Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Gilead Sciences Inc.

20 pending office actions • 12 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (3)

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%)
9
Medium (45%)
3
Easy (15%)
8
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (40%)
§102 only1 (5%)
§112 only3 (15%)
No statute on record8 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

20
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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AULAKH, CHARANJIT 2 80.9% -15.6%
BERRY, LAYLA D 1 65.9% +8.6%
CHAO, ALLEN 1 100.0% +0.0%
OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1 62.2% -12.5%
DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1 44.6% +32.4%
LEWIS, PATRICK T 1 74.3% +14.5%
GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1 100.0% +0.0%
BORALSKY, LUKE ALAN 1 100.0% +0.0%
DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 1
SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1 68.8% +28.3%

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
18512088 METHODS FOR TREATING POXVIRUS INFECTIONS CHAO, ALLEN 3d overdue
18448721 DOSING AND SCHEDULING REGIMEN FOR BROADLY NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 8d
18264670 THIENOPYRROLE COMPOUNDS AULAKH, CHARANJIT 70d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18243812 METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF VIRAL INFECTIONS LEWIS, PATRICK T 25d overdue
18469844 FOCAL IONIZING RADIATION AND CD47/SIRPa DISRUPTION ANTICANCER COMBINATION THERAPY DENT, ALANA HARRIS 12d
18344560 CD73 COMPOUNDS SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 69d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1693 3
1622 3
1621 2
1691 2
1672 2
1627 2
1643 1
1624 1
1629 1
1674 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18740078 QUINOLINE DERIVATIVES AULAKH, CHARANJIT 1621 Other Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Jun 11, 2024
18655876 METHODS OF PREPARING 1'-CYANO NUCLEOSIDES BERRY, LAYLA D 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 06, 2024
18512088 METHODS FOR TREATING POXVIRUS INFECTIONS CHAO, ALLEN 1622 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18479576 4'-THIONUCLEOSIDE ANALOGUES AND THEIR PHARMACEUTICAL USE OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2023
18469844 FOCAL IONIZING RADIATION AND CD47/SIRPa DISRUPTION ANTICANCER COMBINATION THERAPY DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 19, 2023
18243812 METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF VIRAL INFECTIONS LEWIS, PATRICK T 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023
18448721 DOSING AND SCHEDULING REGIMEN FOR BROADLY NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18264670 THIENOPYRROLE COMPOUNDS AULAKH, CHARANJIT 1621 §102 Final Rejection 70d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18365919 SARS-COV2 MAIN PROTEASE INHIBITORS BORALSKY, LUKE ALAN 1624 Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18345547 THERAPEUTIC COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR THE PROPHYLACTIC OR THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OF AN HIV VIRUS INFECTION DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE 1622 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18344560 CD73 COMPOUNDS SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 §112 Final Rejection 69d Pending Jun 29, 2023
18268440 SUBSTITUTED INDOLE COMPOUNDS REILLY, SOPHIA JANE 1627 Other Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18313266 DARUNAVIR COMBINATION FORMULATIONS LEE, ANDREW P 1691 Other Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18303813 KRAS G12D MODULATING COMPOUNDS SANCHEZ, JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER 1622 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18296296 ENGINEERED CD200R ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF HOWARD, ZACHARY C 1674 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
18295163 COMBINATION THERAPY FOR TREATING COLORECTAL CANCER TRAN HO, LAM THUY VI 1647 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18176864 ANTIVIRAL COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME CHO, DAVID H 1693 Other Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2023
17997594 CD73 COMPOUNDS NESTOR, DONNA MICHELLE 1627 Other Final Rejection 131d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2022
17636511 PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS OF TENOFOVIR ALAFENAMIDE JACKSON, SHAWQUIA 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Feb 18, 2022
17612426 DOSAGE REGIMENS FOR VACCINES JADHAO, SAMADHAN JAISING 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2021

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