Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

49 pending office actions • 15 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 49 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 103 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

49
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 48 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
2
Due this week
24
Due this month
8
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. 48 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (24)Due ≤ 60 days (8)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%)
45
Medium (92%)
3
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only43 (88%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only3 (6%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

41
Life Sciences
84% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
16% 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.

490 h
Manual time on pending OAs
98 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
172 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 9 55.4% +18.5%
FISCHER, JUSTIN R 7 44.4% +2.3%
LY, KENDRA 6 57.8% +18.7%
WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 3 58.7% +27.1%
PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 2 62.9% +45.5%
MAKI, STEVEN D 2 65.3% +24.6%
WEILER, NICHOLAS JOSEPH 2 62.1% -18.4%
DYE, ROBERT C 1 63.4% +11.1%
DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE 1 61.3% +29.7%
LEYSON, JOSEPH S 1 65.7% +36.5%

Interview Candidates (25)

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
18960067 PNEUMATIC TIRE DYE, ROBERT C 67d overdue
18856738 FUNCTIONAL-COMPONENT-ATTACHED ACCOMMODATING BODY AND TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 23d overdue
18848368 CONTAINER WITH FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT, AND TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 23d overdue
18848350 ACCOMMODATION BODY WITH FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT AND TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 3d overdue
17262177 Pneumatic Tire and Method of Manufacturing the Same PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1d overdue
18002885 PNEUMATIC TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 6d
18850925 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING TIRE MEMBER LEYSON, JOSEPH S 12d
18849326 FUNCTIONAL PART ASSEMBLY AND TIRE COMPRISING SAME LY, KENDRA 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1749 33
3753 2
1767 2
3619 1
1744 1
3634 1
3648 1
3754 1
3679 1
1789 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19159088 TIRE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 22, 2025
19080400 PNEUMATIC TIRE WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1749 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 14, 2025
18960067 PNEUMATIC TIRE DYE, ROBERT C 3619 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Nov 26, 2024
18856738 FUNCTIONAL-COMPONENT-ATTACHED ACCOMMODATING BODY AND TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2024
18850932 HOSE FOR REFRIGERANT TRANSPORTATION AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE 3753 §102 Final Rejection 55d Pending Sep 25, 2024
18850925 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING TIRE MEMBER LEYSON, JOSEPH S 1744 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 25, 2024
18850361 TIRE PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 24, 2024
18849326 FUNCTIONAL PART ASSEMBLY AND TIRE COMPRISING SAME LY, KENDRA 1749 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18848350 ACCOMMODATION BODY WITH FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT AND TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2024
18848368 CONTAINER WITH FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT, AND TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2024
18848358 STORAGE BODY WITH FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT AND TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 18, 2024
18835146 TIRE MAKI, STEVEN D 1749 §112 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Aug 01, 2024
18719152 PNEUMATIC TIRE LY, KENDRA 1749 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18719126 PNEUMATIC TIRE LY, KENDRA 1749 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18713942 DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING MECHANISM OF AIRCRAFT LAVATORY UNIT REPHANN, JUSTIN B 3634 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending May 28, 2024
18710844 TIRE FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending May 16, 2024
18709951 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LONGITUDINAL TEAR IN CONVEYOR BELT HENSON, BRANDON JAMES 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 14, 2024
18701849 FLUSH SWITCH FOR AIRCRAFT LAVATORY UNIT SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 164d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2024
18691723 ASSEMBLY OF RESIN PIPE AND METAL MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ASSEMBLY BOCHNA, DAVID 3679 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18691086 TIRE LY, KENDRA 1749 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18691320 TIRE LY, KENDRA 1749 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18439197 ASSEMBLY SHEET IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1789 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18396173 Pneumatic Tire FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 26, 2023
18546888 TIRE MAKI, STEVEN D 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18271900 SEALANT COMPOSITION AND TIRE USING THE SAME HALL, DEVE V. 1763 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18271882 SEALANT COMPOSITION AND TIRE USING THE SAME ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18271772 SEALANT COMPOSITION AND TIRE USING THE SAME GOLOBOY, JAMES C 1771 Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18258974 PNEUMATIC TIRE WEILER, NICHOLAS JOSEPH 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18256356 RUBBER COMPOSITION SALAMON, PETER A 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18038504 MARINE HOSE LU, HAOTIAN 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending May 24, 2023
18253545 RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR TIRES LEE, DORIS L 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18250302 MIRROR SYSTEM AND AIRCRAFT LAVATORY UNIT TRUONG, MILTON LARSON 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
18002885 PNEUMATIC TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18002895 PNEUMATIC TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18002892 PNEUMATIC TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 22, 2022
17999667 PNEUMATIC TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 22, 2022
17904117 PNEUMATIC TIRE FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Aug 12, 2022
17904116 PNEUMATIC TIRE BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 1749 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Aug 12, 2022
17810758 TIRE FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2022
17757856 RUBBER COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND TIRE FOR CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 22, 2022
17756300 PNEUMATIC TIRE FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending May 20, 2022
17756299 PNEUMATIC TIRE FISCHER, JUSTIN R 1749 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending May 20, 2022
17756298 PNEUMATIC TIRE SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 20, 2022
17593648 PNEUMATIC TIRE WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Sep 22, 2021
17294155 PNEUMATIC TIRE WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 14, 2021
17283985 PNEUMATIC TIRE WEILER, NICHOLAS JOSEPH 1749 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2021
17262681 Pneumatic Tire LY, KENDRA 1749 §112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jan 22, 2021
17262177 Pneumatic Tire and Method of Manufacturing the Same PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2021
16757352 Pneumatic Tire DARBY, BRENDON CHARLES 1749 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 17, 2020

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