Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 08, 2026

Orion Corporation

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
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
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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.

4
Hard (50%)
4
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (12%)
§102 only1 (12%)
Double-patenting + other2 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1 71.4% +11.9%
WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1 25.0% +49.0%
SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1 37.2% +16.0%
SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1 73.1% +13.9%
BARSKY, JARED 1 50.3% +23.1%
ABDALHAMEED, MANAHIL MIRGHANI ALI 1 50.4% +40.1%
BERHANE, SELAM 1 59.0% +55.8%
HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA 1 31.7% +30.6%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18832210 NOVEL SULFATE SALT FORMS OF ISOCHROMAN-IMIDAZOLE STRUCTURED ALPHA-2A ADRENOCEPTOR AGONIST COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P
18730692 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION OF A CYP11A1 INHIBITOR WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS
18573360 PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A CYP11A1 INHIBITOR AND INTERMEDIATES THEREOF SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE
17796691 STABLE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF ROPINIROLE HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18548487 NOVEL SALT FORMS OF A 4H-PYRAN-4-ONE STRUCTURED CYP11A1 INHIBITOR BARSKY, JARED 72d
18832210 NOVEL SULFATE SALT FORMS OF ISOCHROMAN-IMIDAZOLE STRUCTURED ALPHA-2A ADRENOCEPTOR AGONIST COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P
18730692 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION OF A CYP11A1 INHIBITOR WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS
18696317 CYP11A1 INHIBITOR FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L
18573360 PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A CYP11A1 INHIBITOR AND INTERMEDIATES THEREOF SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE
18548489 SOLID FORMS OF A 4H-PYRAN-4-ONE STRUCTURED CYP11A1 INHIBITOR ABDALHAMEED, MANAHIL MIRGHANI ALI
18257761 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) SPACER MODIFICATIONS ENHANCE CAR T CELL FUNCTIONALITY BERHANE, SELAM
17796691 STABLE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF ROPINIROLE HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1628 2
1624 1
1622 1
1675 1
1613 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18832210 NOVEL SULFATE SALT FORMS OF ISOCHROMAN-IMIDAZOLE STRUCTURED ALPHA-2A ADRENOCEPTOR AGONIST COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18730692 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION OF A CYP11A1 INHIBITOR WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2024
18696317 CYP11A1 INHIBITOR FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1628 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2024
18573360 PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A CYP11A1 INHIBITOR AND INTERMEDIATES THEREOF SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1624 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18548487 NOVEL SALT FORMS OF A 4H-PYRAN-4-ONE STRUCTURED CYP11A1 INHIBITOR BARSKY, JARED 1628 §103DPOther Non-Final OA 72d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18548489 SOLID FORMS OF A 4H-PYRAN-4-ONE STRUCTURED CYP11A1 INHIBITOR ABDALHAMEED, MANAHIL MIRGHANI ALI 1622 §103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Aug 30, 2023
18257761 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) SPACER MODIFICATIONS ENHANCE CAR T CELL FUNCTIONALITY BERHANE, SELAM 1675 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2023
17796691 STABLE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF ROPINIROLE HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA 1613 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 01, 2022

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