Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Centessa Pharmaceuticals (Uk) Limited

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
0
Medium (0%)
3
Easy (75%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only3 (75%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG 1 71.4% +29.6%
WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 1 82.6% +19.7%
SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 1 52.1% +53.0%
LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 1 63.6% +37.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18024236 MEDIUM- OR MACRO-CYCLIC BENZYL-SUBSTITUTED HETEROCYCLE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USES AS OREXIN-2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 37d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17909162 HETEROCYCLE CONTAINING STAT INHIBITORS AND COMPOSITIONS ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG 113d overdue
18024159 STAT INIHIBITORY COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 72d overdue
18024236 MEDIUM- OR MACRO-CYCLIC BENZYL-SUBSTITUTED HETEROCYCLE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USES AS OREXIN-2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 37d overdue
17610899 ACTIVATABLE BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES COMPRISING A LINKER BETWEEN THE TWO BINDING DOMAINS WHICH IS A HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN HINGE REGION, OR A VARIANT THEREOF, AND USES THEREOF LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1624 2
1629 1
1641 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
17909162 HETEROCYCLE CONTAINING STAT INHIBITORS AND COMPOSITIONS ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG 1624 §112 Non-Final OA 113d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2023
18024236 MEDIUM- OR MACRO-CYCLIC BENZYL-SUBSTITUTED HETEROCYCLE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USES AS OREXIN-2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 1624 §112 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2023
18024159 STAT INIHIBITORY COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 1629 Other Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2023
17610899 ACTIVATABLE BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES COMPRISING A LINKER BETWEEN THE TWO BINDING DOMAINS WHICH IS A HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN HINGE REGION, OR A VARIANT THEREOF, AND USES THEREOF LUNDE, GRACE HENRY 1641 §112 Final Rejection 19d Pending Nov 12, 2021

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