Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Toyox Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are located in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's prosecution is highly concentrated, as evidenced by the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the matters.
RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions, which accounts for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Having 2 busiest examiner pending actions out of a total of 2 pending office actions means that all legal arguments and amendments are being reviewed by the same individual.
The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the subject matter of the 2 pending office actions is technically related. Practitioners can benefit from this centralization by maintaining a consistent dialogue with RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER. The strategy for resolving the 2 pending office actions should be unified, as the 1 distinct examiner will likely apply the same logic to the cases within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853897 | HOSE JOINT | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 28d 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 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 |
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