Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tesa SE

11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
§112 only1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

11
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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DESAI, ANISH P 3 44.0% +8.5%
WALSHON, SCOTT R 2 50.6% +19.9%
NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L 1 56.6% +37.3%
TOLIN, MICHAEL A 1 63.0% +26.4%
BHUSHAN, KUMAR R 1 73.2% +33.1%
RIOJA, MELISSA A 1 49.6% +54.7%
ROSEBACH, CHRISTINA H.W. 1 58.9% -35.9%
HUHN, RICHARD A 1 66.7% +5.6%

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
18452078 LAMINATE AND METHOD FOR DETACHING THE SAME TOLIN, MICHAEL A 56d overdue
18119942 CURABLE ADHESIVE WITH IMPROVED DIECUTTABILITY AND IMPROVED SHOCK PROPERTIES BHUSHAN, KUMAR R 35d overdue
18095886 POLY(METH)ACRYLATE-BASED PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVES COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE RUBBER RIOJA, MELISSA A 6d
17773680 FOAMED ADHESIVE MASS LAYER AND ADHESIVE TAPE COMPRISING THE FOAMED ADHESIVE MASS LAYER WALSHON, SCOTT R 19d
18461352 Acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive and also adhesive tape furnished with acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive WALSHON, SCOTT R 22d
18289618 MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM, MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY AND USE OF A MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L 65d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1788 4
1759 2
1766 2
1764 2
1745 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18292249 WEB-SHAPED ADHESIVE COMPOUND CONTAINING A POLYURETHANE- AND/OR SILICONE-BASED FILLER DESAI, ANISH P 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jan 25, 2024
18289618 MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM, MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM ASSEMBLY AND USE OF A MATERIAL TAPE SYSTEM NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L 1788 §103 Final Rejection 65d Pending Nov 06, 2023
18461352 Acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive and also adhesive tape furnished with acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive WALSHON, SCOTT R 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18278469 MULTILAYER ADHESIVE STRIP WITH FOAMED SUBSEQUENTLY APPLIED COMPOUNDS FOR IMPROVING COLD SHOCK RESISTANCE DESAI, ANISH P 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2023
18452078 LAMINATE AND METHOD FOR DETACHING THE SAME TOLIN, MICHAEL A 1745 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18119942 CURABLE ADHESIVE WITH IMPROVED DIECUTTABILITY AND IMPROVED SHOCK PROPERTIES BHUSHAN, KUMAR R 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2023
18021301 PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION DESAI, ANISH P 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Feb 14, 2023
18095886 POLY(METH)ACRYLATE-BASED PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVES COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE RUBBER RIOJA, MELISSA A 1764 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 11, 2023
17949641 PRIMER FOR PRODUCING A PARTABLE ADHESIVE BOND ROSEBACH, CHRISTINA H.W. 1766 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2022
17797155 HIGH Tg ACRYLATE COPOLYMERS WITH NITROGEN-CONTAINING AROMATIC HETEROCYCLIC GROUP HUHN, RICHARD A 1764 §112 Final Rejection 29d Pending Aug 03, 2022
17773680 FOAMED ADHESIVE MASS LAYER AND ADHESIVE TAPE COMPRISING THE FOAMED ADHESIVE MASS LAYER WALSHON, SCOTT R 1759 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending May 02, 2022

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