Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH

27 pending office actions • 21 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
4
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
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. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

1
Hard (4%)
13
Medium (48%)
3
Easy (11%)
10
Unknown (37%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only13 (48%)
§112 only3 (11%)
No statute on record10 (37%)

Industry Mix

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

26
Life Sciences
96% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% 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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 2 62.8% +51.3%
LOVE, TREVOR M 1 43.1% +25.4%
BERRY, LAYLA D 1 65.9% +8.6%
TRAN, SUSAN T 1 62.8% +36.0%
LIU, SUE XU 1 20.6% +15.4%
MIKNIS, ZACHARY J 1 68.5% +32.6%
MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1 74.3% +30.6%
JAUHARI, SACHI 1 0.0% +0.0%
MOTEVALLI, OROD 1
MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K 1 60.7% +32.1%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17999122 VIRAL VECTORS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR REGULATED GENE THERAPY SHIN, DANA H 23d overdue
18544532 SOLID DISPERSION OF A HER2 INHIBITOR LIU, SUE XU 26d
18450487 COMBINATION THERAPY COMPRISING LONG ACTING GLP-1/GLUCAGON AND NPY2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS JAUHARI, SACHI 55d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18353133 ANTI-IL-36R ANTIBODY FORMULATIONS MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K 44d overdue
18746567 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, METHODS FOR TREATING AND USES THEREOF LOVE, TREVOR M 28d overdue
18508346 BINDING MOLECULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 5d
18515654 VIRAL VECTOR FOR THE TARGETED TRANSFER OF GENES IN THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD MIKNIS, ZACHARY J 9d
17414970 BIFUNCTIONAL ANTI-PD-1/IL-7 MOLECULE KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 16d
18468885 HETEROAROMATIC CARBOXAMIDE DERIVATIVES AS PLASMA KALLIKREIN INHIBITORS MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 22d
18544532 SOLID DISPERSION OF A HER2 INHIBITOR LIU, SUE XU 26d
18413822 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM, PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION, METHODS FOR TREATING AND USES THEREOF TRAN, SUSAN T 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1674 3
1624 3
1642 2
1631 2
1611 1
1693 1
1615 1
1616 1
1658 1
1654 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18746567 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, METHODS FOR TREATING AND USES THEREOF LOVE, TREVOR M 1611 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18597314 METHODS OF TREATMENT AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS USING AN SGLT-2 INHIBITOR AND A NEUROLEPTIC AGENT BERRY, LAYLA D 1693 Other Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18413822 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM, PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION, METHODS FOR TREATING AND USES THEREOF TRAN, SUSAN T 1615 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jan 16, 2024
18544532 SOLID DISPERSION OF A HER2 INHIBITOR LIU, SUE XU 1616 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18515654 VIRAL VECTOR FOR THE TARGETED TRANSFER OF GENES IN THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD MIKNIS, ZACHARY J 1658 §112 Final Rejection 9d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18508346 BINDING MOLECULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 14, 2023
18468885 HETEROAROMATIC CARBOXAMIDE DERIVATIVES AS PLASMA KALLIKREIN INHIBITORS MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1624 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18450487 COMBINATION THERAPY COMPRISING LONG ACTING GLP-1/GLUCAGON AND NPY2 RECEPTOR AGONISTS JAUHARI, SACHI 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 16, 2023
18362034 PIPERIDINYLPYRIDINYLCARBONITRILE DERIVATIVES AS INHIBITORS OF GLUTAMINYL-PEPTIDE CYCLOTRANSFERASE AND GLUTAMINYL-PEPTIDE CYCLOTRANSFERASE LIKE PROTEIN MOTEVALLI, OROD 1628 Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18353133 ANTI-IL-36R ANTIBODY FORMULATIONS MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K 1674 Other Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18221936 Cyclopentathiophene Carboxamide Derivatives as Platelet Activating Factor Receptor Antagonists MOORE, SUSANNA 1624 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jul 14, 2023
18337693 MULTI-SPECIFIC BINDING PROTEINS FOR CANCER TREATMENT GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 Other Final Rejection 5d Pending Jun 20, 2023
18334454 PERFUSION MEDIUM BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 14, 2023
18039433 ADMINISTRATION DEVICE FOR IN PARTICULAR INTRAVITREAL ADMINISTRATION OF A FLUID BRANDT, DAVID NELSON 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending May 30, 2023
18298882 COMBINATION TREATMENT SHIBUYA, MARK LANCE 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 11, 2023
18185493 ANG2-BINDING MOLECULES MOSELEY II, NELSON B 1642 Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18019771 DIFLUOROMETHYL-PYRIDIN-2-YL TRIAZOLES HABTE, KAHSAY 1624 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18057421 CELL CULTURE MEDIUM JOHNSON, KARA D 1632 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2022
17999122 VIRAL VECTORS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR REGULATED GENE THERAPY SHIN, DANA H 1635 §101 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2022
17914773 INHIBITORS OF TRPC6 FOR TREATING RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS RZECZYCKI, PHILLIP MATTHEW 1625 Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17914373 USE OF BIOMARKERS IN THE TREATMENT OF FIBROTIC CONDITIONS BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 26, 2022
17904487 MAMMALIAN CELL CULTURE PROCESSES MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17686880 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM, PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION, METHODS FOR TREATING AND USES THEREOF TIEN, LUCY MINYU 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022
17530559 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM, PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION, METHODS FOR TREATING AND USES THEREOF KASSA, TIGABU 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Nov 19, 2021
17525433 CELL ENGINEERING USING RNAs HOLLAND, PAUL J 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 12, 2021
17608328 VIRAL VECTORS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF PF-ILD AND IPF ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1636 Other Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2021
17414970 BIFUNCTIONAL ANTI-PD-1/IL-7 MOLECULE KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M 1674 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jun 17, 2021

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