Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Woodward Specialty LLC

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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 (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (25%)
Double-patenting + other2 (50%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
1
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.

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
LUARCA, MARGARET M 1 74.6% +18.1%
LEE, WILLIAM Y 1 48.2% +34.0%
DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA 1 74.5% +25.8%
BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1 62.8% +33.2%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18012496 LOW-DOSE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF GHRH ANALOGS AND USES THEREOF BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 91d overdue
18346244 NASAL DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA 10d overdue
18505101 Nozzles for Nasal Drug Delivery LUARCA, MARGARET M
18482856 REPEATED ADMINISTRATION OF DIHYDROERGOTAMINE FOR TREATMENT OF FREQUENT MIGRAINE HEADACHES LEE, WILLIAM Y

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1623 1
3785 1
1654 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18505101 Nozzles for Nasal Drug Delivery LUARCA, MARGARET M §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2023
18482856 REPEATED ADMINISTRATION OF DIHYDROERGOTAMINE FOR TREATMENT OF FREQUENT MIGRAINE HEADACHES LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 07, 2023
18346244 NASAL DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE DIXON, ANNETTE FREDRICKA 3785 Other Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 02, 2023
18012496 LOW-DOSE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF GHRH ANALOGS AND USES THEREOF BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1654 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022

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