Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 11 examiners across 6 art units, reflecting a substantial workload distributed among many examiners but recurring technical examination groups.
SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner is a natural coordination point, but does not represent the full docket. Counsel should organize prosecution by art unit and identify reusable technical positions while preserving matter-specific claim and prior-art analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 3 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.2% | +2.5% |
| DYE, ROBERT C | 1 | 63.4% | +11.1% |
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1 | 45.7% | +40.3% |
| PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1 | 63.6% | +45.9% |
| ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1 | 47.4% | +37.2% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.3% | +17.2% |
| SHI, GERARD ZHIHAO | 1 | — | — |
| CHEN, PO-CHIH | 1 | 74.3% | +14.7% |
| WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1 | 60.0% | +26.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715328 | COMPOUND, RUBBER BLEND CONTAINING THE COMPOUND, VEHICLE TIRE COMPRISING THE RUBBER BLEND IN AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOUND, AND USE OF THE COMPOUND AS AN AGEING PROTECTANT AND/OR ANTIOXIDANT AND/OR DYE | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715112 | LOAD-RESISTENT PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRES WITH REDUCED NOISE EMISSION | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 21d |
| 18836013 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR ELASTOMERIC PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR VEHICLE TYRES, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
| 17999973 | RADIAL VEHICLE TIRE HAVING A RUBBER RIM STRIP, USE OF A RUBBER RIM STRIP, AND A VEHICLE WHEEL SYSTEM COMPRISING THE RADIAL VEHICLE TIRE | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557740 | PNEUMATIC TYRE FOR A TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE HAVING A PROTECTIVE LAYER | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 149d overdue |
| 18689297 | SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER-COATING MIXTURE, AND PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 15d |
| 18715112 | LOAD-RESISTENT PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRES WITH REDUCED NOISE EMISSION | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 21d |
| 18846429 | VEHICLE TIRE WITH VEHICLE TIRE IDENTIFIER | DYE, ROBERT C | — |
| 18816792 | SYSTEMS FOR DEPOSITING COATINGS ON SURFACES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | — |
| 18836013 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR ELASTOMERIC PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR VEHICLE TYRES, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
| 18291150 | COMPOUND, RUBBER BLEND CONTAINING THE COMPOUND, VEHICLE TIRE COMPRISING THE RUBBER BLEND IN AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOUND, AND USE OF THE COMPOUND AS AN AGEING PROTECTANT AND/OR ANTIOZONANT AND/OR DYE | CHEN, PO-CHIH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 5 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848119 | SELF-SEALING TYRE SEALANT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE HAVING THE TYRE SEALANT, AND USE OF A DISPERSION OF A CROSS-LINKING AGENT IN A PLASTICISER IN THE PRODUCTION OF A TYRE SEALANT | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18846429 | VEHICLE TIRE WITH VEHICLE TIRE IDENTIFIER | DYE, ROBERT C | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18816792 | SYSTEMS FOR DEPOSITING COATINGS ON SURFACES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18836013 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR ELASTOMERIC PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR VEHICLE TYRES, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1749 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18715328 | COMPOUND, RUBBER BLEND CONTAINING THE COMPOUND, VEHICLE TIRE COMPRISING THE RUBBER BLEND IN AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOUND, AND USE OF THE COMPOUND AS AN AGEING PROTECTANT AND/OR ANTIOXIDANT AND/OR DYE | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18715112 | LOAD-RESISTENT PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRES WITH REDUCED NOISE EMISSION | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1749 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18689297 | SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER-COATING MIXTURE, AND PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18688424 | AGING-RESISTANT LIGHT-PERMEABLE COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR VEHICLE TIRES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | SHI, GERARD ZHIHAO | 1765 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18291150 | COMPOUND, RUBBER BLEND CONTAINING THE COMPOUND, VEHICLE TIRE COMPRISING THE RUBBER BLEND IN AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOUND, AND USE OF THE COMPOUND AS AN AGEING PROTECTANT AND/OR ANTIOZONANT AND/OR DYE | CHEN, PO-CHIH | 1621 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18557740 | PNEUMATIC TYRE FOR A TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE HAVING A PROTECTIVE LAYER | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 149d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 17999973 | RADIAL VEHICLE TIRE HAVING A RUBBER RIM STRIP, USE OF A RUBBER RIM STRIP, AND A VEHICLE WHEEL SYSTEM COMPRISING THE RADIAL VEHICLE TIRE | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | 1749 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17995108 | SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER-COATING MIXTURE | LEE, DORIS L | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialContinental Reifen Deutschland GmbH has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 12 examiners.
Justin R Fischer has the most, with 1 of Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
