Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Bms

14 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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%)
8
Medium (57%)
5
Easy (36%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (43%)
§112 only4 (29%)
Double-patenting only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other2 (14%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
93% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
7% 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
WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 2 57.4% +42.6%
ZOU, NIANXIANG 1 64.0% +24.8%
DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1 56.8% +35.4%
DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 1 64.2% +43.7%
ARON, KIMBERLY A 1 54.7% +34.9%
DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 1 100.0% +0.0%
ZHU, JIANJIAN 1 60.0% +83.2%
CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1 72.6% +18.3%
CANELLA, KAREN A 1 62.5% +32.5%
SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1 70.0% +11.1%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18365950 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS SPECIFIC FOR GPRC5D AND BCMA DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE

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
17850875 METHODS FOR ISOLATING, CULTURING, AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERING IMMUNE CELL POPULATIONS FOR ADOPTIVE THERAPY WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 31d overdue
18019460 ANTI-IDIOTYPIC ANTIBODIES TO ROR1-TARGETED BINDING DOMAINS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 8d overdue
18488850 EPIGENETIC ANALYSIS OF CELL THERAPY AND RELATED METHODS DAUNER, JOSEPH G 47d
18188380 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DOSING IN ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY CANELLA, KAREN A 63d
18035280 CAR T CELL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE HAD PRIOR ANTI-CANCER ALKYLATOR THERAPY CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 70d
19312145 METHODS FOR ISOLATING, CULTURING, AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERING IMMUNE CELL POPULATIONS FOR ADOPTIVE THERAPY WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA
18283435 METHOD TO ASSESS POTENCY OF VIRAL VECTOR PARTICLES ZOU, NIANXIANG
18284725 METHODS FOR DOSING AND TREATMENT WITH A COMBINATION OF A CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR THERAPY AND A CAR T CELL THERAPY DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1634 2
1633 2
1643 2
1682 1
1645 1
1644 1
1625 1
1647 1
1631 1
1641 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19312145 METHODS FOR ISOLATING, CULTURING, AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERING IMMUNE CELL POPULATIONS FOR ADOPTIVE THERAPY WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1634 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 27, 2025
18283435 METHOD TO ASSESS POTENCY OF VIRAL VECTOR PARTICLES ZOU, NIANXIANG §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2024
18488850 EPIGENETIC ANALYSIS OF CELL THERAPY AND RELATED METHODS DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1682 §103 Final Rejection 47d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18284725 METHODS FOR DOSING AND TREATMENT WITH A COMBINATION OF A CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR THERAPY AND A CAR T CELL THERAPY DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 1645 DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 28, 2023
18371302 METHODS FOR TRANSDUCTION AND CELL PROCESSING ARON, KIMBERLY A 1633 Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 21, 2023
18365950 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS SPECIFIC FOR GPRC5D AND BCMA DUNN, LINDSAY MICHELLE 1644 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 04, 2023
18035277 CELLS EXPRESSING A CHIMERIC RECEPTOR FROM A MODIFIED INVARIANT CD3 IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUPERFAMILY CHAIN LOCUS AND RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS ZHU, JIANJIAN 1633 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2023
18035280 CAR T CELL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE HAD PRIOR ANTI-CANCER ALKYLATOR THERAPY CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 03, 2023
18188380 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DOSING IN ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY CANELLA, KAREN A 1643 DPOther Non-Final OA 63d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18019460 ANTI-IDIOTYPIC ANTIBODIES TO ROR1-TARGETED BINDING DOMAINS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1647 §112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2023
17799239 BCMA-DIRECTED CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR T CELL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS AND USES THEREOF GRABER, JAMES J 1631 §112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2022
17799254 CD19-DIRECTED CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR T CELL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS AND USES THEREOF EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA 1643 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2022
17850875 METHODS FOR ISOLATING, CULTURING, AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERING IMMUNE CELL POPULATIONS FOR ADOPTIVE THERAPY WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1634 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2022
17294355 METHODS OF DOSING ENGINEERED T CELLS FOR THE TREATMENT OF B CELL MALIGNANCIES TAYLOR, LIA ELAN 1641 §112 Final Rejection Pending May 14, 2021

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