Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Biontech SE

19 pending office actions • 12 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

7
Hard (37%)
8
Medium (42%)
4
Easy (21%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (32%)
§112 only2 (11%)
Double-patenting only2 (11%)
Double-patenting + other2 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (37%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
74% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
3
Business / Other
16% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MISHRA, DEEPA 1 29.5% +32.2%
PERSONS, JENNA L 1 50.0% +60.0%
ROBINSON, HOPE A 1 67.6% +43.3%
GUSTILO, ESTELLA M 1 53.2% +36.8%
CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT 1 56.1% +29.7%
AEDER, SEAN E 1 56.9% +19.9%
WEIDNER, ADAM M 1 63.6% +34.2%
PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1 69.1% +18.5%
GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 1 46.2% +54.1%
MACH, ANDRE 1 45.9% +53.2%

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18268594 Treatment Schedule for Cytokine Proteins GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 31d overdue
16318895 Selecting Neoepitopes as Disease-Specific Targets for Therapy with Enhanced Efficacy GODDARD, LAURA B 19d
18258343 Therapeutic RNA for Treating Cancer PUTTLITZ, KARL J 26d
17920569 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE SPICER, JENINE MARIE 55d
18837311 NOVEL THERAPEUTIC USES OF GARDNERELLA ENDOLYSINS MISHRA, DEEPA
18363136 HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO GANGLIOSIDE GD2 WEIDNER, ADAM M
18036676 ENHANCED FORMULATION STABILIZATION AND IMPROVED LYOPHILIZATION PROCESSES MACH, ANDRE
18036677 LNP COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RNA AND METHODS FOR PREPARING, STORING AND USING THE SAME DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE

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
18268594 Treatment Schedule for Cytokine Proteins GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 31d overdue
18258343 Therapeutic RNA for Treating Cancer PUTTLITZ, KARL J 26d
18837311 NOVEL THERAPEUTIC USES OF GARDNERELLA ENDOLYSINS MISHRA, DEEPA
18724236 LIPID-BASED FORMULATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF RNA PERSONS, JENNA L
18708333 RNA ENCODING PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASE AND USE THEREOF FOR TREATING BACTERIAL INFECTION ROBINSON, HOPE A
18696689 MULTISPECIFIC BINDING AGENTS AGAINST PD-L1 AND CD137 IN COMBINATION THERAPY GUSTILO, ESTELLA M
18516006 Therapeutic RNA CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT
18549346 MULTISPECIFIC BINDING AGENTS AGAINST CD40 AND CD137 IN THERAPY AEDER, SEAN E

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1646 2
1642 2
1615 2
1674 2
1699 1
1652 1
1637 1
1636 1
1644 1
3746 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18837311 NOVEL THERAPEUTIC USES OF GARDNERELLA ENDOLYSINS MISHRA, DEEPA DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2024
18724236 LIPID-BASED FORMULATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF RNA PERSONS, JENNA L 1699 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18708333 RNA ENCODING PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASE AND USE THEREOF FOR TREATING BACTERIAL INFECTION ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §112 Final Rejection Pending May 08, 2024
18696689 MULTISPECIFIC BINDING AGENTS AGAINST PD-L1 AND CD137 IN COMBINATION THERAPY GUSTILO, ESTELLA M 1646 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2024
18516006 Therapeutic RNA CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2023
18549346 MULTISPECIFIC BINDING AGENTS AGAINST CD40 AND CD137 IN THERAPY AEDER, SEAN E 1642 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2023
18363136 HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO GANGLIOSIDE GD2 WEIDNER, ADAM M §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2023
18258343 Therapeutic RNA for Treating Cancer PUTTLITZ, KARL J 1646 §103§112Other Final Rejection 26d Pending Jun 20, 2023
18268594 Treatment Schedule for Cytokine Proteins GOMEZ RODRIGUEZ, JULIO WASHINGTON 1637 §102§103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18036676 ENHANCED FORMULATION STABILIZATION AND IMPROVED LYOPHILIZATION PROCESSES MACH, ANDRE 1615 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2023
18036681 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PARTICLES AND MRNA AND METHODS FOR PREPARING AND STORING THE SAME LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1615 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 12, 2023
18036677 LNP COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RNA AND METHODS FOR PREPARING, STORING AND USING THE SAME DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1636 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2023
18035172 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES DIRECTED AGAINST PROGRAMMED DEATH-1 PROTEIN AND THEIR USE IN MEDICINE SKELDING, ZACHARY S 1644 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 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
17920569 CORONAVIRUS VACCINE SPICER, JENINE MARIE 3736 §103§112 Final Rejection 55d Pending Oct 21, 2022
17915567 RNA COMPOSITIONS TARGETING CLAUDIN-18.2 LI, RUIXIANG 1674 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17913743 RNA PARTICLES COMPRISING POLYSARCOSINE POPA, ILEANA 1633 §103Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17817033 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AGAINST CD40 AND CD137 KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Aug 03, 2022
16318895 Selecting Neoepitopes as Disease-Specific Targets for Therapy with Enhanced Efficacy GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §103§112 Final Rejection 19d Pending Jan 18, 2019

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