Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BIONTECH SE

14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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%)
11
Medium (79%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (21%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (57%)
§102 only2 (14%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
No statute on record3 (21%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 1 45.8% +50.0%
PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1 69.1% +18.4%
LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 1 36.4% +70.1%
JUEDES, AMY E 1 44.5% +41.0%
HADDAD, MAHER M 1 50.4% +54.3%
NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1 33.3% +41.4%
VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1 38.9% +57.3%
HERRMANN, JOSEPH S 1 63.4% +41.4%
SHOMER, ISAAC 1 63.1% +30.7%
SPICER, JENINE MARIE 1 50.9% +18.3%

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
18071705 RNA FORMULATION FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY SHOMER, ISAAC 80d overdue
18246533 PREPARATION AND STORAGE OF LIPOSOMAL RNA FORMULATIONS SUITABLE FOR THERAPY NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 60d overdue
18268594 Treatment Schedule for Cytokine Proteins GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 31d overdue
18268124 THERAPEUTIC RNA FOR TREATING CANCER LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 4d overdue
18258343 Therapeutic RNA for Treating Cancer PUTTLITZ, KARL J 26d
18044955 AGENTS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED DELIVERY TO CELLS VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 29d
17920569 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE SPICER, JENINE MARIE 55d
18134844 NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING HUMAN ANTIBODIES TO SIALYL-LEWIS A HADDAD, MAHER M 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1637 2
1641 2
1646 1
1644 1
1615 1
1638 1
3746 1
1612 1
3736 1
1674 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18268594 Treatment Schedule for Cytokine Proteins GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 1637 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18258343 Therapeutic RNA for Treating Cancer PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1646 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 20, 2023
18268124 THERAPEUTIC RNA FOR TREATING CANCER LIPPOLIS, ALEXANDRA ROSE 1637 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18038818 ANTIBODY AND TAXANE COMBINATION THERAPY JUEDES, AMY E 1644 DPOther Final Rejection 75d Pending May 25, 2023
18134844 NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING HUMAN ANTIBODIES TO SIALYL-LEWIS A HADDAD, MAHER M 1641 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 14, 2023
18246533 PREPARATION AND STORAGE OF LIPOSOMAL RNA FORMULATIONS SUITABLE FOR THERAPY NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1615 §102 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18044955 AGENTS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED DELIVERY TO CELLS VAN BUREN, LAUREN K 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 10, 2023
18180073 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS USING PERISTALTIC PUMPS AND DAMPENERS HERRMANN, JOSEPH S 3746 §103 Final Rejection 75d Pending Mar 07, 2023
18071705 RNA FORMULATION FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY SHOMER, ISAAC 1612 Other Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
17920569 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE SPICER, JENINE MARIE 3736 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Oct 21, 2022
17915567 RNA COMPOSITIONS TARGETING CLAUDIN-18.2 LI, RUIXIANG 1674 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17913743 RNA PARTICLES COMPRISING POLYSARCOSINE POPA, ILEANA 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17289602 FORMULATIONS OF MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES BINDING PD-L1 AND CD137 KIM, YUNSOO 1641 Other Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2021
16318895 Selecting Neoepitopes as Disease-Specific Targets for Therapy with Enhanced Efficacy GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jan 18, 2019

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