Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Almac Discovery Limited has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile therefore shows distributed examination across all listed assignments.
The breadth of assignments calls for structured portfolio management. Counsel should preserve consistent scientific terminology and disclosure positions while analyzing each examiner’s objections independently. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical claims can turn on mechanisms, compounds, uses, or experimental support, so each response should identify the precise basis for the claimed distinction. The separate art units may require different prior-art framing and amendment choices. A central review process can reduce inconsistency without treating the matters as interchangeable.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE | 1 | 65.1% | +41.1% |
| REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | 1 | 60.0% | +49.4% |
| HOPKINS, SAMANTHA LAKE | 1 | 60.7% | +61.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17620819 | ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVES | HOPKINS, SAMANTHA LAKE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17760329 | USP7 INHIBITOR FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | 22d |
| 18729403 | HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS AS UBIQUITIN SPECIFIC PROTEASE 7 INHIBITORS | HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE | — |
| 17620819 | ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVES | HOPKINS, SAMANTHA LAKE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1621 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| 1641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729403 | HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS AS UBIQUITIN SPECIFIC PROTEASE 7 INHIBITORS | HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE | 1621 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 17760329 | USP7 INHIBITOR FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | REILLY, SOPHIA JANE | 1627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
| 17620819 | ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVES | HOPKINS, SAMANTHA LAKE | 1641 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAlmac Discovery Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kendall Nicole Heitmeier has the most, with 1 of Almac Discovery Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
