Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Epimed LLC

6 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

4
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (17%)
1
Easy (17%)
4
Unknown (67%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

6
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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 2 68.0% +35.3%
PATEL, SAGAR S 1 76.1% +33.8%
KELLY, ROBERT M 1 74.1% +24.6%
EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE 1 44.2% +46.9%
YAO, LEI 1 60.0% +65.6%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17773240 GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL PROTEINS AND METHOD OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 259d overdue
17909358 GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL (GNC) ANTIBODY-LIKE PROTEINSAND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 168d overdue
17055561 COMPOSITION OF BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF YAO, LEI 117d overdue
18030757 Deuterated Camptothecin Derivative And Antibody-drug Conjugate Thereof PATEL, SAGAR S 72d overdue
17772464 RECOMBINANT ACE2-FC FUSION MOLECULES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE 14d
17909360 MINIATURE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL (miniGNC) ANTIBODY-LIKE PROTEINS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF KELLY, ROBERT M 33d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Baili-Bio (Chengdu) Pharmaceutical 5
Arbele 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16442
16261
16381
16571
16421

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18030757 Deuterated Camptothecin Derivative And Antibody-drug Conjugate Thereof BAILI-BIO (CHENGDU) PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. PATEL, SAGAR S 1626 Other Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2023
17909360 MINIATURE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL (miniGNC) ANTIBODY-LIKE PROTEINS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF BAILI-BIO (CHENGDU) PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. KELLY, ROBERT M 1638 §112 Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 03, 2022
17909358 GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL (GNC) ANTIBODY-LIKE PROTEINSAND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF BAILI-BIO (CHENGDU) PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 1644 Non-Final OA 168d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2022
17773240 GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL PROTEINS AND METHOD OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF BAILI-BIO (CHENGDU) PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. DRISCOLL, MAUREEN VARINA 1644 Other Non-Final OA 259d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022
17772464 RECOMBINANT ACE2-FC FUSION MOLECULES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THEREOF BAILI-BIO (CHENGDU) PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE 1657 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 27, 2022
17055561 COMPOSITION OF BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF Arbele Limited YAO, LEI 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2020

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