Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BEAM THERAPEUTICS INC.

9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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.

6
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)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%)
6
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (11%)
2
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (44%)
§102 only2 (22%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

9
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.

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
REGA, KYLE THOMAS 2 62.4% +43.9%
BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE 1 26.0% +58.6%
NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1 73.1% +18.3%
SHTERENGARTS, SAMANTHA L 1 79.4% +7.9%
MOORE, SUSANNA 1 68.1% +31.8%
PATEL, SAGAR S 1 76.1% +33.8%
YU, DAVID TUYANG 1
DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1 56.5% +36.3%

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
18486913 ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME TO MODIFY A NUCLEOBASE IN A TARGET SEQUENCE BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE 70d 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
17430289 SPLICE ACCEPTOR SITE DISRUPTION OF A DISEASE-ASSOCIATED GENE USING ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS, INCLUDING FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE REGA, KYLE THOMAS 91d overdue
18486913 ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME TO MODIFY A NUCLEOBASE IN A TARGET SEQUENCE BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE 70d overdue
18460178 USES OF ADENOSINE BASE EDITORS NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 42d overdue
17430669 ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME TO MODIFY A NUCLEOBASE IN A TARGET SEQUENCE REGA, KYLE THOMAS 24d overdue
18211840 NANOMATERIALS COMPRISING CARBONATES PATEL, SAGAR S 17d overdue
18220874 IONIZABLE LIPIDS FOR NANOMATERIALS MOORE, SUSANNA 27d
17430274 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 1A DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1636 3
1657 1
1656 1
1623 1
1624 1
1626 1
1635 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18486913 ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME TO MODIFY A NUCLEOBASE IN A TARGET SEQUENCE BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18460178 USES OF ADENOSINE BASE EDITORS NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1656 Other Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2023
18220867 NANOMATERIALS COMPRISING AN IONIZABLE LIPID SHTERENGARTS, SAMANTHA L 1623 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18220874 IONIZABLE LIPIDS FOR NANOMATERIALS MOORE, SUSANNA 1624 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18211840 NANOMATERIALS COMPRISING CARBONATES PATEL, SAGAR S 1626 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18031547 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 1A YU, DAVID TUYANG 1635 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
17430669 ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME TO MODIFY A NUCLEOBASE IN A TARGET SEQUENCE REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2021
17430289 SPLICE ACCEPTOR SITE DISRUPTION OF A DISEASE-ASSOCIATED GENE USING ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS, INCLUDING FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1636 §112 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2021
17430274 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 1A DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 11, 2021

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