Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

5
Hard (83%)
1
Medium (17%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (33%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

6
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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1 65.5% +55.1%
SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1 57.4% +36.7%
ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1 32.4% +49.2%
MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1 69.7% +41.8%
TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1 48.2% +45.5%
REYNOLDS, FRED H 1 33.1% +39.0%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17634034 Hydrophobic Peptide Salts for Extended Release Compositions REYNOLDS, FRED H 334d overdue
18273430 AAV PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR AAV VIRAL PARTICLES WITH IMPROVED INFECTIVITY ALLEN, MICHAEL D 22d overdue
18573298 COMPOSITIONS OF BETA-HEXOSAMINIDASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 4d overdue
18311789 METHOD OF TREATING DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 26d
18785340 Use of C-Type Natriuretic Peptide Variants to Treat Skeletal Dysplasia HELLMAN, KRISTINA M

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17634034 Hydrophobic Peptide Salts for Extended Release Compositions REYNOLDS, FRED H 334d overdue
18273430 AAV PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR AAV VIRAL PARTICLES WITH IMPROVED INFECTIVITY ALLEN, MICHAEL D 22d overdue
18573298 COMPOSITIONS OF BETA-HEXOSAMINIDASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 4d overdue
18311789 METHOD OF TREATING DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 26d
18785340 Use of C-Type Natriuretic Peptide Variants to Treat Skeletal Dysplasia HELLMAN, KRISTINA M
18192480 DYSTROPHIN EXON SKIPPING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TRAN, CHRISTINA L

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1654 1
1657 1
1671 1
1635 1
1637 1
1658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18785340 Use of C-Type Natriuretic Peptide Variants to Treat Skeletal Dysplasia HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1654 §101§102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18573298 COMPOSITIONS OF BETA-HEXOSAMINIDASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1657 §103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18273430 AAV PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR AAV VIRAL PARTICLES WITH IMPROVED INFECTIVITY ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1671 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2023
18311789 METHOD OF TREATING DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1635 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 03, 2023
18192480 DYSTROPHIN EXON SKIPPING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1637 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Mar 29, 2023
17634034 Hydrophobic Peptide Salts for Extended Release Compositions REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §101§102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 334d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2022

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