Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

ModernaTX Inc.

19 pending office actions • 13 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
9
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.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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 (32%)
8
Medium (42%)
4
Easy (21%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only5 (26%)
§112 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting only3 (16%)
Double-patenting + other3 (16%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (26%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

18
Life Sciences
95% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
5% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 2 100.0% +0.0%
KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 1 58.0% +16.2%
ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 1 53.4% +40.2%
WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH 1 51.1% +39.8%
RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1 40.3% +50.7%
SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK 1 55.7% +32.1%
BROWN, MINDY G 1 52.4% +47.5%
CREWS, JARET JAMES 1 43.5% +73.8%
CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1 73.4% +6.3%
PAK, YONG D 1 74.6% +14.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17925125 RNA FORMULATIONS FOR HIGH VOLUME DISTRIBUTION, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME FOR TREATING COVID-19 LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 22d overdue
17925114 RNA FORMULATIONS FOR HIGH VOLUME DISTRIBUTION LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 16d overdue

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
18161857 METHODS FOR PREPARING PARTICLES AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS GREENE, IVAN A 45d overdue
18284177 PURIFICATION AND RECYCLING OF mRNA NUCLEOTIDE CAPS CREWS, JARET JAMES 30d overdue
18008139 BACTERIAL STRAINS FOR DNA PRODUCTION TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS 1d overdue
18569776 CORONAVIRUS GLYCOSYLATION VARIANT VACCINES SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK
18284938 METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND RATIO DETERMINATION OF RNA SPECIES IN MULTIVALENT RNA COMPOSITIONS BROWN, MINDY G
18272512 VARIANT STRAIN-BASED CORONAVIRUS VACCINES CHEN, STACY BROWN

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
18284177 PURIFICATION AND RECYCLING OF mRNA NUCLEOTIDE CAPS CREWS, JARET JAMES 30d overdue
18291707 PROCESSES FOR PREPARING LIPID NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH 34d
17928680 PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF PAK, YONG D 75d
19410723 BETACORONAVIRUS mRNA VACCINES KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN
18709314 COMPOSITIONS FOR THE DELIVERY OF PAYLOAD MOLECULES TO AIRWAY EPITHELIUM ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA
18578052 POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING PROPIONYL-COA CARBOXYLASE ALPHA AND BETA SUBUNITS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES
18569776 CORONAVIRUS GLYCOSYLATION VARIANT VACCINES SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK
18284938 METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND RATIO DETERMINATION OF RNA SPECIES IN MULTIVALENT RNA COMPOSITIONS BROWN, MINDY G

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1672 3
1612 3
1633 2
1671 1
1683 1
1691 1
1652 1
1631 1
1615 1
1619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19410723 BETACORONAVIRUS mRNA VACCINES KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 1672 §112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 05, 2025
18709314 COMPOSITIONS FOR THE DELIVERY OF PAYLOAD MOLECULES TO AIRWAY EPITHELIUM ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 1612 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending May 10, 2024
18291707 PROCESSES FOR PREPARING LIPID NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITIONS WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH 1612 DP Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18578052 POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING PROPIONYL-COA CARBOXYLASE ALPHA AND BETA SUBUNITS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PROPIONIC ACIDEMIA RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2024
18569776 CORONAVIRUS GLYCOSYLATION VARIANT VACCINES SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK 1671 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2023
18284938 METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND RATIO DETERMINATION OF RNA SPECIES IN MULTIVALENT RNA COMPOSITIONS BROWN, MINDY G 1683 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2023
18284177 PURIFICATION AND RECYCLING OF mRNA NUCLEOTIDE CAPS CREWS, JARET JAMES 1691 §103§112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18282097 THERAPEUTIC USE OF SARS-COV-2 MRNA DOMAIN VACCINES CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
17928680 PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF PAK, YONG D 1652 §102§103DPOther Final Rejection 75d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18272512 VARIANT STRAIN-BASED CORONAVIRUS VACCINES CHEN, STACY BROWN 1672 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 14, 2023
18177455 MODIFIED NUCLEOSIDE, NUCLEOTIDE, AND NUCLEIC ACID COMPOSITIONS LEONARD, ARTHUR S 1631 §103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2023
18040745 METHODS OF PREPARING LIPID NANOPARTICLES SHOMER, ISAAC 1612 DP Final Rejection Pending Feb 06, 2023
18040485 COMPOSITIONS FOR THE DELIVERY OF PAYLOAD MOLECULES TO AIRWAY EPITHELIUM LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1615 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 03, 2023
18161857 METHODS FOR PREPARING PARTICLES AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS GREENE, IVAN A 1619 §103§112 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18008139 BACTERIAL STRAINS FOR DNA PRODUCTION TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS 1634 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022
17925114 RNA FORMULATIONS FOR HIGH VOLUME DISTRIBUTION LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 1633 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022
17925125 RNA FORMULATIONS FOR HIGH VOLUME DISTRIBUTION, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME FOR TREATING COVID-19 LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 1633 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022
17761420 CAP GUIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR RNA MAPPING QIAN, CELINE X 1637 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 17, 2022
17277829 STEROL ANALOGS AND USES THEREOF MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1624 Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 19, 2021

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