Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

45 pending office actions • 28 art units • 42 examiners • 0 of 45 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 90 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

45
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 45 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

25
Overdue
1
Due this week
11
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 45 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (25)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (4)

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.

1
Hard (2%)
25
Medium (56%)
5
Easy (11%)
14
Unknown (31%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only23 (51%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only5 (11%)
No statute on record14 (31%)

Industry Mix

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

39
Life Sciences
87% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
1
Business / Other
2% 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.

450 h
Manual time on pending OAs
90 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
158 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COFFA, SERGIO 2 61.0% +33.3%
SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 2 62.5% +37.6%
ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 2 53.2% +58.5%
NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1 73.1% +18.3%
SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1 52.9% +47.9%
HADDAD, MAHER M 1 50.4% +54.3%
HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1 52.8% +51.5%
NGUYEN, NGHI V 1 53.6% +50.4%
LAU, JONATHAN S 1 63.8% -18.5%
ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 1 56.8% +41.6%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18557836 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLS NGUYEN, NGHI V 28d overdue

Interview Candidates (12)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18535781 VEDOLIZUMAB FOR THE TREATMENT OF FISTULIZING CROHN'S DISEASE HADDAD, MAHER M 121d overdue
18550571 PLASMA KALLIKREIN INHIBITORS ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 79d overdue
17554539 QD DOSING OF GIP RECEPTOR AGONIST PEPTIDE COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 73d overdue
17556857 PURIFICATION OF FVIII FROM PLASMA USING SILICON OXIDE ADSORPTION ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 66d overdue
18557836 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLS NGUYEN, NGHI V 28d overdue
17264720 FORMULATIONS FOR IMPROVED STABILITY OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN PARATHYROID HORMONE COFFA, SERGIO 17d overdue
18030901 THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR IMMUNE/INFLAMMATORY DISEASE SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 8d
17284291 METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATE SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1641 4
3783 4
1658 3
1654 3
1627 2
1622 2
1633 2
1647 2
1645 2
1657 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18545528 REMOVAL OF SERINE PROTEASES BY TREATMENT WITH FINELY DIVIDED SILICON DIOXIDE NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1656 §102 Final Rejection 75d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18537204 RNA BIOMARKERS FOR HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18535781 VEDOLIZUMAB FOR THE TREATMENT OF FISTULIZING CROHN'S DISEASE HADDAD, MAHER M 1641 Other Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
18522917 HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND AND USE THEREOF HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J 1627 §112 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18557836 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLS NGUYEN, NGHI V 1653 §101 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18379047 VIRAL INHIBITORS, THE SYNTHESIS THEREOF, AND INTERMEDIATES THERETO LAU, JONATHAN S 1693 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 11, 2023
18550571 PLASMA KALLIKREIN INHIBITORS ROBINSON, MIKHAIL O'DONNEL 1627 Other Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18550486 POLYCYCLIC INHIBITORS OF PLASMA KALLIKREIN ELENISTE, PIERRE PAUL 1622 §102 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18547809 COMPOSITION AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF FABRY DISEASE POPA, ILEANA 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18264150 SUPPORT FIXTURE FOR CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMNS KRCHA, MATTHEW D 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Aug 03, 2023
18266848 CONDITIONALLY BISPECIFIC BINDING PROTEINS BUTTICE, AUDREY L 1647 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18039137 FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM CONTAINER AND METHOD OF USE FARRAR, LAUREN PENG 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending May 26, 2023
18037834 FLUID DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS THEREOF LANGE, ERIC A 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18199216 NITROGEN-CONTAINING HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND AND USE OF SAME KOSACK, JOSEPH R 3991 Other Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18316988 TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH SEVERE VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE UNDERGOING ELECTIVE SURGERY BY ADMINISTRATION OF RECOMBINANT VWF COFFA, SERGIO 1658 Other Final Rejection 55d Pending May 12, 2023
18316151 POOLING DEVICE FOR SINGLE OR MULTIPLE MEDICAL CONTAINERS ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA 3781 Other Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18029026 PARATHYROID GLAND CELLS BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2023
18030901 THERAPEUTIC AGENT FOR IMMUNE/INFLAMMATORY DISEASE SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 1641 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 07, 2023
18025315 SUBSTITUTED PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES AS NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE RECEPTOR ALPHA 6 MODULATOR SANCHEZ, JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER 1622 §112 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Mar 08, 2023
18022669 INTERLEUKIN-2 MUTEINS AND USES THEREOF GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE 1647 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Feb 22, 2023
18160407 LIBRARIES OF GENETIC PACKAGES COMPRISING NOVEL HC CDR1, CDR2, AND CDR3 AND NOVEL LC CDR1, CDR2, AND CDR3 DESIGNS BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C 1684 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 27, 2023
18046450 FORMULATION FOR ANTI-ALPHA4BETA7 ANTIBODY KIM, YUNSOO 1641 Other Final Rejection 54d Pending Oct 13, 2022
17995615 NEEDLE CONNECTORS AND MODULAR NEEDLE CONNECTORS FOR MULTI-DOSE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS THEREOF GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 06, 2022
17916441 ADAMTS13 VARIANT, COMPOSITIONS, AND USES THEREOF ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §112 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17995198 Subcutaneous Port With Locking Member STIGELL, THEODORE J 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17915940 T CELL PROGENITOR PRODUCTION METHOD PRONZATI, GINA 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17906433 IMPLANTABLE CELL CHAMBER DEVICE AND USES THEREOF BECKHARDT, LYNDSEY MARIE 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022
17778611 T-CELL MASTER CELL BANK ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 Other Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending May 20, 2022
17745770 PLASMA KALLIKREIN INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATING HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA ATTACK KOLKER, DANIEL E 1645 Other Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending May 16, 2022
17769452 METHOD FOR EVALUATING DRUG TOXICITY MARTIN, RACHEL E 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2022
17672748 PLASMA KALLIKREIN INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATING HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA ATTACK OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2022
17285397 NUTRITION COMPOSITION BAUER, NICOLA MARIA 1621 §103 Non-Final OA 131d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2022
17622580 TRANSFECTION METHOD MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Dec 23, 2021
17556857 PURIFICATION OF FVIII FROM PLASMA USING SILICON OXIDE ADSORPTION ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2021
17554539 QD DOSING OF GIP RECEPTOR AGONIST PEPTIDE COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 1654 Other Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021
17596422 ANTIBODY PURIFICATION METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE 1657 Other Final Rejection 23d Pending Dec 09, 2021
17596421 METHODS OF PRODUCING AN ANTI-a4B7 ANTIBODY FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN 1643 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2021
17491813 EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF BRADYKININ-MEDIATED DISORDERS PETRASH, HILARY ANN 1644 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 01, 2021
17362191 METHODS OF PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT USING RECOMBINANT VWF (rVWF) AUDET, MAURY A 1654 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Jun 29, 2021
17284291 METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTIBODY-DRUG CONJUGATE SZPERKA, MICHAEL EDWARD 1641 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Apr 09, 2021
17169835 SEPARATION OF VWF AND VWF PROPEPTIDE BY CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHODS STEELE, AMBER D 1658 Other Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2021
17264720 FORMULATIONS FOR IMPROVED STABILITY OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN PARATHYROID HORMONE COFFA, SERGIO 1658 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2021
17263675 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CD3-POSITIVE CELL SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jan 27, 2021
17041783 SUBCUTANEOUS DOSING OF ANTI-CD38 ANTIBODIES BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2020
14407174 LIQUID PREPARATIONS OF AMINES AND ORGANIC ACIDS STABILIZED BY SALTS HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2014

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