Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 1 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 8 pending office actions. All of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus despite the volume of pending work.
The prosecution involves 7 distinct examiners. DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES is the busiest examiner, managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The remaining pending office actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. This structure means that while the company deals with multiple examiners, they are all operating within the same 1 distinct art unit. For a portfolio with 8 pending office actions, this concentration within the Chemistry & Materials field allows for a highly specialized but multi-faceted prosecution strategy.
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.
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.
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 | 3 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES | 2 | 51.1% | +16.8% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1 | 63.5% | +45.5% |
| MAKI, STEVEN D | 1 | 65.1% | +25.0% |
| LY, KENDRA | 1 | 58.4% | +18.2% |
| STANLEY, JANE L | 1 | 58.4% | +29.5% |
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1 | 48.6% | +35.6% |
| JOHNSTONE, ADRIENNE C | 1 | 63.2% | +35.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 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 |
| 18626625 | TIRE | DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES | 34d |
| 18721667 | PNEUMATIC TIRE | MAKI, STEVEN D | — |
| 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 8 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18695462 | LIPID-BASED BIOMASS DERIVED TIRE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | STANLEY, JANE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 8 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208517 | TIRE | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 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 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18695462 | LIPID-BASED BIOMASS DERIVED TIRE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | STANLEY, JANE L | — | §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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