Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Merus N V

12 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

6
Hard (50%)
3
Medium (25%)
2
Easy (17%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (25%)
§112 only2 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (50%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

12
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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 2 57.4% +42.8%
NICKOL, GARY B 2 45.3% +28.7%
ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 2 59.4% +26.5%
CHASE, CAROL ANN 1 44.1% +84.3%
LI, RUIXIANG 1 59.4% +19.1%
XIAO, YAN 1 67.8% +51.6%
GODDARD, LAURA B 1 51.0% +14.0%
BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1 63.6% +39.7%
MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 1 46.1% +54.1%

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
18251832 MEANS AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBJECTS WITH ERBB3 MUTATION POSITIVE CANCER GODDARD, LAURA B 6d
17632181 TREATMENT OF CANCER WITH A COMBINATION OF AN ANTIBODY THAT BINDS LGR5 AND EGFR AND A TOPOISOMERASE I INHIBITOR MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 28d
18460482 ANTIBODY PRODUCING NON-HUMAN ANIMALS WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA
18449460 ERBB-2 AND ERBB3 BINDING BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CELLS THAT HAVE AN NRG1 FUSION GENE LI, RUIXIANG
18268168 ANTIBODY COMPOSITION XIAO, YAN
18257804 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER NICKOL, GARY B

Interview Candidates (12)

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
17431044 COMBINATIONS OF BINDING MOIETIES THAT BIND EGFR, HER2 AND HER3 ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 30d overdue
18257528 TREATMENT OF CANCERS WITH AN ANTIBODY THAT BINDS LGR5 AND EGFR NICKOL, GARY B 23d overdue
18251832 MEANS AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBJECTS WITH ERBB3 MUTATION POSITIVE CANCER GODDARD, LAURA B 6d
17632181 TREATMENT OF CANCER WITH A COMBINATION OF AN ANTIBODY THAT BINDS LGR5 AND EGFR AND A TOPOISOMERASE I INHIBITOR MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 28d
18419527 ANTIBODY THAT BINDS ERBB-2 AND ERBB-3 CHASE, CAROL ANN 42d
16906531 ANTIBODY PRODUCING NON-HUMAN ANIMALS WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 55d
17755196 MEANS AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBJECTS WITH HER2 AND HER3 POSITIVE CANCER BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 70d
18460482 ANTIBODY PRODUCING NON-HUMAN ANIMALS WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1646 3
1643 3
1634 2
1674 2
1642 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18419527 ANTIBODY THAT BINDS ERBB-2 AND ERBB-3 CHASE, CAROL ANN 1646 Other Final Rejection 42d Pending Jan 22, 2024
18460482 ANTIBODY PRODUCING NON-HUMAN ANIMALS WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1634 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection Pending Sep 01, 2023
18449460 ERBB-2 AND ERBB3 BINDING BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CELLS THAT HAVE AN NRG1 FUSION GENE LI, RUIXIANG 1674 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2023
18268168 ANTIBODY COMPOSITION XIAO, YAN 1642 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 16, 2023
18257804 MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER NICKOL, GARY B 1643 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2023
18257528 TREATMENT OF CANCERS WITH AN ANTIBODY THAT BINDS LGR5 AND EGFR NICKOL, GARY B 1643 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18251832 MEANS AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBJECTS WITH ERBB3 MUTATION POSITIVE CANCER GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §103§112Other Final Rejection 6d Pending May 04, 2023
17759728 MEANS AND METHOD FOR MODULATING IMMUNE CELL ENGAGING EFFECTS ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 1646 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 29, 2022
17755196 MEANS AND METHODS FOR TREATING SUBJECTS WITH HER2 AND HER3 POSITIVE CANCER BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1643 §112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 22, 2022
17632181 TREATMENT OF CANCER WITH A COMBINATION OF AN ANTIBODY THAT BINDS LGR5 AND EGFR AND A TOPOISOMERASE I INHIBITOR MIDDLETON, DANAYA L 1674 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 01, 2022
17431044 COMBINATIONS OF BINDING MOIETIES THAT BIND EGFR, HER2 AND HER3 ALSOMAIRY, SARAH ABDOALATIF 1646 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2021
16906531 ANTIBODY PRODUCING NON-HUMAN ANIMALS WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA 1634 §112 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jun 19, 2020

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