Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Lonza Ltd.

21 pending office actions • 17 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

6
Hard (29%)
13
Medium (62%)
2
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (10%)
§103 only6 (29%)
Double-patenting only2 (10%)
Double-patenting + other7 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

20
Life Sciences
95% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, CHRISTINA L 3 48.2% +45.5%
MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN 2 48.8% +35.6%
MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1 36.1% +64.0%
MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y 1 70.9% +42.6%
LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 1 100.0% +0.0%
NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 1 67.0% +40.3%
KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1 52.4% +0.5%
LEWOCZKO, EVAN MICHAEL 1
LEE, JIA-HAI 1 49.8% +48.0%
BREWSTER, HAYDEN R 1 62.3% +48.5%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18247552 STERILE SAMPLING METHODS AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED CELL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH 23d overdue
18247406 TEMPERATURE CALIBRATION METHODS AND DEVICES FOR USE IN AUTOMATED BIOREACTORS HASSAN, LIBAN M 3d overdue
18276559 SIGNAL PEPTIDES FOR INCREASED PROTEIN SECRETION LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 26d
18462800 METHOD FOR PRODUCING BIOLOGIC PRODUCT VARIANTS MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL
17906177 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS LEE, JIA-HAI
17635315 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES WITH STAT3-ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TRAN, CHRISTINA L

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18246301 PROCESS FOR PREPARING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES BREWSTER, HAYDEN R 44d overdue
17635322 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE-ASO CONSTRUCTS TARGETING STAT6 TRAN, CHRISTINA L 7d
18462800 METHOD FOR PRODUCING BIOLOGIC PRODUCT VARIANTS MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL
18454930 CARBON-SOURCE REGULATED PROTEIN PRODUCTION IN A RECOMBINANT HOST CELL MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y
17815465 MODULATION OF LIPID METABOLISM FOR PROTEIN PRODUCTION NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS
17906177 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS LEE, JIA-HAI
18050017 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE-ASO CONSTRUCTS TARGETING STAT6 TRAN, CHRISTINA L
17757345 AUTOMATED PRODUCTION OF VIRAL VECTORS MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1637 3
1632 2
1638 2
1631 1
1652 1
1633 1
1693 1
1612 1
1658 1
1779 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18462800 METHOD FOR PRODUCING BIOLOGIC PRODUCT VARIANTS MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1631 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 07, 2023
18454930 CARBON-SOURCE REGULATED PROTEIN PRODUCTION IN A RECOMBINANT HOST CELL MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y 1652 DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2023
18276559 SIGNAL PEPTIDES FOR INCREASED PROTEIN SECRETION LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 1633 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 09, 2023
17815465 MODULATION OF LIPID METABOLISM FOR PROTEIN PRODUCTION NOBLE, MARCIA STEPHENS 1632 DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Jul 27, 2022
17434442 Purification Process for Biological Molecules Such as Plasmid DNA Using Anionic Exchange Chromatography KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1693 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 27, 2021
18546131 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE LINKED TO A BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MOLECULE VIA AN OPTIMIZED LINKER AND AN ANCHORING MOIETY LEWOCZKO, EVAN MICHAEL 1612 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2023
17906177 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS LEE, JIA-HAI 1658 §101§102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2023
18246301 PROCESS FOR PREPARING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES BREWSTER, HAYDEN R 1779 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18042068 METHODS OF TREATING CANCER STOICA, ELLY GERALD 1647 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Feb 17, 2023
18050017 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE-ASO CONSTRUCTS TARGETING STAT6 TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1637 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 26, 2022
17757345 AUTOMATED PRODUCTION OF VIRAL VECTORS MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN 1638 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 14, 2022
17635315 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES WITH STAT3-ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1637 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2022
17635322 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE-ASO CONSTRUCTS TARGETING STAT6 TRAN, CHRISTINA L 1637 DP Final Rejection 7d Pending Feb 14, 2022
17634897 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE LINKED TO MOLECULES AND USES THEREOF MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 §103DP Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2022
17594401 METHODS OF TREATING TUBERCULOSIS JUEDES, AMY E 1644 §103DP Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2021
17441162 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE CONJUGATES AND USES THEREOF ANTHOPOLOS, PETER 1611 §103§112DP Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2021
17293833 ENGINEERED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND USES THEREOF ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA 1654 §103Other Final Rejection 13d Pending May 13, 2021
18300994 METHODS FOR NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING USING SYNTHETIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS MCCORMICK, CATHERINE LYNN 1638 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 14, 2023
18247552 STERILE SAMPLING METHODS AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED CELL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH 3783 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2023
18247406 TEMPERATURE CALIBRATION METHODS AND DEVICES FOR USE IN AUTOMATED BIOREACTORS HASSAN, LIBAN M 1799 §103§112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
16478461 PASSAGING AND HARVESTING FORMULATION FOR SINGLE-CELL HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1632 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2019

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