Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyox Co. Ltd. manages 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending actions.
The concentration of 3 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current prosecution is localized in a specific technical division. However, the workload is shared by the distinct examiners. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 2, RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER is responsible for more actions than any other examiner in this portfolio.
For a practitioner, the fact that the distinct examiners are working within the same art unit suggests a degree of technical overlap in the pending matters. The reliance on RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER for the pending actions means that this examiner's specific preferences will influence the portfolio's immediate outcomes. This structure allows the company to focus its strategy on a limited number of patent office personnel within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 2 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
| AHMED, FAISAL | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853897 | HOSE JOINT | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 28d overdue |
| 18845593 | TUBE | AHMED, FAISAL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853897 | HOSE JOINT | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 28d overdue |
| 18855142 | HOSE JOINT AND SLEEVE TO BE USED FOR HOSE JOINT | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855142 | HOSE JOINT AND SLEEVE TO BE USED FOR HOSE JOINT | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18853897 | HOSE JOINT | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18845593 | TUBE | AHMED, FAISAL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialToyox Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Alexander Tyler Rufrano has the most, with 2 of Toyox Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
