Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (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.

3
Hard (38%)
5
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (12%)
§103 only3 (38%)
Double-patenting + other2 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

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
KENYON, JOHN S 1 80.2% +17.5%
ARCORIA, PAUL JOSEPH 1
NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY 1 59.3% +34.9%
LEE, WILLIAM Y 1 48.0% +33.8%
MILLER, DALE R 1 62.4% +17.4%
O DELL, DAVID K 1 57.7% +36.0%
ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 1 58.9% +41.5%
HUTTER, GILLIAN A 1 54.2% +46.9%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18013696 OXADIAZOLE COMPOUND, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF O DELL, DAVID K 3d overdue
18841895 ISOQUINOLINONE COMPOUND, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREFOR KENYON, JOHN S
18560605 HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING SHP2 ACTIVITY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF LEE, WILLIAM Y

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17765354 DRUG FOR TREATING ARTERY-RELATED DISEASES, AND USE THEREOF HUTTER, GILLIAN A 49d overdue
18286416 NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG AND USE THEREOF MILLER, DALE R 17d overdue
18013696 OXADIAZOLE COMPOUND, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF O DELL, DAVID K 3d overdue
18841895 ISOQUINOLINONE COMPOUND, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREFOR KENYON, JOHN S
18574511 BRUTON'S TYROSINE KINASE AND MUTANT DEGRADER, COMPOSITION AND APPLICATION THEREOF NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY
18560605 HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING SHP2 ACTIVITY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF LEE, WILLIAM Y
18267298 THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR b SELECTIVE AGONIST COMPOUND, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1621 2
1623 1
1693 1
1627 1
1625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18841895 ISOQUINOLINONE COMPOUND, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREFOR KENYON, JOHN S §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 27, 2024
18839865 SALT OF SUBSTITUTED AMINO SIX-MEMBERED NITRIC HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND, CRYSTAL FORM THEREOF, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, AND USE THEREOF ARCORIA, PAUL JOSEPH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 20, 2024
18574511 BRUTON'S TYROSINE KINASE AND MUTANT DEGRADER, COMPOSITION AND APPLICATION THEREOF NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY 1621 §102§103DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
18560605 HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING SHP2 ACTIVITY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 13, 2023
18286416 NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG AND USE THEREOF MILLER, DALE R 1693 §103§112DP Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2023
18013696 OXADIAZOLE COMPOUND, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF O DELL, DAVID K 1621 §103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2023
18267298 THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR b SELECTIVE AGONIST COMPOUND, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 1627 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2023
17765354 DRUG FOR TREATING ARTERY-RELATED DISEASES, AND USE THEREOF HUTTER, GILLIAN A 1625 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2022

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