Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

R J Reynolds Tobacco Company

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FIEBIG, RUSSELL G 1 62.7% +25.8%
KOSAR, AARON J 1 71.0% +30.2%
DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI 1 53.1% +18.8%
MAYES, DIONNE WALLS 1 64.1% +27.4%
KESSIE, JENNIFER A 1 64.1% +24.9%
PAIK, SANG YEOP 1 65.4% +16.6%

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
18773825 PURIFICATION OF TOBACCO-DERIVED PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS FIEBIG, RUSSELL G 59d overdue
14928584 APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) FOR AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE PAIK, SANG YEOP 16d overdue
17752223 SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPOSITION INCORPORATING A BOTANICAL MATERIAL MAYES, DIONNE WALLS 22d
17948979 IGNITER APPARATUS FOR A SMOKING ARTICLE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI 30d
16440096 PURIFICATION OF NICOTINE KESSIE, JENNIFER A 33d
18389152 CAPSULE-CONTAINING POUCHED PRODUCT FOR ORAL USE KOSAR, AARON J 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1655 2
1747 2
1755 1
3761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18773825 PURIFICATION OF TOBACCO-DERIVED PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS FIEBIG, RUSSELL G 1655 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18389152 CAPSULE-CONTAINING POUCHED PRODUCT FOR ORAL USE KOSAR, AARON J 1655 Other Non-Final OA 41d Pending Nov 13, 2023
17948979 IGNITER APPARATUS FOR A SMOKING ARTICLE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI 1755 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Sep 20, 2022
17752223 SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPOSITION INCORPORATING A BOTANICAL MATERIAL MAYES, DIONNE WALLS 1747 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 24, 2022
16440096 PURIFICATION OF NICOTINE KESSIE, JENNIFER A 1747 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 13, 2019
14928584 APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) FOR AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE PAIK, SANG YEOP 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2015

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