Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Shionogi & Co. Ltd.

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (57%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (29%)
§102 only1 (14%)
No statute on record4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

7
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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KOSAR, ANDREW D 1 42.1% +31.4%
SHIAO, REI TSANG 1 80.0% -34.5%
ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1 32.6% +48.7%
MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1 74.3% +30.6%
RONEY, CELESTE A 1 62.3% +18.0%
FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1 51.8% -6.7%
KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1 62.8% +51.3%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18230392 SUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC CARBAMOYL PYRIDONE DERIVATIVE PRODRUG MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 97d overdue
18024459 LIPOSOME FORMULATION CONTAINING ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT RONEY, CELESTE A 5d overdue
18278876 METHOD FOR DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING NUCLEIC ACID FROM ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES ALLEN, MICHAEL D 2d overdue
18014097 COMBINED USE OF ANTI-CCR8 ANTIBODY AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENT KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 30d
18578932 NITROGEN-CONTAINING TRICYCLIC COMPOUND AND PHARMACEUTICAL USE THEREOF KOSAR, ANDREW D 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1625 1
1691 1
1671 1
1624 1
1612 1
1617 1
1674 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18578932 NITROGEN-CONTAINING TRICYCLIC COMPOUND AND PHARMACEUTICAL USE THEREOF KOSAR, ANDREW D 1625 Final Rejection 84d Pending Aug 22, 2024
18525177 TREATING INFLUENZA USING SUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC PYRIDONE DERIVATIVES AND PRODRUGS THEREOF IN A SUBJECT HAVING INFLUENZA AND A COMPLICATION RISK FACTOR SHIAO, REI TSANG 1691 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18278876 METHOD FOR DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING NUCLEIC ACID FROM ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
18230392 SUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC CARBAMOYL PYRIDONE DERIVATIVE PRODRUG MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1624 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18024459 LIPOSOME FORMULATION CONTAINING ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT RONEY, CELESTE A 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18007119 LYOPHILIZED FORMULATION CONTAINING CEPHALOSPORIN HAVING CATECHOL GROUP AND THE MANUFACTURING METHOD FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1617 Other Final Rejection 27d Pending Jan 27, 2023
18014097 COMBINED USE OF ANTI-CCR8 ANTIBODY AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENT KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 30, 2022

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