Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Scholar Rock Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 2 of 4 (50%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

1
Hard (25%)
2
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (25%)
Double-patenting + other2 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% 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
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN 1 60.9% +52.1%
SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1 61.1% +47.4%
DONOGHUE, BRITTNEY ERIN 1 58.6% +48.8%
SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN 1 58.6% +39.6%

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
17248700 USE OF MYOSTATIN INHIBITORS AND COMBINATION THERAPIES SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN 30d

Interview Candidates (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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17248700 USE OF MYOSTATIN INHIBITORS AND COMBINATION THERAPIES SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN 30d
18578341 LTBP COMPLEX-SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF TGFb1 AND USES THEREOF FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN
18363435 ISOFORM-SPECIFIC, CONTEXT-PERMISSIVE TGFB1 INHIBITORS AND USE THEREOF SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN
18250489 USE OF ANTI-PRO/LATENT MYOSTATIN ANTIBODY FOR TREATING SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DONOGHUE, BRITTNEY ERIN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1642 1
1675 1
1635 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18578341 LTBP COMPLEX-SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF TGFb1 AND USES THEREOF FAUST, AMBER KATHLEEN §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 11, 2024
18363435 ISOFORM-SPECIFIC, CONTEXT-PERMISSIVE TGFB1 INHIBITORS AND USE THEREOF SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1642 §112 Non-Final OA AI Ready Aug 01, 2023
18250489 USE OF ANTI-PRO/LATENT MYOSTATIN ANTIBODY FOR TREATING SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DONOGHUE, BRITTNEY ERIN 1675 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 25, 2023
17248700 USE OF MYOSTATIN INHIBITORS AND COMBINATION THERAPIES SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN 1635 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 30d AI Ready Feb 03, 2021

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