Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 1 of 10 (10%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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%)
7
Medium (70%)
1
Easy (10%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (60%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KUCHARCZK, JED A 1 80.2% +15.6%
HEIN, DEVIN C 1 45.8% +29.9%
SASAN, ARADHANA 1 64.4% +26.4%
DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 1 46.5% +48.9%
SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 1 52.1% +53.0%
KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1 46.6% +52.8%
WILSON, MICHAEL C 1 41.7% +17.6%
GERIDO, DWAN A 1 57.7% +30.9%
BARSKY, JARED 1 50.2% +23.0%
LANDAU, SHARMILA GOLLAMUDI 1 9.3% +3.7%

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
16863187 EQUOL-CONTAINING EXTRACT, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF, METHOD FOR EXTRACTION OF EQUOL, AND EQUOL-CONTAINING FOOD LANDAU, SHARMILA GOLLAMUDI 142d overdue

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
18042503 CRYSTALLINE FORM OF HETEROBICYCLIC COMPOUND SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 60d overdue
19220457 METHODS OF DISPERSING ARIPIPRAZOLE INJECTABLE PREPARATIONS KUCHARCZK, JED A 46d overdue
18023211 KAEMPFEROL AGLYCONE-CONTAINING EXTRACT DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 37d overdue
18683025 INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD FOR PREDICTING HEALTH CONDITION OF CONSUMER AND SUPPORTING HEALTH MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT HEIN, DEVIN C 35d overdue
17762481 DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION DEVICE GERIDO, DWAN A 17d overdue
18006969 BLADDER ORGANOID AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME WILSON, MICHAEL C 15d overdue
18042167 BIOMARKERS FOR CANCER THERAPY USING MDM2 ANTAGONISTS KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 19d
17397911 AMELIORATING AGENT FOR FEMALE-SPECIFIC PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL UNPLEASANT SYMPTOM BARSKY, JARED 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1629 2
1623 1
3686 1
1615 1
1683 1
1638 1
1797 1
1628 1
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19220457 METHODS OF DISPERSING ARIPIPRAZOLE INJECTABLE PREPARATIONS KUCHARCZK, JED A 1623 Other Non-Final OA 46d overdue AI Ready May 28, 2025
18683025 INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD FOR PREDICTING HEALTH CONDITION OF CONSUMER AND SUPPORTING HEALTH MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT HEIN, DEVIN C 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18546602 AMORPHOUS FORM AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAID AMORPHOUS FORM SASAN, ARADHANA 1615 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 16, 2023
18023211 KAEMPFEROL AGLYCONE-CONTAINING EXTRACT DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 1629 §102 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18042503 CRYSTALLINE FORM OF HETEROBICYCLIC COMPOUND SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 1629 Other Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2023
18042167 BIOMARKERS FOR CANCER THERAPY USING MDM2 ANTAGONISTS KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Feb 17, 2023
18006969 BLADDER ORGANOID AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME WILSON, MICHAEL C 1638 §112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
17762481 DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION DEVICE GERIDO, DWAN A 1797 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2022
17397911 AMELIORATING AGENT FOR FEMALE-SPECIFIC PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL UNPLEASANT SYMPTOM BARSKY, JARED 1628 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 09, 2021
16863187 EQUOL-CONTAINING EXTRACT, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF, METHOD FOR EXTRACTION OF EQUOL, AND EQUOL-CONTAINING FOOD LANDAU, SHARMILA GOLLAMUDI 1653 §103 Final Rejection 142d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2020

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