Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C.

13 pending office actions • 12 clients • 13 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (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%)
8
Medium (62%)
2
Easy (15%)
3
Unknown (23%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (54%)
§112 only2 (15%)
Double-patenting + other1 (8%)
No statute on record3 (23%)

Industry Mix

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

13
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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VERA, ELISA H 1 71.6% +26.7%
SHOMER, ISAAC 1 63.1% +30.7%
RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 1 68.7% +31.6%
SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1 68.8% +28.3%
JOHNSON, TIRONE DEREK 1
LEE, YIE CHIA 1 72.7% +43.4%
BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M 1 55.4% +22.1%
MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN 1 75.9% +23.6%
AEDER, SEAN E 1 56.9% +19.6%
MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1 74.3% +30.6%

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
18346961 ANTI-CGRP COMPOSITIONS AND USE THEREOF BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M 60d overdue
18392143 COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS COMPRISING TRANSFECTION-COMPETENT VESICLES FREE OF ORGANIC-SOLVENTS AND DETERGENTS AND METHODS RELATED THERETO SHOMER, ISAAC 25d overdue
18278639 CO-EXPRESSED CXCR2 AND T CELLS OF STAR SPECIFIC TO GPC3, AND USE THEREOF LEE, YIE CHIA 22d overdue
18837911 HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT GPAM WITH ANIONIC POLYSACCHARIDE PROMOTER VERA, ELISA H 10d overdue
18023405 PREPARATION METHOD FOR NOVEL RHO-RELATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR AND INTERMEDIATE IN PREPARATION METHOD MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 6d
18029400 EGFR-TARGETING CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR AEDER, SEAN E 22d
18269783 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING PYRROLOQUINOLINE QUINONE TRILITHIUM SALT NONAHYDRATE COMPOUND, CAPSULE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN 26d
18283465 THIOPHENE GLP-1 RECEPTOR AGONIST AND USE THEREOF SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 34d

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16753
16422
16242
17481
16121
16211
16291
16221
16431

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18837911 HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT GPAM WITH ANIONIC POLYSACCHARIDE PROMOTER Kemira Oyj VERA, ELISA H 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18392143 COMPOSITIONS AND SYSTEMS COMPRISING TRANSFECTION-COMPETENT VESICLES FREE OF ORGANIC-SOLVENTS AND DETERGENTS AND METHODS RELATED THERETO The University of British Columbia SHOMER, ISAAC 1612 Other Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18283834 NOVEL COMPOUNDS USEFUL AS STING AGONISTS AND USES THEREOF Jacobio Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 1621 §112 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Sep 25, 2023
18283465 THIOPHENE GLP-1 RECEPTOR AGONIST AND USE THEREOF Hangzhou Zhongmeihuadong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18283385 MULTISPECIFIC PROTEINS COMPRISING AN NKP46-BINDING SITE, A CANCER ANTGIENGE BINDING SITE FUSED TO A CYTOKINE FOR NK CELL ENGAGING Innate Pharma JOHNSON, TIRONE DEREK 1675 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18278639 CO-EXPRESSED CXCR2 AND T CELLS OF STAR SPECIFIC TO GPC3, AND USE THEREOF (Shanghai Icell Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) LEE, YIE CHIA 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2023
18346961 ANTI-CGRP COMPOSITIONS AND USE THEREOF Alderbio Holdings LLC BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M 1675 Other Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2023
18269783 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING PYRROLOQUINOLINE QUINONE TRILITHIUM SALT NONAHYDRATE COMPOUND, CAPSULE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR Shanghai Raising Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN 1624 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18029400 EGFR-TARGETING CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR BEIJING INSTITUTE FOR STEM CELL AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AEDER, SEAN E 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 04, 2023
18023405 PREPARATION METHOD FOR NOVEL RHO-RELATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR AND INTERMEDIATE IN PREPARATION METHOD BEIJING TIDE PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. MCDOWELL, BRIAN E 1624 §112 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 27, 2023
18015096 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND APPLICATION THEREOF Shanghai Raising Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. JAVANMARD, SAHAR 1622 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 09, 2023
18148448 WNT RECEPTOR-SPECIFIC COMPOUND AND METHOD RELATING THERETO Surrozen Operating, Inc. WANG, CHANG YU 1675 DPOther Non-Final OA 77d Pending Dec 30, 2022
18008278 Improved T cell receptor-costimulatory molecule chimera Tsinghua University CHATTIN, AMY MARIE 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022

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