Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. AMANDA L AGUIRRE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently focused on a single examiner within one art unit.

The data indicates 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter for the company. This action is classified under the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. AMANDA L AGUIRRE is the sole examiner assigned to the portfolio, and she works within 1 distinct art unit. This shows a highly concentrated prosecution landscape with no diversification across different examiners or art units.

For a practitioner, the success of the current prosecution depends entirely on AMANDA L AGUIRRE. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, there are no other pending cases to provide a broader perspective on how the company's biotechnology is being evaluated. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be the primary measure of the company's current patent office success. The alignment of the total pending actions with a single examiner and art unit indicates a singular focus for the current prosecution cycle.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AGUIRRE, AMANDA L 1 77.2% +15.6%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18744219 SYNTHESIS OF THE PROSTATE SPECIFIC MEMBRANE ANTIGEN (PSMA) RADIOLABELED INHIBITOR [18F]DCFPYL AGUIRRE, AMANDA L —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1626 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18744219 SYNTHESIS OF THE PROSTATE SPECIFIC MEMBRANE ANTIGEN (PSMA) RADIOLABELED INHIBITOR [18F]DCFPYL AGUIRRE, AMANDA L 1626 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 14, 2024

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