Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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%)
2
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (67%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (33%)
No statute on record4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

6
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.

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
BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 1 64.2% +29.6%
KELLY, ROBERT M 1 74.1% +24.6%
VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1 67.7% +39.0%
FOX, ALLISON M 1 71.5% +36.1%
SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1 65.8% +47.7%
MOSS, NATALIE M 1 31.2% +17.2%

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
18080134 HEMANGIO-COLONY FORMING CELLS FOX, ALLISON M 73d overdue
18472176 MODALITIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE RETINA KELLY, ROBERT M 58d overdue
18504238 METHODS OF PRODUCING HUMAN RPE CELLS AND PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS OF HUMAN RPE CELLS BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 19d overdue
16669931 METHOD OF GENERATING NATURAL KILLER CELLS AND DENDRITIC CELLS FROM HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL-DERIVED HEMANGIOBLASTS MOSS, NATALIE M 8d
18363663 MODALITIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE RETINA VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 20d
17632723 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING VASCULAR DISEASES SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1633 3
1632 1
1638 1
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18504238 METHODS OF PRODUCING HUMAN RPE CELLS AND PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS OF HUMAN RPE CELLS BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 1632 Other Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2023
18472176 MODALITIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE RETINA KELLY, ROBERT M 1638 Other Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2023
18363663 MODALITIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE RETINA VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1633 Other Non-Final OA 20d Pending Aug 01, 2023
18080134 HEMANGIO-COLONY FORMING CELLS FOX, ALLISON M 1633 Other Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
17632723 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING VASCULAR DISEASES SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Feb 03, 2022
16669931 METHOD OF GENERATING NATURAL KILLER CELLS AND DENDRITIC CELLS FROM HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL-DERIVED HEMANGIOBLASTS MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Oct 31, 2019

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