Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (22%)
4
Easy (44%)
3
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (22%)
§112 only4 (44%)
No statute on record3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
89% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SONG, JIANFENG 1 56.1% +33.5%
ZHU, QIN 1 87.7% +2.6%
ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG 1 71.4% +29.6%
CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1 50.6% +58.5%
NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY 1 60.8% +33.8%
WANG, CHANG YU 1 33.6% +53.0%
OH, TAYLOR V 1 81.1% +15.4%
STEELE, AMBER D 1 59.1% +9.1%
STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE 1 75.0% +33.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17771241 NOVEL SUBSTITUTED CONDENSED RING COMPOUND OH, TAYLOR V 118d overdue
18545081 DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD ZHU, QIN 110d overdue

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
18113887 THERAPEUTIC DRUG FOR MOTOR COMPLICATIONS IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY 119d overdue
17771241 NOVEL SUBSTITUTED CONDENSED RING COMPOUND OH, TAYLOR V 118d overdue
18258989 THERAPY BASED ON SYNTHETIC LETHALITY IN SWI/SNF COMPLEX-DYSFUNCTION CANCER ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG 87d overdue
13895089 NOVEL BICYCLIC HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE 42d overdue
17794912 DETERMINATION AGENT AND DETERMINATION METHOD FOR TAUOPATHY AND DEMENTIA-RELATED DISEASES WANG, CHANG YU 26d overdue
18723166 1H-PYRAZOLE-3-AMINE DERIVATIVE HAVING BICYCLIC BACKBONE SONG, JIANFENG 15d overdue
18025036 Complex Containing Neural Retina-Containing Cell Aggregates and Matrix, and Method for Manufacturing Same CORDAS, EMILY ANN 7d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1613 1
2691 1
1624 1
1632 1
1621 1
1675 1
1625 1
1658 1
1626 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18723166 1H-PYRAZOLE-3-AMINE DERIVATIVE HAVING BICYCLIC BACKBONE SONG, JIANFENG 1613 §112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18545081 DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD ZHU, QIN 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18258989 THERAPY BASED ON SYNTHETIC LETHALITY IN SWI/SNF COMPLEX-DYSFUNCTION CANCER ROMERO, KRISTEN WANG 1624 Other Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2023
18025036 Complex Containing Neural Retina-Containing Cell Aggregates and Matrix, and Method for Manufacturing Same CORDAS, EMILY ANN 1632 §112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18113887 THERAPEUTIC DRUG FOR MOTOR COMPLICATIONS IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY 1621 Other Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
17794912 DETERMINATION AGENT AND DETERMINATION METHOD FOR TAUOPATHY AND DEMENTIA-RELATED DISEASES WANG, CHANG YU 1675 §112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022
17771241 NOVEL SUBSTITUTED CONDENSED RING COMPOUND OH, TAYLOR V 1625 §112 Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022
17279807 INJECTABLE COMPOSITION STEELE, AMBER D 1658 Other Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2021
13895089 NOVEL BICYCLIC HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND STOCKTON, LAURA LYNNE 1626 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending May 15, 2013

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