Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Yellowstone Tire LLC is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action currently under review. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a specific technical focus for the company's pending matter. The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action matches the total of 1 pending office action for the entire company, indicating a highly concentrated workload.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that Yellowstone Tire LLC's immediate patent goals are subject to a single review process. For a practitioner, this requires a strategy tailored to the specific examination style of KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH within the Chemistry & Materials field. The fact that there is only 1 pending office action simplifies the management of deadlines but places significant importance on the outcome of this individual case. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is targeting a narrow technical niche in its current intellectual property efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 46.2% | +46.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18453964 | CONCENTRIC TIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18453964 | CONCENTRIC TIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18453964 | CONCENTRIC TIRE STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialYellowstone Tire LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas Joseph Kessler Jr. has the most, with 1 of Yellowstone Tire LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
