Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Denali Therapeutics Inc. is navigating 7 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners, which shows a distributed prosecution landscape where no examiner is managing multiple pending files simultaneously. The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units, reflecting a range of biotechnological or pharmaceutical claims that require specialized review across different USPTO divisions.
The busiest examiner identified is COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY, who accounts for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total volume of actions, the workload is split among the various examiners. This distribution suggests that the prosecution strategy must be adapted for different individual examiner styles across the 4 distinct art units involved. The breadth of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's intellectual property covers several specialized sub-sectors within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY | 1 | 74.9% | +15.5% |
| JACKSON, SHAWQUIA | 1 | 78.0% | -3.3% |
| LU, CHENG | 1 | 54.1% | +64.1% |
| CHANDRA, GYAN | 1 | 71.3% | +27.5% |
| LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1 | 58.2% | +40.0% |
| AEDER, SEAN E | 1 | 57.0% | +19.9% |
| SHUPE, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 66.2% | +44.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 |
| 17296506 | METHODS FOR TREATING DYSREGULATED LIPID METABOLISM | AEDER, SEAN E | 15d overdue |
| 18276823 | ANTI-TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR FUSION PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LU, CHENG | 46d |
| 17614842 | MODIFIED RELEASE FORMULATION OF A PYRIMIDINYLAMINO-PYRAZOLE COMPOUND, AND METHODS OF TREATMENT | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 62d |
| 18889058 | Kinase Inhibitors and Uses Thereof | COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1642 | 2 |
| 1674 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18889058 | Kinase Inhibitors and Uses Thereof | COLEMAN, BRENDA LIBBY | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18812872 | COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | JACKSON, SHAWQUIA | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 17797644 | METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HUNTER SYNDROME | CHANDRA, GYAN | 1674 | §103DP | 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 | Final Rejection | 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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