Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1,247 pending office actions • 279 art units • 902 examiners • 8 of 1,247 (1%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2,641 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyota Motor Corporation has 1281 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio spans 923 examiners and 279 art units, requiring extensive coordination across a very broad examination footprint.
TAN, OLIVER E is the busiest examiner, with 6 pending matters. The identified concentration is modest within the overall docket, so scalable systems for deadlines, recurring issues, and technical ownership are central prosecution needs.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 252 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. 252 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 only | 34 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 167 (13%) |
| §103 only | 522 (42%) |
| §102 only | 100 (8%) |
| §112 only | 26 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 13 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 15 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 368 (30%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAN, OLIVER E | 6 | 72.6% | +8.8% |
| AFRIN, NAZIA | 6 | 34.4% | +19.8% |
| GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS | 6 | 33.0% | +7.7% |
| ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 5 | 58.8% | +33.6% |
| RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH | 5 | 83.3% | +10.0% |
| LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | 5 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 5 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 4 | 60.0% | +12.3% |
| DYER, ANDREW R | 4 | 59.6% | +39.3% |
| SHARMA, SHIVAM | 4 | 43.4% | +8.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18905574 | CONTROL DEVICE AND SYSTEM | RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH | — |
| 18739343 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH | — |
| 18499134 | DRIVABLE SURFACE AND LANE GROUP ESTIMATION | RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH | — |
| 18499126 | DRIVABLE SURFACE AND LANE GROUP ESTIMATION | RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17713896 | DISPATCHING VEHICLES TO LOCATIONS BASED ON NEED | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 170d overdue |
| 17655760 | LOAD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, WALKING TRAINING SYSTEM, LOAD MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 154d overdue |
| 18344762 | BODY SHAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM | NAJARIAN, LENA | 147d overdue |
| 18142352 | SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ITS CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM | DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA | 131d overdue |
| 18423039 | ADAPTIVE DRIVER INTERFACE USING DRIVER COGNITIVE FACTORS | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 127d overdue |
| 18607221 | VEHICLE SYSTEMS FOR RESPONDING TO SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY AROUND THE VEHICLE | REINERT, JONATHAN E | 67d overdue |
| 18734458 | WORK RECOGNITION SYSTEM, WORK RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 58d overdue |
| 18313371 | STATOR MANUFACTURING METHOD | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 50d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672807 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM | AFRIN, NAZIA | 9d overdue |
| 18941568 | CONTROLLER FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 8d overdue |
| 18376518 | SERVER AND GUIDANCE METHOD | DYER, ANDREW R | 27d |
| 18939648 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 34d |
| 18383206 | DRIVER MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVER MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | AFRIN, NAZIA | 69d |
| 19379110 | VIDEO PREVIEW NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VIDEO PREVIEW NAVIGATION SYSTEM | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | — |
| 19338456 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | — |
| 19321733 | BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | AFRIN, NAZIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 52 |
| 3662 | 38 |
| 3665 | 38 |
| 3668 | 37 |
| 3663 | 34 |
| 3666 | 32 |
| 1725 | 32 |
| 3669 | 30 |
| 3612 | 27 |
| 3747 | 23 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19532409 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | CHATLY, AMIT | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2026 |
| 19455305 | EXHAUST MONITORING APPARATUS | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 3746 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2026 |
| 19448341 | VEHICLE TRANSLATION INFORMATION PROJECTION SYSTEM AND TRANSLATION INFORMATION PROJECTION METHOD FOR THE SYSTEM | BUKOWSKI, KENNETH | 2621 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
| 19447514 | IN-VEHICLE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | BOCAR, DONNA V | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2026 |
| 19428637 | CAR SHARING SYSTEM AND CONTROL DEVICE | ZEROUAL, OMAR | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19427279 | VEHICLE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE | MERCEDES, DISMERY E | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19415226 | VEHICLE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | XAVIER, ANTONIO J | 2622 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 19408620 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | SITTNER, MATTHEW T | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19401412 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | MORALES, OMAR | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2025 |
| 19400195 | DOOR CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, DOOR CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 3661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2025 |
| 19396457 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE | YENKE, BRIAN P | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19393746 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19389124 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON | 3628 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19384458 | SWITCHING APPARATUS | LE, MINH Q | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19379110 | VIDEO PREVIEW NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VIDEO PREVIEW NAVIGATION SYSTEM | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 3662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19375390 | GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19367650 | SUSPENSION MEMBER STRUCTURE | O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19355288 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 3668 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19355629 | CONTROLLER, CHARGING SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE | SHIAO, DAVID A | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19352834 | VEHICLE | PATEL, SHARDUL D | 3664 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19351379 | CONTROL DEVICE | NGUYEN, BAO LONG T | 3661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19350412 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | BRAUCH, CHARLES JOSEPH | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19343128 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | AMICK, JACOB M | 3747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19469856 | VALVE DEVICE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19338456 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 3658 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19336775 | PRESSURE VESSEL | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19334477 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | PARRIES, DRU M | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19331826 | CONTROL DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE | 3666 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19330136 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | WEBER, TAMARA L | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19326117 | SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 2169 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19326032 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | ZEROUAL, OMAR | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19325082 | SOLAR CELL MODULE | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19321733 | BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | AFRIN, NAZIA | 3666 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19309329 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR MOBILE BODY | ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 19307681 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | MORTELL, JOHN F | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19305012 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | ALKIRSH, AHMED | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
| 19299518 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19296195 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR NEGATIVE ELECTRODE | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19289477 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | REIDY, SEAN PATRICK | 3663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19287391 | VEHICLE FUNCTION INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND VEHICLE FUNCTION INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19284163 | ROUTE PLANNING SYSTEM | ALHARBI, ADAM MOHAMED | 3663 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19281858 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 3623 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19278781 | BATTERY SYSTEM, ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE, ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND SERVER | TRIVEDI, ATUL | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19278222 | ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER, DETERMINATION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DETERMINATION PROGRAM, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING TRANSMISSION PROGRAM | HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | 2458 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19276594 | BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE | AFRIN, NAZIA | 3666 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19274876 | VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | 3664 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19274072 | VEHICLE DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE DISPLAY SYSTEM, VEHICLE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | 3658 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19273858 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SANTOS, KIRSTEN JADE M | 3664 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19264327 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | GUZMAN, JAVIER O | 2496 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19263237 | SERVER APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | CIRNU, ALEXANDRU | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialToyota Motor Corporation has 1,247 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 279 art units and 902 examiners.
Oliver E Tan has the most, with 6 of Toyota Motor Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
