Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inhibrx Biosciences Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are currently being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution workload is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, which suggests a focused technical scope for the pending applications within the biotechnology sector.
CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is handling a single matter. This one-to-one ratio between examiners and pending actions indicates a highly distributed workload across the 2 distinct art units for the active applications.
With pending office actions spread across only 2 distinct art units, the company is interacting with multiple examiners in a limited number of specialized groups. This structure means that while each of the 4 distinct examiners has a unique perspective, they are operating within the same technical environments, which may lead to some consistency in broader departmental policies. Practitioners should evaluate how these examiners interpret similar biological or pharmaceutical subject matter across the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1 | 64.2% | +52.6% |
| BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | 1 | 63.4% | +39.8% |
| CESARE, JOSEPH DAVID | 1 | — | — |
| EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA | 1 | 70.8% | +31.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520308 | MULTISPECIFIC POLYPEPTIDE CONSTRUCTS HAVING CONSTRAINED CD3 BINDING AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17418458 | Polypeptides Comprising Modified IL-2 Polypeptides and Uses Thereof | EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA | 66d overdue |
| 18969101 | MULTISPECIFIC POLYPEPTIDE CONSTRUCTS CONTAINING A CONSTRAINED CD3 BINDING DOMAIN AND A RECEPTOR BINDING REGION AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | — |
| 18520308 | MULTISPECIFIC POLYPEPTIDE CONSTRUCTS HAVING CONSTRAINED CD3 BINDING AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1675 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969101 | MULTISPECIFIC POLYPEPTIDE CONSTRUCTS CONTAINING A CONSTRAINED CD3 BINDING DOMAIN AND A RECEPTOR BINDING REGION AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18520308 | MULTISPECIFIC POLYPEPTIDE CONSTRUCTS HAVING CONSTRAINED CD3 BINDING AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18264475 | Formulations of DR5 Binding Polypeptides | CESARE, JOSEPH DAVID | 1675 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 17418458 | Polypeptides Comprising Modified IL-2 Polypeptides and Uses Thereof | EDGINGTONGIORDANO, FRANCESCA | 1643 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Jun 25, 2021 |
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