Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd.

8 pending office actions • 1 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

4
Hard (50%)
4
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

8
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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES 2 49.6% +16.8%
PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1 63.2% +45.0%
MAKI, STEVEN D 1 65.2% +24.9%
LY, KENDRA 1 58.1% +18.5%
SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 1 48.6% +38.1%
BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 1 53.4% +37.2%
JOHNSTONE, ADRIENNE C 1 63.2% +35.0%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
18626625 TIRE DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES 34d
18721667 PNEUMATIC TIRE MAKI, STEVEN D

Interview Candidates (8)

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
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
18112337 3D BLADE FOR FORMING KERF BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 10d overdue
18882262 TIRE DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES 28d
18715336 TIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD TO WHICH SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TAG TOPPING MODULE IS APPLIED, AND TIRE MANUFACTURED THEREBY LY, KENDRA 29d
18626625 TIRE DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES 34d
18862376 TIRE HAVING BEAD PORTION FOR IMPROVING TRANSVERSE RIGIDITY AND DURABILITY PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP
18721667 PNEUMATIC TIRE MAKI, STEVEN D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1749 8

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18862376 TIRE HAVING BEAD PORTION FOR IMPROVING TRANSVERSE RIGIDITY AND DURABILITY PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 01, 2024
18882262 TIRE DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES 1749 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 11, 2024
18721667 PNEUMATIC TIRE MAKI, STEVEN D 1749 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 19, 2024
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
18626625 TIRE DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES 1749 §102§103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 04, 2024
18128168 TIRE WITH INTERLOCKING BAND TYPE 3D KERF SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK 1749 §103§112 Final Rejection 181d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18112337 3D BLADE FOR FORMING KERF BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Feb 21, 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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