Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Design Therapeutics Inc.

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (50%)
3
Easy (50%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (17%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only3 (50%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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
KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1 58.2% +64.5%
MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y 1 70.9% +42.6%
SAEED, KAMAL A 1 83.8% +9.6%
HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1 51.6% +27.9%
WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 1 82.4% +19.5%
VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN 1 84.0% +10.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18450775 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE SAEED, KAMAL A
18260549 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR TREATING FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA WILLIS, DOUGLAS M
18256864 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR MODULATING MYOTONIC DYSTROPY 1 VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17759944 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE HAVLIN, ROBERT H 71d
18600510 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE
18590521 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y
18260549 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR TREATING FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA WILLIS, DOUGLAS M
18256864 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR MODULATING MYOTONIC DYSTROPY 1 VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1626 2
1652 1
1624 1
1622 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18600510 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE §102§103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Mar 08, 2024
18590521 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y 1652 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2024
18450775 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE SAEED, KAMAL A 1626 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2023
17759944 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §102 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18260549 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR TREATING FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA WILLIS, DOUGLAS M 1624 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 06, 2023
18256864 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR MODULATING MYOTONIC DYSTROPY 1 VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN 1622 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 09, 2023

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