Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Regulus Therapeutics Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of work under 1 distinct examiner suggests a focused prosecution effort for the company at this stage.
The presence of a single pending action indicates a low volume of active disputes or new filings requiring immediate response. Because the busiest examiner handles the entire workload, the company's current prosecution strategy depends on the specific tendencies of this individual. This limited workload simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property interests.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | 1 | 46.8% | +22.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693783 | Methods and Compositions for Avoiding Off-Target Effects | VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693783 | Methods and Compositions for Avoiding Off-Target Effects | VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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