Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 3 of 10 (30%) have an AI response strategy ready • 58 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pirelli Tyre S.p.a. has 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 6 distinct examiners, meaning some examiners are managing multiple applications. The portfolio is concentrated within 3 distinct art units, suggesting a focused technical range for these chemistry matters. The use of only 3 distinct art units indicates that the prosecution process is relatively centralized, allowing the company to focus on the specific standards of a few specialized groups for its 10 pending office actions.
FISCHER, JUSTIN R is the busiest examiner, responsible for 3 pending office actions. This single examiner handles a notable portion of the 10 total pending actions for the company. For the practitioner, the relationship with FISCHER, JUSTIN R is important, as this examiner oversees multiple pending matters. The presence of 6 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for individual examiner preferences while adhering to the specific technical requirements of those units. Managing 3 pending office actions with a single examiner allows for some consolidation.
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 | 7 (70%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 3 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| DYE, ROBERT C | 2 | 63.4% | +11.4% |
| BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 2 | 54.4% | +37.6% |
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
| USELDING, JOHN E | 1 | 53.7% | +17.5% |
| EASHOO, MARK | 1 | 37.3% | +35.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17645929 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 78d overdue |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17645929 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 78d overdue |
| 18710600 | A TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | DYE, ROBERT C | 5d overdue |
| 17776024 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 70d |
| 18858712 | TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | DYE, ROBERT C | — |
| 18710897 | TIRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
| 18708312 | COMPOSITIONS FOR ELASTOMERIC COMPOUNDS COMPRISING A NEW SECONDARY CROSS-LINKING SYSTEM AND TIRES COMPRISING THE SAME | USELDING, JOHN E | — |
| 18564307 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE TYRE | EASHOO, MARK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 5 |
| 3619 | 2 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19134000 | BELTLESS TYRE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 18858712 | TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | DYE, ROBERT C | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18710897 | TIRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18710600 | A TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | DYE, ROBERT C | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18708312 | COMPOSITIONS FOR ELASTOMERIC COMPOUNDS COMPRISING A NEW SECONDARY CROSS-LINKING SYSTEM AND TIRES COMPRISING THE SAME | USELDING, JOHN E | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18564307 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE TYRE | EASHOO, MARK | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18552023 | TYRE FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18248960 | TYRE COMPRISING A MONITORING DEVICE | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17776024 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
| 17645929 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR BUILDING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 1749 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | AI Ready | Dec 23, 2021 |
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