Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd. has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units. FISCHER, JUSTIN R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The profile shows broad examiner assignment within a narrow art-unit structure. That pattern supports organizing the docket first by technical group, then tailoring responses to each examiner’s record. Counsel can look for repeated chemistry or materials issues across the two art units while avoiding assumptions that one examiner’s approach applies throughout. The single matter assigned to the busiest examiner does not create a concentrated examiner docket.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LY, KENDRA | 1 | 57.7% | +17.5% |
| STANLEY, JANE L | 1 | 58.2% | +29.2% |
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1 | 47.4% | +37.2% |
| JOHNSTONE, ADRIENNE C | 1 | 63.0% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17106753 | Color-changing tire accordant with external conditions | JOHNSTONE, ADRIENNE C | 356d overdue |
| 18128168 | TIRE WITH INTERLOCKING BAND TYPE 3D KERF | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 181d overdue |
| 18695462 | LIPID-BASED BIOMASS DERIVED TIRE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | STANLEY, JANE L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17106753 | Color-changing tire accordant with external conditions | JOHNSTONE, ADRIENNE C | 356d overdue |
| 18128168 | TIRE WITH INTERLOCKING BAND TYPE 3D KERF | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 181d overdue |
| 18715336 | TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD TO WHICH SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TAG TOPPING MODULE IS APPLIED, AND TIRE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | LY, KENDRA | 29d |
| 18695462 | LIPID-BASED BIOMASS DERIVED TIRE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | STANLEY, JANE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 3 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715336 | TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD TO WHICH SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TAG TOPPING MODULE IS APPLIED, AND TIRE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | LY, KENDRA | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18695462 | LIPID-BASED BIOMASS DERIVED TIRE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | STANLEY, JANE L | 1767 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18128168 | TIRE WITH INTERLOCKING BAND TYPE 3D KERF | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1749 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 181d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 17106753 | Color-changing tire accordant with external conditions | JOHNSTONE, ADRIENNE C | 1749 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 356d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialHankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Kendra Ly has the most, with 1 of Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
