Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Iwaki Seiyaku Co. Ltd.

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Iwaki Seiyaku Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action currently under review. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BELL, SARA ELIZABETH. The data shows 0 distinct art units associated with the current pending actions, while the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending action. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution stage for the company.

The prosecution profile is currently limited to this single interaction. BELL, SARA ELIZABETH manages the entirety of the active workload for the company. This concentration means the immediate outcome of the portfolio's pending status depends on the evaluation of this individual. The presence of 0 distinct art units indicates that the action is not currently classified within the standard art unit tracking for this profile.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

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

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 68.8% +38.2%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18862207 ANILINE-DERIVATIVE-CONTAINING EXTERNAL PREPARATION FOR SKIN BELL, SARA ELIZABETH —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18862207 ANILINE-DERIVATIVE-CONTAINING EXTERNAL PREPARATION FOR SKIN BELL, SARA ELIZABETH —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18862207 ANILINE-DERIVATIVE-CONTAINING EXTERNAL PREPARATION FOR SKIN BELL, SARA ELIZABETH — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024

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