Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Beam Therapeutics Inc.

12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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.

3
Hard (25%)
6
Medium (50%)
3
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (8%)
§103 only5 (42%)
§112 only2 (17%)
Double-patenting only1 (8%)
Double-patenting + other1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

12
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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 2 60.3% +35.7%
SONG, JIANFENG 1 56.2% +33.1%
BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1 41.7% +69.8%
YU, DELPHINUS DOU YI 1 50.0% +0.0%
PERSONS, JENNA L 1 50.0% +60.0%
KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1 58.2% +64.5%
REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1 61.8% +40.7%
GIBBS, TERRA C 1 63.9% +10.4%
ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 1 56.0% +51.4%
RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1 40.3% +50.7%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18746791 NANOMATERIALS COMPRISING TETRAVALENT LIPID COMPOUNDS BAEK, BONG-SOOK
18283148 NOVEL CRISPR ENZYMES, METHODS, SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF PERSONS, JENNA L
17638683 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR NON-TOXIC CONDITIONING REGA, KYLE THOMAS

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17430274 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE TYPE 1A DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 70d
19649581 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE
18746810 IONIZABLE AMINE LIPIDS AND LIPID NANOPARTICLES SONG, JIANFENG
18746791 NANOMATERIALS COMPRISING TETRAVALENT LIPID COMPOUNDS BAEK, BONG-SOOK
18283148 NOVEL CRISPR ENZYMES, METHODS, SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF PERSONS, JENNA L
17638757 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EDITING A MUTATION TO PERMIT TRANSCRIPTION OR EXPRESSION KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE
17638683 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR NON-TOXIC CONDITIONING REGA, KYLE THOMAS
17610119 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS B GIBBS, TERRA C

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1636 4
1635 3
1633 2
1613 1
1611 1
1637 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19649581 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 16, 2026
18746810 IONIZABLE AMINE LIPIDS AND LIPID NANOPARTICLES SONG, JIANFENG 1613 §102§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2024
18746791 NANOMATERIALS COMPRISING TETRAVALENT LIPID COMPOUNDS BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1611 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2024
18474969 ADENOSINE DEAMINASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF YU, DELPHINUS DOU YI 1636 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2023
18283148 NOVEL CRISPR ENZYMES, METHODS, SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF PERSONS, JENNA L 1637 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2023
17638757 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EDITING A MUTATION TO PERMIT TRANSCRIPTION OR EXPRESSION KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1635 DP Final Rejection Pending Feb 25, 2022
17638683 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR NON-TOXIC CONDITIONING REGA, KYLE THOMAS 1636 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 25, 2022
17610119 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS B GIBBS, TERRA C 1635 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 09, 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
17423428 MODIFIED IMMUNE CELLS HAVING ENHANCED ANTI-NEOPLASIA ACTIVITY AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSION RESISTANCE ABUZEINEH, HANAN ISAM 1633 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 15, 2021
17054348 METHODS OF EDITING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM USING PROGRAMMABLE BASE EDITOR SYSTEMS RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1635 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2020
17054393 METHODS OF SUPPRESSING PATHOGENIC MUTATIONS USING PROGRAMMABLE BASE EDITOR SYSTEMS POPA, ILEANA 1633 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2020

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