Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Twist Bioscience Corporation

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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 (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

7
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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BORTOLI, JONATHAN 1 76.6% +38.7%
GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1 35.7% +53.3%
BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1 63.7% +39.7%
ZHANG, KAIJIANG 1 76.5% +35.3%
LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1 55.3% +56.3%
FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1 64.3% +15.5%
HANDY, DWAYNE K 1 62.7% +25.3%

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
18056648 CYTOKINE VARIANT ANTIBODIES AND METHODS OF USE BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 113d overdue
17715890 LIBRARIES FOR MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS FLINDERS, JEREMY C 85d overdue
17721680 BARCODE-BASED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE ASSEMBLY LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 49d overdue
18319405 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DE NOVO OLIGONUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY BORTOLI, JONATHAN 38d overdue
17368697 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR LIGHT-DIRECTED POLYMER SYNTHESIS HANDY, DWAYNE K 35d overdue
18066953 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF VARIANTS GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 7d
17825863 METHODS FOR SEAMLESS NUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY ZHANG, KAIJIANG 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1684 3
1797 1
1681 1
1643 1
1798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18319405 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DE NOVO OLIGONUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY BORTOLI, JONATHAN 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18066953 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF VARIANTS GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA 1681 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 15, 2022
18056648 CYTOKINE VARIANT ANTIBODIES AND METHODS OF USE BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1643 §112 Non-Final OA 113d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2022
17825863 METHODS FOR SEAMLESS NUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY ZHANG, KAIJIANG 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 26, 2022
17721680 BARCODE-BASED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE ASSEMBLY LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE 1684 §102 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2022
17715890 LIBRARIES FOR MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2022
17368697 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR LIGHT-DIRECTED POLYMER SYNTHESIS HANDY, DWAYNE K 1798 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2021

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