Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Crispr Therapeutics AG

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (5)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (43%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
§102 only1 (14%)
No statute on record3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOLLAND, PAUL J 1 57.5% +64.7%
METCALF, MATTHEW CURRAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN 1 62.3% +50.3%
ZARA, JANE J 1 70.8% +15.9%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1 63.3% +42.1%
VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1 67.7% +39.0%
CLARKE, TRENT R 1 41.2% +26.0%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17906471 T-CELL BISPECIFIC BINDING PROTEINS OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 126d overdue
17491761 MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR ENGINEERING CELLS AND USES THEREOF IN IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 80d overdue
17934799 HIGH PURITY gRNA SYNTHESIS PROCESS ZARA, JANE J 30d overdue
16488149 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN/KEXIN TYPE 9 (PCSK9)-RELATED DISORDERS CLARKE, TRENT R 1d overdue
18444368 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENE EDITING HOLLAND, PAUL J 33d
18179201 MULTIPLEX GENE EDITED CELLS FOR CD70-DIRECTED CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1656 1
1647 1
1643 1
1637 1
1645 1
1633 1
1651 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18444368 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR GENE EDITING HOLLAND, PAUL J 1656 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18188406 ANTI-CD83 CAR-T CELLS WITH REGNASE-1 AND/OR TGFBRII DISRUPTION METCALF, MATTHEW CURRAN 1647 Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18179201 MULTIPLEX GENE EDITED CELLS FOR CD70-DIRECTED CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN 1643 Other Final Rejection 40d Pending Mar 06, 2023
17934799 HIGH PURITY gRNA SYNTHESIS PROCESS ZARA, JANE J 1637 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17906471 T-CELL BISPECIFIC BINDING PROTEINS OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022
17491761 MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR ENGINEERING CELLS AND USES THEREOF IN IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1633 Other Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2021
16488149 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN/KEXIN TYPE 9 (PCSK9)-RELATED DISORDERS CLARKE, TRENT R 1651 §102 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2019

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