Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH

10 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (10%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOSS, WENDY LYNN 2 80.6% +8.6%
SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 2 50.5% +39.9%
FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1 44.4% +2.3%
KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1 44.1% +17.3%
PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1 62.9% +45.5%
WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1 58.7% +27.1%
LIU, ZHEN 1 42.0% +45.8%
LEE, DORIS L 1 58.5% +8.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17755234 UTILITY VEHICLE TIRE BOSS, WENDY LYNN 22d overdue
18728698 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE BOSS, WENDY LYNN 76d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 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
18548569 PNEUMATIC TYRE FOR A VEHICLE SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 81d 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
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
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 LIU, ZHEN 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1749 7
1767 2
1764 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 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Sep 17, 2024
18728698 PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE BOSS, WENDY LYNN 1749 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18715112 LOAD-RESISTENT PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRES WITH REDUCED NOISE EMISSION SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 1749 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending May 30, 2024
18689297 SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER-COATING MIXTURE, AND PNEUMATIC VEHICLE TYRE KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1767 Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Mar 05, 2024
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 Final Rejection 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
18548569 PNEUMATIC TYRE FOR A VEHICLE SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Sep 01, 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 LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Mar 29, 2023
17995108 SULFUR-CROSSLINKABLE RUBBER-COATING MIXTURE LEE, DORIS L 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17755234 UTILITY VEHICLE TIRE BOSS, WENDY LYNN 1749 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2022

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