Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Frontier Medicines Corporation

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Frontier Medicines Corporation has 1 pending office action currently active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This single prosecution matter is being handled within 1 distinct art unit. The narrow scope of current activity suggests a highly specific focus for the company's immediate patenting efforts in this sector. With only a single pending office action, the company's current interaction with the patent office is extremely limited.

The portfolio involves a distinct examiner, RAHMANI, NILOOFAR, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. This examiner accounts for the total pending workload for the company. With only the same art unit and examiner involved, the current prosecution profile is centralized, reflecting the single pending office action reported in the data. The presence of a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner for the pending office action suggests that the company's current biotechnology filings are being handled by a very specific examination group.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (100%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAHMANI, NILOOFAR 1 77.5% -2.9%

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1691 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18707499 KRAS G12C INHIBITORS RAHMANI, NILOOFAR 1691 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 03, 2024

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