Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kezar Life Sciences Inc. has 1 pending office action in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matter is before 1 examiner in 1 art unit, keeping the prosecution record concentrated.
HUI, SAN MING R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A practitioner can focus preparation on the specific examination issues presented in this single assignment.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUI, SAN MING R | 1 | 59.6% | +20.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841805 | SEC61 INHIBITORS AND USE THEREOF | HUI, SAN MING R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841805 | SEC61 INHIBITORS AND USE THEREOF | HUI, SAN MING R | 1627 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKezar Life Sciences Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
San Ming R Hui has the most, with 1 of Kezar Life Sciences Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
