Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Genzyme Corporation

25 pending office actions • 22 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 65 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (1)

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%)
19
Medium (76%)
2
Easy (8%)
4
Unknown (16%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only16 (64%)
§102 only3 (12%)
§112 only2 (8%)
No statute on record4 (16%)

Industry Mix

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

24
Life Sciences
96% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% 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.

250 h
Manual time on pending OAs
50 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
88 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 2 64.6% +17.0%
BEISNER, WILLIAM H 1 61.6% +29.4%
XU, XIAOYUN 1 59.6% +32.3%
MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 1 43.5% +53.4%
SMALE, AVERY E 1 72.9% +22.2%
NGUYEN, QUANG 1 38.2% +52.8%
HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1 52.3% +27.2%
SHIBUYA, MARK LANCE 1 32.3% +24.9%
PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 1 79.8% +28.0%
KOSAR, ANDREW D 1 42.1% +31.4%

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18236462 METHODS FOR TREATING RECEPTOR-INTERACTING PROTEIN KINASE 1-MEDIATED DISEASES HAVLIN, ROBERT H 138d overdue
18304519 Compositions and Methods for Treating Spinal Muscular Atrophy POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 105d overdue
18317772 METHODS OF TREATING METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY SHIBUYA, MARK LANCE 37d overdue
19347877 DEVICES FOR CELL LYSIS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BEISNER, WILLIAM H 17d overdue
18628338 FLUID GUIDE SYSTEM USABLE FOR DRUG HANDLING, E.G. FOR RECONSTITUTION, CORRESPONDING MEDICAL DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER RELATED ITEMS SMALE, AVERY E 17d overdue
18299640 USE OF AN IRAK4 MODULATOR FOR GENE THERAPY KOSAR, ANDREW D 8d
18644528 HUMANIZED ANTI-COMPLEMENT FACTOR BB ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 13d
19013836 METHODS FOR DETECTING AAV XU, XIAOYUN 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1631 2
1637 2
1675 2
1799 1
1797 1
1674 1
3783 1
1626 1
1684 1
1625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19347877 DEVICES FOR CELL LYSIS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BEISNER, WILLIAM H 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2025
19013836 METHODS FOR DETECTING AAV XU, XIAOYUN 1797 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jan 08, 2025
18644528 HUMANIZED ANTI-COMPLEMENT FACTOR BB ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 1674 §112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18628338 FLUID GUIDE SYSTEM USABLE FOR DRUG HANDLING, E.G. FOR RECONSTITUTION, CORRESPONDING MEDICAL DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER RELATED ITEMS SMALE, AVERY E 3783 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18407298 RECOMBINANT AAV VECTORS EXPRESSING OSTEOPROTECTIVE GENES, INCLUDING HAS2 AND LUBRICIN, USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF OSTEOARTHRITIS AND RELATED JOINT CONDITIONS IN MAMMALS NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18236462 METHODS FOR TREATING RECEPTOR-INTERACTING PROTEIN KINASE 1-MEDIATED DISEASES HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §102 Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18317772 METHODS OF TREATING METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY SHIBUYA, MARK LANCE 1631 Other Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending May 15, 2023
18315316 FLOW CYTOMETRY ATTENUATED REPORTER EXPRESSION (FLARE) MULTIPLE REPORTER SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending May 10, 2023
18304519 Compositions and Methods for Treating Spinal Muscular Atrophy POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 1637 Other Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18299640 USE OF AN IRAK4 MODULATOR FOR GENE THERAPY KOSAR, ANDREW D 1625 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 12, 2023
18296283 TARGETED GENE THERAPY FOR DM-1 MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY BRETZ, COREY LANE 1635 Other Non-Final OA 56d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18025847 CARBOXYLIC ACID-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS AS MODULATORS OF BIS-PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE FOR THE TREATMENT OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE VAJDA, KRISTIN ANN 1622 §102 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Mar 10, 2023
18007433 METHODS FOR REDUCING GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID CONCENTRATION IN BRAIN TISSUE AND METHODS OF TREATMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES INVOLVING THE SAME SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1628 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18051468 TREATMENT OF OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
18045995 FGFR3 ANTIBODIES AND METHODS OF USE ALLEN, MARIANNE P 1647 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 12, 2022
17878884 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING A BLEEDING EVENT IN A SUBJECT HAVING HEMOPHILIA WHITEMAN, BRIAN A 1636 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2022
17843812 ANTI-TGF-BETA ANTIBODY FORMULATIONS AND THEIR USE BERHANE, SELAM 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 17, 2022
17775446 BIPARATOPIC CD73 ANTIBODIES AEDER, SEAN E 1642 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending May 09, 2022
17721003 METHODS OF PERFUSION CULTURING A MAMMALIAN CELL LEVIN, JOEL D 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2022
17403592 GLYCOENGINEERED ANTIBODY DRUG CONJUGATES LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1693 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Aug 16, 2021
17428505 METHODS FOR TREATING SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES PIHONAK, SARAH 1627 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Aug 04, 2021
17375785 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING A SERPINC1-ASSOCIATED DISORDER POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 1637 Other Final Rejection 54d Pending Jul 14, 2021
16807102 METHODS FOR TREATING PROTEINOPATHIES RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 1621 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2020
16088031 BIOMARKERS OF PROTEOPATHIES AND USES THEREOF FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1675 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Sep 24, 2018
14004377 PEGYLATED APELIN AND USES THEREOF KOMATSU, LI N 1658 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2014

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