Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH

23 pending office actions • 7 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

11
Hard (48%)
12
Medium (52%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (48%)
Double-patenting + other1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (48%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

18
Life Sciences
78% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
13% of docket
2
Business / Other
9% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 5 63.2% +45.0%
FISCHER, JUSTIN R 3 44.2% +2.3%
WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 2 59.4% +26.7%
ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 1 29.9% +55.7%
DYE, ROBERT C 1 63.4% +11.3%
BOSS, WENDY LYNN 1 78.9% +10.9%
SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 1 48.6% +38.1%
BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 1 53.4% +37.2%
KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1 44.7% +16.3%
JONES, KOLTON ED 1

Hard Cases (11)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18560637 GROOVED ROLLER, DEVICE FOR EMBEDDING REINFORCEMENTS MADE OF STEEL IN A RUBBER MIXTURE WEB, AND USES OF THIS DEVICE PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 34d
18728698 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE BOSS, WENDY LYNN 76d
19141386 METHOD FOR DETECTING AND TREATING PLANTS, AND PLANT TREATMENT DEVICE ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS
19101864 COMPRESSOR SYSTEMS FOR PUNCTURE REPAIR KITS PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP
18716411 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE AND VULCANISING MOULD PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP
18707863 VEHICLE TYRE PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP
18700451 APPARATUS FOR VULCANISING A TYRE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN APPARATUS FOR VULCANISING TYRES BOOTH, ALEXANDER D
18688441 COMPOSITE MATERIAL AS ABRASION PROTECTION FOR VEHICLE TIRES, AND PRODUCTION METHOD PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP

Interview Candidates (13)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
18560637 GROOVED ROLLER, DEVICE FOR EMBEDDING REINFORCEMENTS MADE OF STEEL IN A RUBBER MIXTURE WEB, AND USES OF THIS DEVICE PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 34d
18728698 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE BOSS, WENDY LYNN 76d
19141386 METHOD FOR DETECTING AND TREATING PLANTS, AND PLANT TREATMENT DEVICE ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS
19101864 COMPRESSOR SYSTEMS FOR PUNCTURE REPAIR KITS PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP
18846429 VEHICLE TIRE WITH VEHICLE TIRE IDENTIFIER DYE, ROBERT C
18716411 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE AND VULCANISING MOULD PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1749 14
1767 2
3643 1
3619 1
1762 1
3761 1
1764 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19141386 METHOD FOR DETECTING AND TREATING PLANTS, AND PLANT TREATMENT DEVICE ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 3643 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2025
19101864 COMPRESSOR SYSTEMS FOR PUNCTURE REPAIR KITS PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2025
18291984 VEHICLE TYRE FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 17, 2025
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 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Sep 17, 2024
18846429 VEHICLE TIRE WITH VEHICLE TIRE IDENTIFIER DYE, ROBERT C 3619 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 12, 2024
18728698 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE BOSS, WENDY LYNN 1749 §103§112 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18716411 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE AND VULCANISING MOULD PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 04, 2024
18711473 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE WITH A BELT BANDAGE SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 1749 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2024
18707863 VEHICLE TYRE PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 06, 2024
18700451 APPARATUS FOR VULCANISING A TYRE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN APPARATUS FOR VULCANISING TYRES BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 1749 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2024
18696544 ELASTOMER PRODUCT FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2024
18689297 SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER-COATING MIXTURE, AND PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1767 §103DP Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 05, 2024
18688441 COMPOSITE MATERIAL AS ABRASION PROTECTION FOR VEHICLE TIRES, AND PRODUCTION METHOD PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 01, 2024
18570648 RUBBER MIXTURE AND TYRE JONES, KOLTON ED §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18570613 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRES COMPRISING A CARCASS PLY WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1749 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 14, 2023
18564972 SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER MIXTURE, VULCANIZATE OF THE RUBBER MIXTURE, AND VEHICLE TIRE NERANGIS, VICKEY M §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Nov 28, 2023
18560637 GROOVED ROLLER, DEVICE FOR EMBEDDING REINFORCEMENTS MADE OF STEEL IN A RUBBER MIXTURE WEB, AND USES OF THIS DEVICE PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 13, 2023
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
18247163 COMPOUND, RUBBER MIXTURE CONTAINING THE COMPOUND, VEHICLE TIRE WHICH HAS AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT COMPRISING THE RUBBER MIXTURE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COMPOUND, AND USE OF THE COMPOUND AS AN AGING PROTECTION AGENT AND/OR ANTIOXIDANT AGENT AND/OR ANTIOZONANT AND/OR DYE EASHOO, MARK 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Mar 29, 2023
18246150 CROSS-LINKABLE RUBBER MIXTURE AND PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 21, 2023
18002325 METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOLD SEGMENT COMPONENT, MOLD SEGMENT COMPONENT, VULCANIZATION MOLD, AND PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TIRE TRAN, TIFFANY T 3761 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2022
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 Final Rejection Pending Nov 28, 2022
17995108 SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER-COATING MIXTURE LEE, DORIS L 1764 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Sep 29, 2022

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