maintains a high level of examiner diversity. This distribution suggests that prosecution outcomes are likely to be influenced by a wide range of examiner perspectives across the 18 art units. Practitioners must be prepared to address the specific requirements of these various departments while managing relationships with many different people.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions with SHAAWAT, MUSSA A is the only instance of examiner overlap. For the rest of the portfolio, the strategy must be individualized. Navigating the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area across so many different people requires a flexible and case-specific prosecution style to account for the unique preferences of each examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 | 2 (6%) |
| §103 only | 14 (39%) |
| §102 only | 4 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 16 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAAWAT, MUSSA A | 2 | 76.6% | +5.8% |
| MOK, ALEX W | 2 | 74.3% | +20.8% |
| BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 2 | 50.0% | +66.7% |
| ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 1 | 69.6% | +40.2% |
| PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 1 | 74.4% | +14.9% |
| DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 1 | 77.4% | +31.8% |
| JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 1 | 62.3% | +27.3% |
| JOHNSON, ERIC | 1 | 62.3% | +22.7% |
| SINGH, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 77.0% | +2.3% |
| ZHANG, JUE | 1 | 83.3% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282163 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 60d overdue |
| 18186484 | OBSTACLE SENSOR INSPECTION DEVICE AND METHOD | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 18d overdue |
| 18651969 | STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR | MOK, ALEX W | 7d |
| 18651982 | STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE | MOK, ALEX W | 7d |
| 18474552 | ARTICLE DETECTION DEVICE, CALIBRATION METHOD, AND ARTICLE DETECTION METHOD | GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH | 20d |
| 19364149 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
| 19055812 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR | JOHNSON, ERIC | — |
| 18985147 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT | ZHANG, JUE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282163 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 60d overdue |
| 18651969 | STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR | MOK, ALEX W | 7d |
| 18651982 | STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE | MOK, ALEX W | 7d |
| 19442066 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | — |
| 19364149 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
| 19124943 | CO-ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | — |
| 19071883 | SCROLL ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | — |
| 19055812 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR | JOHNSON, ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 4 |
| 3667 | 2 |
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19442066 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19364149 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19124943 | CO-ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19071883 | SCROLL ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19062330 | INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE | SHAAWAT, MUSSA A | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19055812 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR | JOHNSON, ERIC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19022043 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | SINGH, ALEXANDER A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18985147 | POWER CONVERTER AND CURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT | ZHANG, JUE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18957086 | CARGO HANDLING SYSTEM | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18863485 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18857333 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE | MIRZA, ADNAN M | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18909321 | CARGO HANDLING SYSTEM | PONTIUS, JAMES M | 2488 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18893372 | PALLET RECOGNITION DEVICE | PHAM, ANNIE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18846947 | VEHICLE THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18830782 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18766827 | CARGO HANDLING CONTROL DEVICE | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18651969 | STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR | MOK, ALEX W | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18651982 | STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE | MOK, ALEX W | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18623381 | MOBILE UNIT CONTROL SYSTEM | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18609353 | POWER CONVERTER | TARDIF, DAVID P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18691675 | CONTROL SYSTEM | SHAAWAT, MUSSA A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18599927 | VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE | JEPPSON, PAMELA J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18685367 | RESTRAINING JIG | NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18291769 | COMBUSTOR | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18508659 | VEHICLE OPERATION ASSIST SYSTEM | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18474552 | ARTICLE DETECTION DEVICE, CALIBRATION METHOD, AND ARTICLE DETECTION METHOD | GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH | 2676 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18282163 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18454405 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM | SONG, KEVIN | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18186484 | OBSTACLE SENSOR INSPECTION DEVICE AND METHOD | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18024114 | ELECTRICITY STORAGE DEVICE | NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN | 1752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18098852 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE OF PERSON DETECTION SYSTEM | FELIX, BRADLEY OBAS | 2671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 18013194 | OBSTACLE DETECTOR AND OBSTACLE DETECTION METHOD | LI, HELEN | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 18880791 | SEPARATION METHOD AND SEPARATION DEVICE | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18837650 | EMOTION-INDUCING DEVICE, EMOTION-INDUCING METHOD, AND DATABASE AND ODOR CLASSIFICATION INDICATORS USED FOR SAID EMOTION-INDUCING DEVICE AND SAID EMOTION-INDUCING METHOD | REDDY, SUNITA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18783732 | SEED CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE AND GRAPHITE SUSCEPTOR WITH SEED CRYSTAL SUBSTRATE | CHAPMAN, JAMES EDWARD | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18567052 | EVALUATION DEVICE, EVALUATION SYSTEM, EVALUATION METHOD AND ITS STORAGE MEDIUM | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 2857 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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