Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC maintains 14 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 13 distinct examiners. The portfolio is spread across 6 distinct art units, showing an organizational footprint within the USPTO. This distribution suggests that the company's innovations cover a variety of chemical and material disciplines.
BOOTH, ALEXANDER D is the busiest examiner, holding 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are distributed among the 13 distinct examiners. This ratio of 13 distinct examiners to 14 pending actions suggests that prosecution strategies must be tailored to individual examiner preferences across the 6 distinct art units. The 6 art units require a strategy that accounts for different technical standards within the Chemistry & Materials area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (46%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | 1 | 62.7% | +19.1% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.2% | +2.5% |
| COMINO, EVA L | 1 | 70.4% | +32.3% |
| BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 1 | 76.7% | +15.0% |
| RUTTEN, JAMES D | 1 | 63.4% | +37.7% |
| KOTTER, KIP T | 1 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
| NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1 | 56.6% | +28.9% |
| PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | 1 | — | — |
| HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| BELLINGER, JASON R | 1 | 70.0% | +18.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118130 | FLEXURE MEMBER FOR NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE SPOKE COMPONENT | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | — |
| 18867707 | LEAF SPRING SUPPORT FOR SPOKE STRUCTURE FOR NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE | COMINO, EVA L | — |
| 18565512 | ESTIMATION OF VERTICAL LOAD ACTING ON A TIRE AS A FUNCTION OF TIRE INFLATION PRESSURE | HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED | — |
| 18349431 | METHODS FOR TREATING INNER LINERS, INNER LINERS RESULTING THEREFROM AND TIRES CONTAINING SUCH INNER LINERS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564325 | NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE HAVING BALANCED SPOKE STIFFNESSES | BELLINGER, JASON R | 4d overdue |
| 19118130 | FLEXURE MEMBER FOR NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE SPOKE COMPONENT | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | — |
| 18867707 | LEAF SPRING SUPPORT FOR SPOKE STRUCTURE FOR NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE | COMINO, EVA L | — |
| 18889468 | Tire Tread Rubber Composition | BOSS, WENDY LYNN | — |
| 18792217 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR SPLICE IMPROVEMENT | RUTTEN, JAMES D | — |
| 18725093 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING A TIRE INFLATION PRESSURE | KOTTER, KIP T | — |
| 18732055 | TIRES HAVING A TREAD OR SIDEWALL COMPRISING RUBBER COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING CARBON BLACK AND WHEY PROTEIN | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 4 |
| 1749 | 3 |
| 1763 | 2 |
| 2121 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118130 | FLEXURE MEMBER FOR NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE SPOKE COMPONENT | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | 3615 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19057257 | Tire Tread Rubber Composition And Related Methods | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18867707 | LEAF SPRING SUPPORT FOR SPOKE STRUCTURE FOR NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE | COMINO, EVA L | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18889468 | Tire Tread Rubber Composition | BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18792217 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR SPLICE IMPROVEMENT | RUTTEN, JAMES D | 2121 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18725093 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING A TIRE INFLATION PRESSURE | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18732055 | TIRES HAVING A TREAD OR SIDEWALL COMPRISING RUBBER COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING CARBON BLACK AND WHEY PROTEIN | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18259209 | Tire Having Tread Of Specified Rubber Composition And Related Methods | PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | 1763 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18565512 | ESTIMATION OF VERTICAL LOAD ACTING ON A TIRE AS A FUNCTION OF TIRE INFLATION PRESSURE | HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED | 2857 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18564325 | NON-PNEUMATIC TIRE HAVING BALANCED SPOKE STIFFNESSES | BELLINGER, JASON R | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18260934 | RUBBER VULCANIZATION PROCESSES EMPLOYING A EUTECTIC MIXTURE | FANG, SHANE | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 18349431 | METHODS FOR TREATING INNER LINERS, INNER LINERS RESULTING THEREFROM AND TIRES CONTAINING SUCH INNER LINERS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 1749 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 17755635 | Tire Having Tread Of Specified Rubber Composition And Related Methods | AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | May 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 13 examiners.
Alex Robert Palmer has the most, with 1 of Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
