Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1,323 pending office actions • 288 art units • 950 examiners • 13 of 1,323 (1%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2,636 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyota Motor Corporation currently manages 1340 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This large volume of work is spread across 965 distinct examiners and 289 distinct art units. Oliver E Tan is the busiest examiner for the company, with 6 pending actions currently under review. The use of 965 examiners for the total pending workload indicates that the majority of cases are being examined by individuals who are not handling a large volume of other Toyota matters.
The distribution of cases across 289 art units shows that Toyota's innovations are being classified into a wide variety of technical groups. This requires a prosecution approach that can adapt to the specific requirements of these different departments. Although Oliver E Tan is the busiest examiner with 6 actions, this count is small relative to the 1340 total pending actions. The high number of 965 examiners suggests a fragmented prosecution landscape where individual examiner discretion plays a major role in the outcome of most applications. Practitioners must navigate the specific nuances of the 289 art units while managing a high volume of individual examiner interactions. The presence of the pending actions underscores the company's significant and ongoing investment in technical innovation within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 291 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. 291 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 | 36 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 170 (13%) |
| §103 only | 568 (43%) |
| §102 only | 97 (7%) |
| §112 only | 29 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 14 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 13 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 395 (30%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 | 37.9% | +14.9% |
| RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH | 5 | 80.0% | +15.0% |
| LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN | 5 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 5 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 5 | 49.5% | +44.0% |
| MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 4 | 60.0% | +12.3% |
| MA, KAM WAN | 4 | 62.9% | +21.9% |
| YANG, WENYUAN | 4 | 68.0% | +16.7% |
| BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 4 | 54.4% | +38.3% |
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 |
| 18734458 | WORK RECOGNITION SYSTEM, WORK RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 58d overdue |
| 18313371 | STATOR MANUFACTURING METHOD | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 50d overdue |
| 18373625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | 49d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958416 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 23d overdue |
| 18672807 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM | AFRIN, NAZIA | 9d overdue |
| 19002101 | AUTOMATED VALET PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MA, KAM WAN | 6d |
| 18986101 | DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE | BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 8d |
| 17987919 | CHARGING SYSTEM, SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR CHARGING SYSTEM AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR CHARGING SYSTEM INCLUDING CHARGING CABLE PREDETERMINED SAFETY CONDITIONS | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 22d |
| 17563215 | POWER ALLOCATION BASED ON ENERGY SOURCE | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 28d |
| 19001446 | DEVICE | BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 33d |
| 18939648 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 50 |
| 3662 | 41 |
| 3665 | 41 |
| 3668 | 35 |
| 3663 | 35 |
| 3669 | 33 |
| 3666 | 31 |
| 3612 | 29 |
| 1725 | 25 |
| 3664 | 24 |
| 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 |
| 19401412 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | MORALES, OMAR | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2025 |
| 19393746 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19384458 | SWITCHING APPARATUS | LE, MINH Q | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19375390 | GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19376431 | CONTROLLER FOR VEHICLE | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19367963 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AGENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | SADIO, INSA | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19355288 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 3668 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19352834 | VEHICLE | PATEL, SHARDUL D | 3664 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19350412 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | BRAUCH, CHARLES JOSEPH | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19349647 | CONFIGURATION AND SELECTION OF SIDELINK POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNAL RESOURCE | KHAN, SUHAIL | 2642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Oct 03, 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 |
| 19323233 | VEHICLE DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 3658 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 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 |
| 19302758 | Vehicle and Power Apparatus | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19300876 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT DEVICE | GLENN III, FRANK T | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19299518 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19298621 | ROADWAY DEPARTURE AVOIDANCE DEVICE, ROADWAY DEPARTURE AVOIDANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HATCH, DAVID P | 3668 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 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 |
| 19273858 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SANTOS, KIRSTEN JADE M | 3664 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19272339 | VEHICLE | HASSANIARDEKANI, HAJAR | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19268139 | CHARGING SYSTEM | AZHAR, ARSLAN | 3656 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 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 |
| 19260282 | DRIVER ASSISTANCE CONTROL DEVICE, DRIVER ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND NONTRANSITORY COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | SEOL, DAVIN | 3662 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 04, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialToyota Motor Corporation has 1,323 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 288 art units and 950 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.