Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Vir Biotechnology Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

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

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

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
MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1 69.2% +41.6%
GODDARD, LAURA B 1 50.9% +14.1%
ZOU, NIANXIANG 1 64.0% +24.4%
BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 1 28.6% +77.1%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17607383 ANTIBODIES AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA A INFECTION BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 147d overdue
18262872 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION GODDARD, LAURA B 21d
18559756 COMBINATION OF A TLR8 MODULATING COMPOUND AND ANTI-HBV siRNA THERAPEUTICS MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER

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
17607383 ANTIBODIES AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA A INFECTION BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 147d overdue
18262872 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION GODDARD, LAURA B 21d
17611063 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) INFECTION ZOU, NIANXIANG 34d
18559756 COMBINATION OF A TLR8 MODULATING COMPOUND AND ANTI-HBV siRNA THERAPEUTICS MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1635 1
1642 1
1671 1
1672 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18559756 COMBINATION OF A TLR8 MODULATING COMPOUND AND ANTI-HBV siRNA THERAPEUTICS MEYERING, SHABANA SHABBEER 1635 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2023
18262872 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jul 25, 2023
17611063 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) INFECTION ZOU, NIANXIANG 1671 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 12, 2021
17607383 ANTIBODIES AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA A INFECTION BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI 1672 §103Other Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2021

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