Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Foghorn Therapeutics Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 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%)
1
Medium (25%)
1
Easy (25%)
2
Unknown (50%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (25%)
§112 only1 (25%)
No statute on record2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1 71.3% +11.8%
HABTE, KAHSAY 1 84.9% +7.3%
BAUER, NICOLA MARIA 1 59.6% +41.8%
SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1 71.4% +0.0%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18519533 COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 26d overdue
18253541 COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF BAUER, NICOLA MARIA 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1624 2
1626 1
1621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18519533 COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1626 Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18223443 CITRATE SALT, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME HABTE, KAHSAY 1624 Other Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18253541 COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF BAUER, NICOLA MARIA 1621 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 18, 2023
17907463 COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1624 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 27, 2022

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