Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Toyota Group

32 pending office actions • 23 art units • 31 examiners • 1 of 32 (3%) have an AI response strategy ready • 89 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

32
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (1)

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.

1
Hard (3%)
28
Medium (88%)
2
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (3%)
§103 only28 (88%)
§112 only2 (6%)
No statute on record1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
22% of docket
1
Information Tech
3% of docket
4
Communications
12% of docket
4
Semiconductors
12% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
34% of docket
5
Business / Other
16% 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.

320 h
Manual time on pending OAs
64 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
112 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MOK, ALEX W 2 74.2% +20.8%
FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 1 77.0% +30.6%
HUNTER, MISHAWN N 1 78.1% +14.4%
JARIWALA, CHIRAG 1 61.7% +26.7%
LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 1 72.7% +23.5%
EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE 1 47.9% +42.7%
MIRZA, ADNAN M 1 84.7% +9.8%
MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR 1 69.7% +32.5%
JOHNS, HILARY LYNN 1 81.7% +16.0%
PHAM, ANNIE 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18857333 ELECTRIC VEHICLE MIRZA, ADNAN M
18850411 INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE JOHNS, HILARY LYNN
18893372 PALLET RECOGNITION DEVICE PHAM, ANNIE

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17499546 MODEL LEARNING APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, MODEL LEARNING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM RAHMAN, IBRAHIM 76d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18651982 STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE MOK, ALEX W 7d
18651969 STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR MOK, ALEX W 7d
18966539 INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE AND IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 26d
19142432 CO-ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR FREAY, CHARLES GRANT
19202136 OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE HUNTER, MISHAWN N
19071883 SCROLL ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR JARIWALA, CHIRAG
18857345 FIBER STRUCTURE AND FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE
18850653 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2834 3
1723 3
3746 2
4100 1
2685 1
3667 1
3654 1
2667 1
2838 1
3643 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19142432 CO-ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 3746 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2025
19202136 OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE HUNTER, MISHAWN N 4100 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2025
19071883 SCROLL ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR JARIWALA, CHIRAG 3746 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 06, 2025
18966539 INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE AND IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 03, 2024
18857345 FIBER STRUCTURE AND FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18857333 ELECTRIC VEHICLE MIRZA, ADNAN M 3667 §112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 16, 2024
18850653 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2024
18850411 INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE JOHNS, HILARY LYNN 3654 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2024
18893372 PALLET RECOGNITION DEVICE PHAM, ANNIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 23, 2024
18817752 INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18651982 STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE MOK, ALEX W 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 01, 2024
18651969 STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR MOK, ALEX W 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 01, 2024
18650352 STATOR FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR ALMAWRI, MAGED M 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18623381 MOBILE UNIT CONTROL SYSTEM CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 01, 2024
18615114 POWER CONVERSION DEVICE BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND 2838 Other Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2024
18577192 SUNROOF APPARATUS LYNCH, CARLY W 3643 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue AI Ready Jan 05, 2024
18527549 OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE WOLFSON, ETHAN NOAH 2673 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 04, 2023
18282869 AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING VEHICLE, AND OWN-POSITION ESTIMATING METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING VEHICLE HALL, HANA VICTORIA 3664 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 19, 2023
18282163 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BREWER, JACK ROBERT 3663 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18271381 POWER STORAGE CELL AND POWER STORAGE DEVICE RUTISER, CLAIRE A 1751 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 07, 2023
18037882 POWER STORAGE DEVICE DIGNAN, MICHAEL L 1723 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending May 19, 2023
18252237 ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING APPARATUS KERR, ELIZABETH M 3761 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 09, 2023
18036073 POWER STORAGE MODULE EFYMOW, JESSE JAMES 1723 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2023
18126234 INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE NGUYEN, JASON TOAN 3666 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 24, 2023
18186484 OBSTACLE SENSOR INSPECTION DEVICE AND METHOD VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM 3645 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Mar 20, 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
17921226 POWER STORAGE CELL, POWER STORAGE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POWER STORAGE DEVICE NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 1752 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2022
18880791 SEPARATION METHOD AND SEPARATION DEVICE KOCH, GEORGE R 1745 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 02, 2025
18390147 ADHESIVE AND ADHESION METHOD USING THE SAME PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A 1746 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 20, 2023
18026444 POWER GENERATION CONTROL DEVICE HANSEN, JARED A 1723 §112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
17499546 MODEL LEARNING APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, MODEL LEARNING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM RAHMAN, IBRAHIM 2122 §101 Final Rejection 76d Pending Oct 12, 2021

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