Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

CUREVAC SE

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

3
Hard (50%)
2
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (17%)
§102 only1 (17%)
Double-patenting only1 (17%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1 36.1% +64.0%
MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE 1 50.0% +73.0%
BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 1 63.9% +30.3%
CHEN, STACY BROWN 1 66.0% +40.4%
ARIETI, RUTH SOPHIA 1 45.3% +72.1%
SHIN, DANA H 1 27.0% +27.4%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18183082 RNA ENCODING A TUMOR ANTIGEN SHIN, DANA H 58d overdue
18415477 ARTIFICIAL NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 11d overdue
18705499 IMPROVED CIRCULAR RNA FOR EXPRESSING THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL
18283601 IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS CHEN, STACY BROWN

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
18183082 RNA ENCODING A TUMOR ANTIGEN SHIN, DANA H 58d overdue
18415477 ARTIFICIAL NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 11d overdue
18705499 IMPROVED CIRCULAR RNA FOR EXPRESSING THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL
18293593 CAP ANALOGS HAVING AN ACYCLIC LINKER TO THE GUANINE DERIVATIVE NUCLEOBASE MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE
18283601 IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS CHEN, STACY BROWN
18315781 METHOD FOR PRODUCING RNA MOLECULE COMPOSITIONS ARIETI, RUTH SOPHIA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1635 2
1632 1
1672 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18705499 IMPROVED CIRCULAR RNA FOR EXPRESSING THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2024
18293593 CAP ANALOGS HAVING AN ACYCLIC LINKER TO THE GUANINE DERIVATIVE NUCLEOBASE MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18415477 ARTIFICIAL NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 1632 §103§112 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18283601 IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS CHEN, STACY BROWN 1672 §101§102DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 22, 2023
18315781 METHOD FOR PRODUCING RNA MOLECULE COMPOSITIONS ARIETI, RUTH SOPHIA 1635 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending May 11, 2023
18183082 RNA ENCODING A TUMOR ANTIGEN SHIN, DANA H 1635 DP Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2023

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