Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kite Pharma Inc.

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
5
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (38%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
No statute on record3 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
88% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. 1 30.4% +29.4%
DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1 56.8% +34.8%
NGUYEN, QUANG 1 38.2% +52.8%
SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1 63.3% +49.1%
FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 1 45.7% +36.1%
WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 1 61.8% +52.2%
NATARAJAN, MEERA 1 62.2% +16.8%
WANG, RUIXUE 1 57.6% +23.2%

Interview Candidates (8)

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
17751586 CHIMERIC RECEPTORS TO FLT3 AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF NATARAJAN, MEERA 84d overdue
17679521 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING A PATIENT-SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPY PROCEDURE WITH CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY AND CHAIN-OF-IDENTITY BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE TRACKING WANG, RUIXUE 31d overdue
19044010 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING A PATIENT-SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPY PROCEDURE SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. 25d overdue
17814811 SPLIT CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS AND METHODS OF USE WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 23d overdue
18327651 CHIMERIC TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEINS AND USES THEREOF NGUYEN, QUANG 18d overdue
17816076 MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF CELL THERAPY-INDUCED TOXICITIES FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 8d overdue
18175049 ALLOGENEIC THERAPEUTIC CELLS SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 4d overdue
18496588 FACTORS FOR OPTIMIZING IMMUNOTHERAPY DAUNER, JOSEPH G 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1643 3
3684 1
1682 1
1631 1
1758 1
1672 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19044010 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING A PATIENT-SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPY PROCEDURE SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. 3684 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2025
18496588 FACTORS FOR OPTIMIZING IMMUNOTHERAPY DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18327651 CHIMERIC TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEINS AND USES THEREOF NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18175049 ALLOGENEIC THERAPEUTIC CELLS SHUPE, ELIZABETH A 1643 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2023
17816076 MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF CELL THERAPY-INDUCED TOXICITIES FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2022
17814811 SPLIT CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTORS AND METHODS OF USE WU, JULIE ZHEN QIN 1643 Other Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2022
17751586 CHIMERIC RECEPTORS TO FLT3 AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF NATARAJAN, MEERA 1643 Other Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending May 23, 2022
17679521 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING A PATIENT-SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPY PROCEDURE WITH CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY AND CHAIN-OF-IDENTITY BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE TRACKING WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2022

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