Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Denali Therapeutics Inc.

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)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.

7
Hard (70%)
3
Medium (30%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (10%)
§103 only1 (10%)
Double-patenting + other2 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 1 74.6% +15.6%
LIU, XIAO 1 88.6% +12.0%
WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY 1 62.3% +20.3%
LU, CHENG 1 53.7% +66.2%
COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN 1 83.3% +26.2%
ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1 32.4% +49.2%
CHANDRA, GYAN 1 71.3% +27.4%
LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1 56.6% +41.3%
AEDER, SEAN E 1 56.9% +19.9%
SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1 65.7% +46.8%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17797644 METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUNTER SYNDROME CHANDRA, GYAN 37d overdue
18701573 MICROGLIAL CELL MORPHOMETRY LIU, XIAO 19d overdue
18646220 CRYSTALLINE FORMS OF (S)-5-BENZYL-N-(5-METHYL-4-OXO-2,3,4,5-TETRAHYDROPYRIDO [3,2-B][1,4]OXAZEPIN-3-YL)-4H-1,2,4-TRIAZOLE-3-CARBOXAMIDE COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 16d overdue
18248818 METHODS FOR TREATING AND MONITORING FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN 15d overdue
17296506 METHODS FOR TREATING DYSREGULATED LIPID METABOLISM AEDER, SEAN E 15d overdue
17819182 ENGINEERED ANTI-HER2 BISPECIFIC PROTEINS ALLEN, MICHAEL D 8d overdue
18276823 ANTI-TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF LU, CHENG 46d

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
17178595 ANTI-HER2 POLYPEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 79d overdue
17797644 METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUNTER SYNDROME CHANDRA, GYAN 37d overdue
18701573 MICROGLIAL CELL MORPHOMETRY LIU, XIAO 19d overdue
18646220 CRYSTALLINE FORMS OF (S)-5-BENZYL-N-(5-METHYL-4-OXO-2,3,4,5-TETRAHYDROPYRIDO [3,2-B][1,4]OXAZEPIN-3-YL)-4H-1,2,4-TRIAZOLE-3-CARBOXAMIDE COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 16d overdue
18248818 METHODS FOR TREATING AND MONITORING FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN 15d overdue
17296506 METHODS FOR TREATING DYSREGULATED LIPID METABOLISM AEDER, SEAN E 15d overdue
17819182 ENGINEERED ANTI-HER2 BISPECIFIC PROTEINS ALLEN, MICHAEL D 8d overdue
18276823 ANTI-TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF LU, CHENG 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1642 2
1624 1
2664 1
1627 1
1797 1
1671 1
1674 1
1615 1
1643 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18646220 CRYSTALLINE FORMS OF (S)-5-BENZYL-N-(5-METHYL-4-OXO-2,3,4,5-TETRAHYDROPYRIDO [3,2-B][1,4]OXAZEPIN-3-YL)-4H-1,2,4-TRIAZOLE-3-CARBOXAMIDE COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY 1624 §102§103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2024
18701573 MICROGLIAL CELL MORPHOMETRY LIU, XIAO 2664 §103§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18288734 METHODS FOR TREATING AND MONITORING PARKINSON'S DISEASE WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY 1627 §102§103DP Non-Final OA 83d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18276823 ANTI-TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF LU, CHENG 1642 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 46d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18248818 METHODS FOR TREATING AND MONITORING FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN 1797 §101§103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
17819182 ENGINEERED ANTI-HER2 BISPECIFIC PROTEINS ALLEN, MICHAEL D 1671 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2022
17797644 METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUNTER SYNDROME CHANDRA, GYAN 1674 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2022
17614842 MODIFIED RELEASE FORMULATION OF A PYRIMIDINYLAMINO-PYRAZOLE COMPOUND, AND METHODS OF TREATMENT LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1615 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Nov 29, 2021
17296506 METHODS FOR TREATING DYSREGULATED LIPID METABOLISM AEDER, SEAN E 1642 §103§112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 24, 2021
17178595 ANTI-HER2 POLYPEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 §103DP Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Feb 18, 2021

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