Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

AstraZeneca AB

27 pending office actions • 21 art units • 27 examiners • 1 of 27 (4%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
22
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
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. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 30 days (8)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.

2
Hard (7%)
15
Medium (56%)
3
Easy (11%)
7
Unknown (26%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (7%)
§103 only13 (48%)
§112 only3 (11%)
Double-patenting + other2 (7%)
No statute on record7 (26%)

Industry Mix

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

24
Life Sciences
89% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
11% 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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HEIN, DEVIN C 1 45.8% +29.9%
REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 1 30.3% +34.0%
PETRASH, HILARY ANN 1 63.8% +51.7%
HABTE, KAHSAY 1 84.9% +7.3%
STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1 44.2% +31.4%
FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1 49.5% +14.6%
SCHMIDT, IZABELA MARIA 1 63.1% +53.5%
LEE, SIN J 1 68.8% +25.5%
JACKSON, SHAWQUIA 1 77.9% -3.4%
BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 1 66.5% +32.1%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17926235 TUMOR MUTATIONAL BURDEN ASSOCIATED WITH SENSITIVITY TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA AEDER, SEAN E 124d overdue
18855064 PREDICTING DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PORTAL HYPERTENSION USING MACHINE LEARNING REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 70d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18421142 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER WITH CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 45d overdue
18855182 PREDICTING ALBUMINURIA USING MACHINE LEARNING HEIN, DEVIN C 12d
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
18492216 METHODS OF TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER SCHMIDT, IZABELA MARIA 26d
18753316 ANTIBODY MOLECULES AND CONJUGATES PETRASH, HILARY ANN 54d
18855064 PREDICTING DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PORTAL HYPERTENSION USING MACHINE LEARNING REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1626 3
3686 2
1625 2
1629 2
1642 2
1644 1
1624 1
1632 1
1621 1
1613 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18855182 PREDICTING ALBUMINURIA USING MACHINE LEARNING HEIN, DEVIN C 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 08, 2024
18855064 PREDICTING DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PORTAL HYPERTENSION USING MACHINE LEARNING REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 3686 §101 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Oct 08, 2024
18753316 ANTIBODY MOLECULES AND CONJUGATES PETRASH, HILARY ANN 1644 Other Non-Final OA 54d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18443829 SPIROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS HABTE, KAHSAY 1624 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18421142 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING CANCER WITH CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E 1632 §112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2024
18564778 METHODS OF TREATING BREAST CANCER FETTEROLF, BRANDON J 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18492216 METHODS OF TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER SCHMIDT, IZABELA MARIA 1621 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 23, 2023
18552014 FORMULATION COMPRISING CERALASERTIB LEE, SIN J 1613 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18470548 PCSK9 INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JACKSON, SHAWQUIA 1626 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18550546 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE DETECTION OF A POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION OF A POLYPEPTIDE BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18549852 METHODS FOR TREATING SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER AND OTHER NEUROENDOCRINE CANCERS CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18452008 PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESS AND INTERMEDIATES OH, TAYLOR V 1625 §103 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 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18257123 N-(2-(4-CYANOTHIAZOLIDIN-3-YL)-2-OXOETHYL)-QUINOLINE-4-CARBOXAMIDES ANDERSON, REBECCA L 1626 §112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
18253280 STEROID SPARING HADDAD, MAHER M 1641 Other Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18247014 COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING CANCER TOWNSLEY, SARA ELIZABETH 1629 Other Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18177374 BINDING MOLECULES AGAINST FRa KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 DPOther Non-Final OA 60d Pending Mar 02, 2023
17926235 TUMOR MUTATIONAL BURDEN ASSOCIATED WITH SENSITIVITY TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA AEDER, SEAN E 1642 §101 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
17998275 ATR INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER HIRAKIS, SOPHIA P 1623 Other Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
18046173 COMBINATION REDDIG, PETER J 1646 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2022
17917333 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED SITE-SPECIFIC MODIFICATION ALLEN, SARAH ELIZABETH 1637 Other Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 06, 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 §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
17754258 COMBINATION TREATMENT FOR CANCER DARPOLOR, JOSEPHINE KEBBEH 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2022
17318017 METHODS AND COMBINATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER USING IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR ANTIBODIES BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1647 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 12, 2021

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