Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH

15 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (4)

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%)
4
Medium (27%)
3
Easy (20%)
8
Unknown (53%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (13%)
§112 only3 (20%)
Double-patenting + other2 (13%)
No statute on record8 (53%)

Industry Mix

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

15
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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NATARAJAN, MEERA 2 62.2% +16.8%
YOUTCHOM PENDIE, EMMANUEL LED 2 60.0% +50.0%
CANELLA, KAREN A 2 62.6% +32.9%
NICKOL, GARY B 1 43.9% +26.4%
MOSELEY II, NELSON B 1 68.1% +41.7%
STOICA, ELLY GERALD 1 66.5% +22.9%
MELCHIOR, JAMES RYLAND 1 61.0% +44.6%
MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 1 71.5% +36.1%
JUEDES, AMY E 1 44.5% +41.0%
WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 1 61.8% +52.2%

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
18185649 PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES OF NON-CANONICAL ORIGIN FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST DIFFERENT TYPES OF CANCERS WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 149d overdue
18192743 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS JUEDES, AMY E 120d overdue
18297076 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST LUNG CANCER, INCLUDING NSCLC, SCLC AND OTHER CANCERS MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 112d overdue
18297064 PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS STOICA, ELLY GERALD 79d overdue
18297069 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS MELCHIOR, JAMES RYLAND 60d overdue
18154091 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SCAFFOLDS FOR THE USE AGAINST PANCREATIC CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS CANELLA, KAREN A 50d overdue
18154098 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SCAFFOLDS FOR THE USE AGAINST PANCREATIC CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS CANELLA, KAREN A 49d overdue
18315183 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST VARIOUS TUMORS MOSELEY II, NELSON B 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1643 6
1647 3
1644 2
1642 1
1674 1
1675 1
1600 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18511308 ANTIGEN BINDING PROTEINS SPECIFICALLY BINDING PRAME NATARAJAN, MEERA 1643 §112 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18451216 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST PROSTATE CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS NICKOL, GARY B 1643 DPOther Non-Final OA 69d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18323577 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST VARIOUS CANCERS YOUTCHOM PENDIE, EMMANUEL LED 1647 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 25, 2023
18314878 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST LUNG CANCER, INCLUDING NSCLC, SCLC AND OTHER CANCERS YOUTCHOM PENDIE, EMMANUEL LED 1647 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending May 10, 2023
18315183 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST VARIOUS TUMORS MOSELEY II, NELSON B 1642 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 10, 2023
18301545 ANTIGEN BINDING PROTEINS SPECIFICALLY BINDING PRAME NATARAJAN, MEERA 1643 DPOther Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 17, 2023
18297064 PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS STOICA, ELLY GERALD 1647 §112 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2023
18297069 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS MELCHIOR, JAMES RYLAND 1644 Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2023
18297076 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST LUNG CANCER, INCLUDING NSCLC, SCLC AND OTHER CANCERS MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 1674 Other Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2023
18192743 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS JUEDES, AMY E 1644 Other Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18185649 PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES OF NON-CANONICAL ORIGIN FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST DIFFERENT TYPES OF CANCERS WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 1643 Other Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18178055 PERSONALIZED IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST SEVERAL NEURONAL AND BRAIN TUMORS FONTAINHAS, AURORA M 1675 Other Non-Final OA 153d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
18158734 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST OVARIAN CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS HAM, JIEUN 1600 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 24, 2023
18154091 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SCAFFOLDS FOR THE USE AGAINST PANCREATIC CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS CANELLA, KAREN A 1643 §112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
18154098 NOVEL PEPTIDES AND COMBINATION OF PEPTIDES FOR USE IN IMMUNOTHERAPY AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SCAFFOLDS FOR THE USE AGAINST PANCREATIC CANCER AND OTHER CANCERS CANELLA, KAREN A 1643 Other Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023

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