Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc.

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 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.

5
Hard (56%)
4
Medium (44%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§101 + other1 (11%)
§103 only3 (33%)
Double-patenting + other1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
44% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
44% of docket
1
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GANGLE, BRIAN J 1 76.7% +15.0%
CHEUNG, CHUN HOI 1 62.1% +39.1%
BOUCHELLE, LAURA A 1 80.3% +10.4%
GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1 59.1% +46.3%
WANG, RUIXUE 1 57.4% +22.1%
OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1 77.5% +20.4%
VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 1 68.3% +27.5%
KOO, BENJAMIN K 1 57.3% +49.3%
SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1 30.2% +50.5%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18858778 VIAL HOLDER CHEUNG, CHUN HOI 58d overdue
17763600 MEASURING PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION DEVICES INCORPORATING SAME VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 33d
19029331 MDR E. COLI IMMUNOGEN GANGLE, BRIAN J
17763585 DRUG DELIVERY ADJUSTMENT BOUCHELLE, LAURA A
18045525 ANTI-HUMAN VISTA ANTIBODIES AND USE THEREOF OUSPENSKI, ILIA I

Interview Candidates (9)

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
17998592 STABILIZED CORONAVIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN FUSION PROTEINS WANG, RUIXUE 170d overdue
18858778 VIAL HOLDER CHEUNG, CHUN HOI 58d overdue
17763600 MEASURING PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION DEVICES INCORPORATING SAME VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 33d
19029331 MDR E. COLI IMMUNOGEN GANGLE, BRIAN J
17763585 DRUG DELIVERY ADJUSTMENT BOUCHELLE, LAURA A
18498448 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING GENE EXPRESSION GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE
18045525 ANTI-HUMAN VISTA ANTIBODIES AND USE THEREOF OUSPENSKI, ILIA I
17763602 DRUG ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO DETERMINE A DRUG DOSING SCHEME KOO, BENJAMIN K

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3783 3
3736 1
1637 1
1672 1
1644 1
1758 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19029331 MDR E. COLI IMMUNOGEN GANGLE, BRIAN J §101§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
18858778 VIAL HOLDER CHEUNG, CHUN HOI 3736 §102§103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2024
17763585 DRUG DELIVERY ADJUSTMENT BOUCHELLE, LAURA A 3783 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 20, 2023
18498448 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING GENE EXPRESSION GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2023
17998592 STABILIZED CORONAVIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN FUSION PROTEINS WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 170d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2022
18045525 ANTI-HUMAN VISTA ANTIBODIES AND USE THEREOF OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1644 §101Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 11, 2022
17763600 MEASURING PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION DEVICES INCORPORATING SAME VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 3783 §102§103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Mar 24, 2022
17763602 DRUG ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO DETERMINE A DRUG DOSING SCHEME KOO, BENJAMIN K 3783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 24, 2022
17240648 METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF POLYSACCHARIDES IN COMPLEX GLYCOCONJUGATE COMPOSITIONS SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1758 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 26, 2021

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