Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Medrx Co. Ltd.

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Medrx Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, meaning no single examiner is handling more than 1 active case for the company. The portfolio's current activity is also divided among 3 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical review processes across different groups at the patent office.

HASTINGS, ALISON AZAR is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 total pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the officials. This structure implies that the company's prosecution efforts are currently decentralized across several different examination groups within the biotechnology sector. For practitioners, this requires managing 3 separate examiner interactions, as each of the 3 pending office actions is being evaluated independently by a different examiner in a different art unit.

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

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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 (50%)
2
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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
HASTINGS, ALISON AZAR 1 62.5% +42.1%
WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1 26.9% +65.7%
GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 1 42.9% +51.8%
SOROUSH, LAYLA 1 40.5% +43.4%

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
18852301 FORMULATION HAVING IMPROVED ABSORBABILITY OF LOW-SOLUBLE AND/OR LOW-MEMBRANE-PERMEABLE DRUG HASTINGS, ALISON AZAR —
18276937 COMPOSITION IN WHICH ABSORBABILITY OF POORLY ABSORBABLE DRUG IS IMPROVED WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS —

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
18036637 Microneedle Array Coated with Composition Containing Particles GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 42d
18852301 FORMULATION HAVING IMPROVED ABSORBABILITY OF LOW-SOLUBLE AND/OR LOW-MEMBRANE-PERMEABLE DRUG HASTINGS, ALISON AZAR —
18276937 COMPOSITION IN WHICH ABSORBABILITY OF POORLY ABSORBABLE DRUG IS IMPROVED WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS —
17926386 Transdermal Formulation Containing Apomorphine SOROUSH, LAYLA —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1629 1
1612 1
3783 1
1622 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18852301 FORMULATION HAVING IMPROVED ABSORBABILITY OF LOW-SOLUBLE AND/OR LOW-MEMBRANE-PERMEABLE DRUG HASTINGS, ALISON AZAR 1629 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18276937 COMPOSITION IN WHICH ABSORBABILITY OF POORLY ABSORBABLE DRUG IS IMPROVED WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1612 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 11, 2023
18036637 Microneedle Array Coated with Composition Containing Particles GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending May 11, 2023
17926386 Transdermal Formulation Containing Apomorphine SOROUSH, LAYLA 1622 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Medrx Co. Ltd. have?

Medrx Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Medrx Co. Ltd. applications?

Alison Azar Hastings has the most, with 1 of Medrx Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Medrx Co. Ltd.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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