Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Moderna Tx)

6 pending office actions • 1 client • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)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%)
2
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (67%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (17%)
Double-patenting + other1 (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
CHESTNUT, BARRY A 2 73.5% +5.9%
LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 2
PAK, YONG D 1 74.4% +13.7%
RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1 40.0% +48.9%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18012094 LNP COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MRNA THERAPEUTICS WITH EXTENDED HALF-LIFE RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 16d overdue
17928680 PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF PAK, YONG D 75d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Moderna 6

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16722
16332
16521
16351

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18286705 EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS MRNA VACCINES Modernatx, Inc. CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1672 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
18282097 THERAPEUTIC USE OF SARS-COV-2 MRNA DOMAIN VACCINES Modernatx, Inc. CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1672 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
17928680 PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE VARIANTS AND USES THEREOF Modernatx, Inc. PAK, YONG D 1652 DPOther Final Rejection 75d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18012094 LNP COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MRNA THERAPEUTICS WITH EXTENDED HALF-LIFE Modernatx, Inc. RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1635 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
17925125 RNA FORMULATIONS FOR HIGH VOLUME DISTRIBUTION, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME FOR TREATING COVID-19 Modernatx, Inc. LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 1633 Other Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022
17925114 RNA FORMULATIONS FOR HIGH VOLUME DISTRIBUTION Modernatx, Inc. LARA, CAROLINE MONSERRAT 1633 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022

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