Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Qiagen GmbH

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
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
1
Due this month
0
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 ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (67%)
No statute on record3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

9
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1 62.2% -12.5%
HORLICK, KENNETH R 1 78.9% +15.2%
NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1 73.1% +18.3%
KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1 52.2% +0.0%
BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 1 61.5% +17.0%
TSAY, MARSHA M 1 45.6% +52.3%
SISSON, BRADLEY L 1 19.6% +21.0%
DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1 56.5% +36.3%
LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1 63.0% +66.3%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17344792 METHOD FOR ISOLATING POLY(A) NUCLEIC ACIDS SISSON, BRADLEY L 42d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
13703309 METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF TARGET CELLS OR TISSUE FOR EXTRACTION OF BIOMOLECULES FROM FIXED BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES LU, FRANK WEI MIN 105d overdue
17416814 URINE STABILIZATION TSAY, MARSHA M 74d overdue
17620612 METHOD FOR ENRICHING NUCLEIC ACIDS BY SIZE BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 72d overdue
17344792 METHOD FOR ISOLATING POLY(A) NUCLEIC ACIDS SISSON, BRADLEY L 42d overdue
16848117 METHOD, LYSIS SOLUTION AND KIT FOR SELECTIVELY DEPLETING ANIMAL NUCLEIC ACIDS IN A SAMPLE DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 14d
18029408 PATHOGEN DETECTION METHOD HORLICK, KENNETH R 65d
18052029 CATION CHELATOR HOT START NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1693 3
1656 2
1681 1
1682 1
1636 1
1683 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18343296 METHOD FOR ISOLATING RNA WITH HIGH YIELD OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL 1693 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18029408 PATHOGEN DETECTION METHOD HORLICK, KENNETH R 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Mar 30, 2023
18052029 CATION CHELATOR HOT START NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE 1656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2022
17785251 METHOD FOR ENRICHING VESICULAR RNA KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1693 Other Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2022
17620612 METHOD FOR ENRICHING NUCLEIC ACIDS BY SIZE BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021
17416814 URINE STABILIZATION TSAY, MARSHA M 1656 Other Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2021
17344792 METHOD FOR ISOLATING POLY(A) NUCLEIC ACIDS SISSON, BRADLEY L 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2021
16848117 METHOD, LYSIS SOLUTION AND KIT FOR SELECTIVELY DEPLETING ANIMAL NUCLEIC ACIDS IN A SAMPLE DACE DENITO, ALEXANDRA GERALDINE 1636 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 14, 2020
13703309 METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF TARGET CELLS OR TISSUE FOR EXTRACTION OF BIOMOLECULES FROM FIXED BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1683 §103 Final Rejection 105d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2012

Managing Qiagen GmbH's Patent Portfolio?

IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month