Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Fish & Richardson P.C. (De)

9 pending office actions • 5 clients • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 1 of 9 (11%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=229459 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.8%
Allowance Rate
n=229459
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=229459
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=119358
-0.10σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=119358
1024 days
Time to Allowance
n=119358
+8.5pp
Interview Lift
n=229459
31.1%
RCE Rate
n=229459
1.8%
Appeal Rate
n=229459

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

83.1%
§101 Overcome
n=5299
84.7%
§102 Overcome
n=17786
81.1%
§103 Overcome
n=72424
88.4%
§112 Overcome
n=14274

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A61K, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
16%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=229459
205
Practitioners
n=229459
1119.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=229459

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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%)
4
Medium (44%)
3
Easy (33%)
2
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (33%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Double-patenting only2 (22%)
Double-patenting + other1 (11%)
No statute on record2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

9
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 2 57.8% +45.6%
BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1 71.0% +22.3%
VALLE, ERNESTO 1 60.9% +35.7%
HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1 65.7% +54.8%
BRETZ, COREY LANE 1 0.0% +0.0%
MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y 1 70.9% +42.7%
REYNOLDS, FRED H 1 33.1% +39.1%
HILL, STEPHANI A 1 29.5% +44.3%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
16434869 Fe-Ni Nanocomposite Alloys HILL, STEPHANI A 21d
18356591 OLIGONUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF BRETZ, COREY LANE

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18056117 PEPTIDE CONJUGATES OF PEPTIDIC TUBULIN INHIBITORS AS THERAPEUTICS REYNOLDS, FRED H 98d overdue
18471413 COMPOSITIONS OF EXENDIN-4 DERIVATIVES HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 89d overdue
16434869 Fe-Ni Nanocomposite Alloys HILL, STEPHANI A 21d
18372753 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS VALLE, ERNESTO 34d
19420848 TREATMENT OF POST-BARIATRIC HYPOGLYCEMIA BOWLES, DAVID PAUL
19358715 GLP-1R ANTAGONISM TO IMPROVE NUTRITION FOLLOWING GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY SABILA, MERCY HELLEN
19353711 BUFFERED FORMULATIONS OF EXENDIN (9-39) SABILA, MERCY HELLEN
18271121 PROCESS FOR PREPARING A CONJUGATE LINKING MOIETY MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16544
16231
16351
16521
16581
17351

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19420848 TREATMENT OF POST-BARIATRIC HYPOGLYCEMIA Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1654 DP Final Rejection Pending Dec 16, 2025
19358715 GLP-1R ANTAGONISM TO IMPROVE NUTRITION FOLLOWING GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 1654 DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2025
19353711 BUFFERED FORMULATIONS OF EXENDIN (9-39) The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 1654 DP Final Rejection Pending Oct 09, 2025
18372753 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. VALLE, ERNESTO 1623 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18471413 COMPOSITIONS OF EXENDIN-4 DERIVATIVES Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1654 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2023
18356591 OLIGONUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. BRETZ, COREY LANE 1635 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 21, 2023
18271121 PROCESS FOR PREPARING A CONJUGATE LINKING MOIETY Cybrexa 2, Inc. MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y 1652 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 06, 2023
18056117 PEPTIDE CONJUGATES OF PEPTIDIC TUBULIN INHIBITORS AS THERAPEUTICS Cybrexa 4, Inc. REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 Other Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2022
16434869 Fe-Ni Nanocomposite Alloys Carnegie Mellon University HILL, STEPHANI A 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 21d AI Ready Jun 07, 2019

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