Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Senju Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
1
Medium (25%)
1
Easy (25%)
2
Unknown (50%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (25%)
§112 only1 (25%)
No statute on record2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

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
KIFLE, BRUCK 1 79.2% +15.9%
LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1 69.8% +31.0%
SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 1 56.6% +21.7%
STEELE, AMBER D 1 59.1% +9.1%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18269837 NRF2-ACTIVATING COMPOUND KIFLE, BRUCK 14d
17831843 THERAPEUTIC DRUG FOR DISEASES RELATED TO ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM CELL DEATH IN CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 33d
18330510 CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM ECM THERAPEUTIC MEDICAMENTS LANKFORD JR, LEON B 54d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1624 1
1657 1
1629 1
1658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18269837 NRF2-ACTIVATING COMPOUND KIFLE, BRUCK 1624 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18330510 CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM ECM THERAPEUTIC MEDICAMENTS LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1657 §102 Final Rejection 54d Pending Jun 07, 2023
17831843 THERAPEUTIC DRUG FOR DISEASES RELATED TO ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM CELL DEATH IN CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 1629 Other Final Rejection 33d Pending Jun 03, 2022
17610844 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING NEUROTROPHIC KERATITIS WHICH CONTAINS PACAP PEPTIDE OR STABILIZED PACAP PEPTIDE STEELE, AMBER D 1658 Other Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 12, 2021

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