Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

17 pending office actions • 3 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

8
Hard (47%)
7
Medium (41%)
2
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (35%)
§112 only2 (12%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (47%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
71% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
4
Business / Other
24% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 4 63.5% +45.5%
FISCHER, JUSTIN R 2 44.3% +2.3%
SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 2 48.6% +35.6%
DYE, ROBERT C 1 63.4% +11.4%
NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z 1 45.5% +40.1%
BOSS, WENDY LYNN 1 76.7% +15.0%
KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1 45.2% +15.9%
SHI, GERARD ZHIHAO 1 — —
CHEN, PO-CHIH 1 74.2% +14.8%
NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1 56.6% +29.0%

Hard Cases (8)

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
18715112 LOAD-RESISTENT PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRES WITH REDUCED NOISE EMISSION SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 21d
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
18836013 COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR ELASTOMERIC PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR VEHICLE TYRES, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP —
18716411 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE AND VULCANISING MOULD PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP —
18707863 VEHICLE TYRE PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP —
18564972 SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER MIXTURE, VULCANIZATE OF THE RUBBER MIXTURE, AND VEHICLE TIRE NERANGIS, VICKEY M —
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 —

Interview Candidates (12)

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
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
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
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 —
18716411 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE AND VULCANISING MOULD PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1749 11
3619 1
1767 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18816792 SYSTEMS FOR DEPOSITING COATINGS ON SURFACES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z — §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
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
18715112 LOAD-RESISTENT PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRES WITH REDUCED NOISE EMISSION SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 1749 §103§112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 30, 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
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
18688424 AGING-RESISTANT LIGHT-PERMEABLE COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR VEHICLE TIRES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF SHI, GERARD ZHIHAO — §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 — §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2024
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
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

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