Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Sederma

6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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.

2
Hard (33%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (33%)
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HIBBERT, CATHERINE S 1 59.3% +47.7%
KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1 30.0% +38.8%
KOMATSU, LI N 1 59.6% +71.0%
REYNOLDS, FRED H 1 33.1% +39.0%
JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY 1 51.7% +77.8%
LEE, JIA-HAI 1 49.8% +48.0%

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
16963578 USE OF CYCLIC PEPTIDES IN COSMETIC LEE, JIA-HAI 42d overdue
18035840 TETRAPEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THEM, AND THEIR COSMETIC USE KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH

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
17765707 PEPTIDE BASED COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES REYNOLDS, FRED H 44d overdue
16963578 USE OF CYCLIC PEPTIDES IN COSMETIC LEE, JIA-HAI 42d overdue
18018412 COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL PEPTIDE-BASED TREATMENT OF THE SKIN AND ITS INTEGUMENTS KOMATSU, LI N 2d overdue
18035860 TETRAPEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THEM, AND THEIR COSMETIC USE HIBBERT, CATHERINE S 26d
18035840 TETRAPEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THEM, AND THEIR COSMETIC USE KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH
17642581 N-ACYL-TYROSINE DERIVATIVES AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1658 5
1691 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18035860 TETRAPEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THEM, AND THEIR COSMETIC USE HIBBERT, CATHERINE S 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 08, 2023
18035840 TETRAPEPTIDES, COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THEM, AND THEIR COSMETIC USE KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH 1658 §101§102§112 Final Rejection Pending May 08, 2023
18018412 COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL PEPTIDE-BASED TREATMENT OF THE SKIN AND ITS INTEGUMENTS KOMATSU, LI N 1658 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2023
17765707 PEPTIDE BASED COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §102Other Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17642581 N-ACYL-TYROSINE DERIVATIVES AND USES THEREOF JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER LINDSAY 1691 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 11, 2022
16963578 USE OF CYCLIC PEPTIDES IN COSMETIC LEE, JIA-HAI 1658 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2020

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