Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kowa Company Ltd.

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
5
Medium (71%)
1
Easy (14%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DRAPER, LESLIE A ROYDS 1 27.4% +43.3%
CHIEN, LUCY P 1 82.9% +5.7%
APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN 1 65.5% +18.6%
BHUSHAN, KUMAR R 1 73.2% +33.1%
TRUONG, KATELYN T 1 56.3% +38.9%
RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1 40.0% +48.9%
BARHAM, BETHANY P 1 51.6% +32.2%

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
18605928 THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR OCULAR FUNDUS DISEASE DRAPER, LESLIE A ROYDS 14d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17418091 PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION BARHAM, BETHANY P 128d overdue
17611949 MASS PRODUCTION SYSTEM OF RECOMBINANT BAGWORM SILK THREAD PROTEIN RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 17d overdue
18263730 NOVEL COPOLYMER BHUSHAN, KUMAR R 15d overdue
18287210 RING-TYPE LIGHTING DEVICE APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN 4d overdue
18605928 THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR OCULAR FUNDUS DISEASE DRAPER, LESLIE A ROYDS 14d
18246733 BEHAVIOR CONTROL METHOD AND SPINNING POSITION CONTROL METHOD FOR BAGWORMS TRUONG, KATELYN T 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1629 1
2871 1
2875 1
1766 1
3647 1
1635 1
1611 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18605928 THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR OCULAR FUNDUS DISEASE DRAPER, LESLIE A ROYDS 1629 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18529526 OPTICAL DESIGN METHOD AND DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT CHIEN, LUCY P 2871 Other Final Rejection 33d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18287210 RING-TYPE LIGHTING DEVICE APENTENG, JESSICA MCMILLAN 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2023
18263730 NOVEL COPOLYMER BHUSHAN, KUMAR R 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2023
18246733 BEHAVIOR CONTROL METHOD AND SPINNING POSITION CONTROL METHOD FOR BAGWORMS TRUONG, KATELYN T 3647 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 27, 2023
17611949 MASS PRODUCTION SYSTEM OF RECOMBINANT BAGWORM SILK THREAD PROTEIN RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1635 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2021
17418091 PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION BARHAM, BETHANY P 1611 §103 Final Rejection 128d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2021

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