Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Genentech Inc.

60 pending office actions • 40 art units • 57 examiners • 0 of 60 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 78 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

60
Total Pending OAs
39
Non-Final OAs
19
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 60 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

38
Overdue
1
Due this week
12
Due this month
7
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. 60 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (38)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (12)Due ≤ 60 days (7)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.

1
Hard (2%)
42
Medium (70%)
6
Easy (10%)
11
Unknown (18%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§103 only39 (65%)
§102 only3 (5%)
§112 only6 (10%)
No statute on record11 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

49
Life Sciences
82% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
6
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

600 h
Manual time on pending OAs
120 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
210 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALLEN, MARIANNE P 2 59.8% +18.5%
BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 2 73.5% +39.9%
GODDARD, LAURA B 2 50.7% +14.6%
WEN, SHARON X 1 56.5% +32.8%
RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B 1 32.4% +21.6%
GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 1 15.1% +16.6%
CWERN, JONATHAN 1 50.7% +35.3%
BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE 1 32.9% +10.5%
KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1 58.8% +63.7%
BOUCHELLE, LAURA A 1 80.2% +10.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18743859 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING OMALIZUMAB BOUCHELLE, LAURA A 5d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17378651 ATTENTION-BASED NEURAL NETWORK TO PREDICT PEPTIDE BINDING, PRESENTATION, AND IMMUNOGENICITY BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM 396d overdue
18859952 DRUG PRODUCTION METHOD GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 40d

Interview Candidates (13)

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
17351451 TARGETED INTEGRATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS GODDARD, LAURA B 84d overdue
18752501 MULTI-VECTOR RECOMBINASE MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 78d overdue
17999799 BELVARAFENIB FOR USE IN CANCER TREATMENT BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 78d overdue
19285781 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING LUPUS NEPHRITIS WEN, SHARON X 56d overdue
18364185 ANTI-INTERLEUKIN-33 ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF ALLEN, MARIANNE P 43d overdue
18295539 DOSING FOR TREATMENT WITH ANTI-FCRH5/ANTI-CD3 BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES ALLEN, MARIANNE P 26d overdue
18883384 DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR TUMOR SEGMENTATION WITH POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY CWERN, JONATHAN 24d overdue
18048986 METHODS OF USING ANTI-CD79B IMMUNOCONJUGATES GODDARD, LAURA B 10d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1625 4
1641 3
1653 3
1643 3
1647 3
1644 3
1646 3
1628 2
1678 2
1758 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19285781 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING LUPUS NEPHRITIS WEN, SHARON X 1641 Other Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Jul 30, 2025
19210611 CDK INHIBITORS RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B 1628 §112 Non-Final OA 61d Pending May 16, 2025
18859952 DRUG PRODUCTION METHOD GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 3624 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18883384 DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR TUMOR SEGMENTATION WITH POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY CWERN, JONATHAN 3797 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2024
18828915 PHARMACEUTICAL ASSET TRACKING BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 09, 2024
18752501 MULTI-VECTOR RECOMBINASE MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1635 Other Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2024
18743859 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING OMALIZUMAB BOUCHELLE, LAURA A 3783 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18669218 SYNTHETIC CONTROLS FOR IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18664892 DEEP LEARNING FOR MODELING DISEASE PROGRESSION JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE 2666 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending May 15, 2024
18627251 BIOLOGICAL CONTEXT FOR ANALYZING WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES ROSARIO, DENNIS 2676 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2024
18536174 HIERARCHICAL WORKFLOW FOR GENERATING ANNOTATED TRAINING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED IMAGE SEGMENTATION TSAI, TSUNG YIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2023
18526572 2,8-DIAZASPIRO[4.5]DECANE COMPOUNDS AULAKH, CHARANJIT 1621 §102 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18523284 HETEROARYL PYRIDONE AND AZA-PYRIDONE COMPOUNDS SHIAO, REI TSANG 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
18516552 DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC METHODS FOR CANCER SCHMITT, MICHAEL J 1629 Other Non-Final OA 55d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18491555 CELL CULTURE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR POLYPEPTIDE PRODUCTION LANDAU, SHARMILA GOLLAMUDI 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2023
18482237 TREATMENT OUTCOME PREDICTION FOR NEOVASCULAR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION USING BASELINE CHARACTERISTICS WINDSOR, COURTNEY J 2661 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18464580 ANTI-KLK7 ANTIBODIES, ANTI-KLK5 ANTIBODIES, MULTISPECIFIC ANTI-KLK5/KLK7 ANTIBODIES, AND METHODS OF USE SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2023
18463585 ATTENTION-BASED MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING FOR WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES TRAN, DUY ANH 2674 §102 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 08, 2023
18449807 TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER USING COMBINATION THERAPIES COMPRISING GDC-9545 AND IPATASERTIB CHAO, ALLEN 1622 Other Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18449800 TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER USING COMBINATION THERAPIES COMPRISING GDC-9545 AND GDC-0077 RZECZYCKI, PHILLIP MATTHEW 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18364185 ANTI-INTERLEUKIN-33 ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF ALLEN, MARIANNE P 1647 §112 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2023
18357772 PATHOLOGICAL RESPONSE CALCULATION AND ASSESSMENT TOOL WALLACE, JOHN R 2682 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18349015 Methods and Systems for Determining Kinetic Parameters GABEL, GAILENE 1678 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 07, 2023
18210604 ASSEMBLY OF BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES HUYNH, PHUONG N 1641 Other Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
18334531 METHODS OF TREATING CANCER USING PD-1 AXIS BINDING ANTAGONISTS AND TIGIT INHIBITORS OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1644 Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 14, 2023
18206853 METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION OF GLUCURONIDATION, IDURONIDATION, AND GALACTURONIDATION OF POLYPEPTIDES SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18329972 THERAPEUTIC AND DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR IL-33-MEDIATED DISORDERS SITTON, JEHANNE SOUAYA 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
18204281 INDUCTIVE HEAT STERILIZING SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS LEE, AHAM NMN 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 31, 2023
18323240 PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS OF USE BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1625 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 24, 2023
18321199 CONTAINED SINGLE-USE POWDER INDUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE BHATIA, ANSHU 1774 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 22, 2023
18315450 SMALL PARTS CLEANING APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE LEE, KEVIN G 1711 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending May 10, 2023
18297546 8-(AZETIDIN-1-YL)-[1,2,4]TRIAZOLO[1,5-A]PYRIDINYL COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JARRELL, NOBLE E 1699 §112 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2023
18295539 DOSING FOR TREATMENT WITH ANTI-FCRH5/ANTI-CD3 BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES ALLEN, MARIANNE P 1647 Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2023
18124096 PURIFICATION OF MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18043568 HIGH THROUGHPUT, FLUORESCENCE-BASED ESTERASE ACTIVITY ASSAY FOR ASSESSING POLYSORBATE DEGRADATION RISK DURING BIOPHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT XU, QING 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Feb 28, 2023
18173002 ASSAYS AND REAGENTS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF MHCI PEPTIDE BINDING LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Feb 22, 2023
18163819 DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC METHODS FOR LYMPHOMA CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 02, 2023
18156744 ANTIBODY-CONJUGATED CHEMICAL INDUCERS OF DEGRADATION OF BRM AND METHODS THEREOF VAN DRUFF, SYDNEY 1643 Other Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2023
18004550 Anti-Notch2 Antibodies and Methods of Use HADDAD, MAHER M 1641 Other Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
17999799 BELVARAFENIB FOR USE IN CANCER TREATMENT BELL, SARA ELIZABETH 1625 Other Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2022
18048986 METHODS OF USING ANTI-CD79B IMMUNOCONJUGATES GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
18046865 METHODS FOR ASSAYING T-CELL DEPENDENT BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES SKELDING, ZACHARY S 1644 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 14, 2022
17964325 METHOD FOR MEDIUM TREATMENT BEFORE INOCULATION MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2022
17822746 EFFICIENT GENOME EDITING IN PRIMARY MYELOID CELLS VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2022
17842715 CULTURE SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED MODELING OF NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS TRAN, KHOA NHAT 1632 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17806252 INHALER DEVICES, MEDICATION FORMULATIONS USED THEREWITH AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE RUDDIE, ELLIOT S 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2022
17629327 DETECTING NEURALLY PROGRAMMED TUMORS USING EXPRESSION DATA MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L 1685 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022
17513710 PURIFICATION PLATFORMS FOR OBTAINING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS HAVING A REDUCED HYDROLYTIC ENZYME ACTIVITY RATE SUNSHINE, HANNAH LOUISE 1647 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 28, 2021
17503122 ANTIBODY POTENCY ASSAY EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2021
17490877 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR STABILIZING PROTEIN-CONTAINING FORMULATIONS NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Sep 30, 2021
17473401 TREATMENT OF CANCER WITH HER2XCD3 BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES IN COMBINATION WITH ANTI-HER2 MAB CHASE, CAROL ANN 1646 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2021
17378651 ATTENTION-BASED NEURAL NETWORK TO PREDICT PEPTIDE BINDING, PRESENTATION, AND IMMUNOGENICITY BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM 1687 §101 Non-Final OA 396d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2021
17351451 TARGETED INTEGRATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §102 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2021
17343543 MODIFIED ANTIBODY FCS AND METHODS OF USE GUSTILO, ESTELLA M 1646 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2021
17229746 COPPER LOSS MITIGATION MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 13, 2021
17275609 PYRIMIDINYL-HETEROARYLOXY-NAPHTHYL COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF USE LEE, CHIHYI NMN 1628 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 11, 2021
17249457 CARBOXAMIDE AND SULFONAMIDE DERIVATIVES USEFUL AS TEAD MODULATORS KENYON, JOHN S 1625 §112 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2021
17172528 CELL CULTURE STRATEGIES FOR MODULATING PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION AFREMOVA, VERA 1653 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2021
16221369 PURIFICATION OF MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES HALVORSON, MARK 1646 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2018
16185369 METHODS OF DECREASING TRISULFIDE BONDS DURING RECOMBINANT PRODUCTION OF POLYPEPTIDES BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A 1644 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 09, 2018

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