Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apollo Tyres Global R&D B.V. currently has 1 pending office action. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner. The data shows 0 distinct art units associated with this portfolio, which indicates a specific administrative status for the pending matter. This concentration of the portfolio suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a single point of prosecution, requiring minimal coordination across different divisions of the patent office.
DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL is the busiest examiner, managing the only pending office action. This single action constitutes the total pending workload for the company. Practitioners should monitor the examiner's specific requirements as they represent the only active point of contact in the current data. The absence of multiple art units or examiners means that the prosecution strategy can be highly tailored to the feedback from this one individual. This streamlined approach reduces the overhead associated with managing a larger, more dispersed portfolio and allows for a direct line of communication regarding the company's intellectual property interests.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.0% | -4.5% |
| DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1 | 61.5% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617975 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR TYRES | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| 18523555 | LOW ROLLING RESISTANCE RUBBER COMPOSITION | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523555 | LOW ROLLING RESISTANCE RUBBER COMPOSITION | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18617975 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR TYRES | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18523555 | LOW ROLLING RESISTANCE RUBBER COMPOSITION | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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