Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Astrazeneca AB

36 pending office actions • 23 art units • 34 examiners • 1 of 36 (3%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

36
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

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.

15
Hard (42%)
14
Medium (39%)
7
Easy (19%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (3%)
§101 + other4 (11%)
§103 only7 (19%)
§102 only2 (6%)
§112 only4 (11%)
Double-patenting only3 (8%)
Double-patenting + other5 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)10 (28%)

Industry Mix

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

29
Life Sciences
81% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
4
Business / Other
11% 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.

360 h
Manual time on pending OAs
72 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
126 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 2 51.4% +17.1%
HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 2 45.8% +39.7%
GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 1 50.0% +25.8%
REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 1 30.0% +33.7%
HEIN, DEVIN C 1 46.0% +29.8%
ROZOF, TIMOTHY R 1 72.7% +23.9%
CHENG, KAREN 1 76.3% +27.1%
PETRASH, HILARY ANN 1 63.9% +53.5%
MOTEVALLI, OROD 1 0.0% +0.0%
COLLINS, CYNTHIA E 1 82.4% +8.7%

Hard Cases (16)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18262934 CLINICAL ENDPOINT ADJUDICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 17d overdue
18590826 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DRUG DELIVERY HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 17d overdue
17998275 ATR INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 10d overdue
18855182 PREDICTING ALBUMINURIA USING MACHINE LEARNING HEIN, DEVIN C 12d
18452008 PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESS AND INTERMEDIATES OH, TAYLOR V 15d
18564778 METHODS OF TREATING BREAST CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 16d
18550546 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE DETECTION OF A POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION OF A POLYPEPTIDE BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 16d
18552014 FORMULATION COMPRISING CERALASERTIB LEE, SIN J 21d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17772187 DRY POWDER FORMULATIONS CONTAINING LEUCINE AND TRILEUCINE HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 19d overdue
18590826 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DRUG DELIVERY HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 17d overdue
18855182 PREDICTING ALBUMINURIA USING MACHINE LEARNING HEIN, DEVIN C 12d
18564778 METHODS OF TREATING BREAST CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 16d
18753316 ANTIBODY MOLECULES AND CONJUGATES PETRASH, HILARY ANN 54d
18855064 PREDICTING DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PORTAL HYPERTENSION USING MACHINE LEARNING REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 70d
19099577 METHODS FOR DETECTING METABOLITES USING A MICROFLUIDIC-BASED CE-MS SYSTEM GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE
18853504 COMBINATION THERAPY FOR TREATING CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1623 3
3686 2
1626 2
1613 2
1638 2
1625 2
1674 2
1616 2
1795 1
1644 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19099577 METHODS FOR DETECTING METABOLITES USING A MICROFLUIDIC-BASED CE-MS SYSTEM GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 1795 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 29, 2025
18855064 PREDICTING DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PORTAL HYPERTENSION USING MACHINE LEARNING REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 3686 §101§112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 08, 2024
18855182 PREDICTING ALBUMINURIA USING MACHINE LEARNING HEIN, DEVIN C 3686 §101§103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Oct 08, 2024
18853504 COMBINATION THERAPY FOR TREATING CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2024
18837956 METHODS OF TREATING PROSTATE CANCER ROZOF, TIMOTHY R §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 13, 2024
18775391 CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS CHENG, KAREN 1623 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 17, 2024
18753316 ANTIBODY MOLECULES AND CONJUGATES PETRASH, HILARY ANN 1644 §112Other Non-Final OA 54d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18718844 CERTAIN 3-AZABICYCLO[3.1.0]HEXANES AS GLP-1 RECEPTOR MODULATORS MOTEVALLI, OROD 1628 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2024
18439897 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICACY OF CAS9-BASED KNOCK-IN STRATEGIES COLLINS, CYNTHIA E 1662 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2024
18435476 TREATMENT OF CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOUS HADDAD, MAHER M §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2024
18291671 TREATMENT OF LUPUS NATARAJAN, MEERA §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 24, 2024
18417379 VACCINE GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1672 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18413349 OSIMERTINIB FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 16, 2024
18539471 PCSK9 INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF HEASLEY, MEGHAN CHRISTINE 1626 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2023
18564778 METHODS OF TREATING BREAST CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18554014 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SITE-SPECIFIC MODIFICATION YU, DAVID TUYANG 1635 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 05, 2023
18552014 FORMULATION COMPRISING CERALASERTIB LEE, SIN J 1613 §103§112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18550546 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE DETECTION OF A POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION OF A POLYPEPTIDE BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 1651 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18550548 CONTROL OF MULTI-GENE EXPRESSION USING SYNTHETIC PROMOTERS VIVLEMORE, TRACY ANN 1638 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 14, 2023
18549852 METHODS FOR TREATING SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER AND OTHER NEUROENDOCRINE CANCERS CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 §103DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18452008 PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESS AND INTERMEDIATES OH, TAYLOR V 1625 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18448559 COMBINATION THERAPIES FOR TREATMENT OF CIRRHOSIS WITH PORTAL HYPERTENSION REDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER EVAN 1629 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue AI Ready Aug 11, 2023
18262934 CLINICAL ENDPOINT ADJUDICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 3685 §101 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18248280 TREATMENT OF FLARES IN LUPUS XIE, XIAOZHEN 1674 DP Final Rejection Pending Apr 07, 2023
18248108 COMBINATION THERAPY FOR TREATING CANCER SANCHEZ, JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER 1622 §112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 06, 2023
18177374 BINDING MOLECULES AGAINST FRa KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 §112DPOther Non-Final OA 60d Pending Mar 02, 2023
17998275 ATR INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 1623 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17893445 METHODS FOR GENERATING PRIMARY IMMUNE CELLS VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1638 §101§102DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2022
17772187 DRY POWDER FORMULATIONS CONTAINING LEUCINE AND TRILEUCINE HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 1616 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2022
17754844 MODULATORS OF PNPLA3 EXPRESSION CHONG, KIMBERLY 1636 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Apr 13, 2022
17765585 METHODS AND COMBINATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER USING IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR ANTIBODIES CHATTIN, AMY MARIE 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
18590826 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DRUG DELIVERY HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 1616 §103§112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18577168 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DRUG DELIVERY BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE 1613 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 05, 2024
18577176 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AEROSOL DRUG DELIVERY LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1615 §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 05, 2024
18012705 COMBINATION OF ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATE AND ATR INHIBITOR KIM, SEONG JONG 1623 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2022
18052840 COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF COVID-19 GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 04, 2022

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