Prosecution Insights
Last updated: September 24, 2026

Ucb Biopharma S.r.l.

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
2
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 60 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.

8
Hard (47%)
6
Medium (35%)
2
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (18%)
§103 only5 (29%)
§112 only2 (12%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (29%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
82% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
18% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 2 52.4% +25.2%
ALFANO, ALAN 2 — —
ORWIG, KEVIN S 1 25.4% +40.2%
DONOHUE, SEAN R 1 41.4% +21.0%
HAMA, JOANNE 1 25.6% +38.2%
DUTT, ADITI 1 47.0% +48.5%
CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1 72.7% +18.3%
SCHMIDT, IZABELA MARIA 1 65.3% +42.5%
SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN 1 0.0% +0.0%
HUYNH, PHUONG N 1 65.8% +53.5%

Hard Cases (10)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18039498 FORMULATIONS SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN 5d
18248651 BINDING MOLECULES THAT MULTIMERISE CD45 OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 33d
18760979 HUMANISED ANTIBODIES ORWIG, KEVIN S —
18684711 ANTI-HLA-G ANTIBODIES HAMA, JOANNE —
18422323 ANTIBODY MOLECULES WHICH BIND IL-17A AND IL-17F DUTT, ADITI —
18277594 ANTIBODIES ALFANO, ALAN —
18251006 USE OF ANTI-TREM1 NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF MOTOR NEURON NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS HUYNH, PHUONG N —
18028736 Nucleic Acid Constructs, Viral Vectors and Viral Particles MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE —

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18632964 Imaging Agents DONOHUE, SEAN R 81d overdue
18703675 FORMULATIONS VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 7d
18760979 HUMANISED ANTIBODIES ORWIG, KEVIN S —
18703661 FORMULATIONS VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE —
18684711 ANTI-HLA-G ANTIBODIES HAMA, JOANNE —
18422323 ANTIBODY MOLECULES WHICH BIND IL-17A AND IL-17F DUTT, ADITI —
18267925 AMORPHOUS SOLID DISPERSIONS CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S —
18265156 Octahydroisoquinolinyl Derivatives SCHMIDT, IZABELA MARIA —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1641 3
1612 2
3991 1
1618 1
1625 1
1621 1
1615 1
1644 1
1635 1
1674 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18760979 HUMANISED ANTIBODIES ORWIG, KEVIN S 3991 Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 01, 2024
18703661 FORMULATIONS VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 1612 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 22, 2024
18703675 FORMULATIONS VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE 1612 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Apr 22, 2024
18632964 Imaging Agents DONOHUE, SEAN R 1618 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2024
18684711 ANTI-HLA-G ANTIBODIES HAMA, JOANNE — §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 19, 2024
18422323 ANTIBODY MOLECULES WHICH BIND IL-17A AND IL-17F DUTT, ADITI — §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 25, 2024
18277594 ANTIBODIES ALFANO, ALAN 1641 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 17, 2023
18267925 AMORPHOUS SOLID DISPERSIONS CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 16, 2023
18265156 Octahydroisoquinolinyl Derivatives SCHMIDT, IZABELA MARIA 1621 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 02, 2023
18039498 FORMULATIONS SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending May 31, 2023
18251006 USE OF ANTI-TREM1 NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF MOTOR NEURON NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS HUYNH, PHUONG N 1641 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection — Pending Apr 28, 2023
18248651 BINDING MOLECULES THAT MULTIMERISE CD45 OUSPENSKI, ILIA I 1644 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Apr 11, 2023
18028736 Nucleic Acid Constructs, Viral Vectors and Viral Particles MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE 1635 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 27, 2023
18045623 Methods of Treatment Using Anti-IL-17A/F Antibodies SCHWECHTER, BRANDON ROSS 1674 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 11, 2022
17907116 AUTONOMOUS KNOB DOMAIN PEPTIDES ALFANO, ALAN 1641 §112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17787094 MULTI-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES CHATTIN, AMY MARIE 1643 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2022
17286247 METHOD FOR THE TREATMENT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS HOLTZMAN, KATHERINE ANN 1646 §103Other Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2021

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