Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BIONTECH SE currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity spans 3 distinct art units, indicating technical diversity in their pending applications.
ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 4 examiners handling 4 actions, the workload is spread across the 3 art units involved in the company's current patent filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN | 1 | 60.3% | +23.6% |
| AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | 1 | 36.4% | +42.4% |
| SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1 | 37.8% | +43.2% |
| FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN | 1 | 60.6% | +53.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334820 | TISSUE-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY | ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN | 34d |
| 18191555 | HLA-BASED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17495571 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTION OF HLA CLASS II-SPECIFIC EPITOPES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CD4+ T CELLS | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 43d overdue |
| 17599468 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREPARING T CELL COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN | 2d overdue |
| 18334820 | TISSUE-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY | ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN | 34d |
| 18191555 | HLA-BASED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1641 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18334820 | TISSUE-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY | ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN | 1641 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18191555 | HLA-BASED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17495571 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTION OF HLA CLASS II-SPECIFIC EPITOPES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CD4+ T CELLS | SABOUR, GHAZAL | 1686 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2021 |
| 17599468 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREPARING T CELL COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN | 1643 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2021 |
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