Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Goodwin Procter LLP

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

395 pending office actions • 190 clients • 326 examiners • 129 art units • 0 of 395 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

This profile covers Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and shows 392 pending office actions. The record includes 12363 career applications, indicating a substantial prosecution portfolio with a large active workload.

The resolved allowance rate is 74.48%, and the average is 3.52 office actions per allowance. Resolved outcomes show that allowances occurred in a majority of matters, while the action average indicates that allowance commonly followed several examination events.

The scale of the pending docket makes prioritization and consistent response strategy important. Practitioners can use the allowance rate to frame expected outcome performance and the action average to anticipate the examination effort associated with moving matters toward allowance.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=12363 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

74.5%
Allowance Rate
n=12363
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=12363
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=5053
-0.10σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5053
1072 days
Time to Allowance
n=5053
+18.2pp
Interview Lift
n=12363
28.7%
RCE Rate
n=12363
2.1%
Appeal Rate
n=12363

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

68.0%
§101 Overcome
n=833
68.5%
§102 Overcome
n=2124
69.7%
§103 Overcome
n=3591
71.7%
§112 Overcome
n=2934

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, C07K
Top CPC Subclasses
33%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=12363
83
Practitioners
n=12363
149.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=12363

Portfolio Summary

395
Total Pending OAs
244
Non-Final OAs
145
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 116 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

57
Overdue
8
Due this week
30
Due this month
15
Due in next 60 days
6
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. 116 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (57)Due ≤ 7 days (8)Due ≤ 30 days (30)Due ≤ 60 days (15)Due later (6)

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.

195
Hard (49%)
150
Medium (38%)
44
Easy (11%)
6
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (1%)
§101 + other47 (12%)
§103 only86 (22%)
§102 only11 (3%)
§112 only25 (6%)
Double-patenting only19 (5%)
Double-patenting + other53 (13%)
Multi-statute (no §101)144 (36%)
No statute on record6 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

237
Life Sciences
60% of docket
15
Information Tech
4% of docket
7
Communications
2% of docket
23
Semiconductors
6% of docket
105
Mechanical / Eng
27% of docket
8
Business / Other
2% 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.

3,950 h
Manual time on pending OAs
790 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
1,382 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
34.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA 4 72.6% +40.0%
SMALE, AVERY E 4 72.6% +18.4%
HASAN, KHALEDA B 4 59.3% +49.0%
GODDARD, LAURA B 3 50.8% +13.6%
GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 3 42.9% +51.8%
NESTOR, DONNA MICHELLE 3 56.6% +44.2%
KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE 3 84.6% +23.3%
OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 3 73.0% +16.8%
LADD, CAROLYN LOUISE 3 58.6% +47.1%
RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 3 38.2% +48.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17998012 AN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE IONISATION SOURCE KALISZEWSKI, ALINA ROSE —

Hard Cases (195)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18612960 Bispecific Asymmetric Heterodimers Comprising Anti-CD3 Constructs HUYNH, PHUONG N 238d overdue
18145772 SARS-COV-2 SERUM ANTIBODY PROFILING ZOU, NIANXIANG 162d overdue
17800958 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULATING ARGININE LEVELS IN IMMUNE CELLS DHAR, MATASHA 147d overdue
17879923 6-MEMBERED AZA-HETEROCYCLIC CONTAINING DELTA-OPIOID RECEPTOR MODULATING COMPOUNDS, METHODS OF USING AND MAKING THE SAME JAVANMARD, SAHAR 147d overdue
17157043 Dynamically Changing Promotions Displayed on a Mobile Device and Measuring The Benefit Thereof OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 147d overdue
18085792 THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS, COMBINATIONS, AND METHODS OF USE JAVANMARD, SAHAR 142d overdue
18042375 NEBULIZER DEVICE OPTIMIZATION FOR IMPROVED AEROSOL PARAMETERS AND USES THEREOF PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M 104d overdue
17552935 METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR BUILDING AND EXECUTING A CHROMATOGRAPHY WORKFLOW GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 99d overdue

Interview Candidates (33)

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
18306041 COMPRESSION DETECTION AND COMPENSATION FOR A BIOLOGICAL SENSOR SECURED TO A USER GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 58d overdue
18042193 A METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION OF DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 3d overdue
19284259 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DENTAL TREATMENT WITH EKF GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 14d
18454323 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING INSULIN DELIVERY TO ACCOUNT FOR INSULIN RESISTANCE GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 26d
17749449 METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ASSISTED CALIBRATION FOR A MASS SPECTROMETRY APPARATUS OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W 34d
17639401 METHODS OF TREATING EPILEPSY USING THE SAME NESTOR, DONNA MICHELLE 60d
19569819 TRISPECIFIC COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING IL-2, VEGF BINDING DOMAINS, AND PD-1 BINDING DOMAINS GODDARD, LAURA B —
18980378 VPS34 INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF NESTOR, DONNA MICHELLE —

Client Portfolio (190 clients)

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Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
378344
161812
288112
163610
16429
16359
16279
16258
16268
16238

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19569819 TRISPECIFIC COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING IL-2, VEGF BINDING DOMAINS, AND PD-1 BINDING DOMAINS Bright Peak Therapeutics AG GODDARD, LAURA B 1642 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2026
19548526 HIGH PURITY COPPER RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS AND DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC USES THEREOF University of Basel PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN 1618 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 24, 2026
19545401 FORMULATIONS OF VIMSELTINIB Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, LLC PAK, JOHN D 1699 §103§112DP Final Rejection — Pending Feb 20, 2026
19544595 FORMULATIONS OF VIMSELTINIB Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, LLC LEE, SIN J 1613 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 19, 2026
19434846 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR THE TREATMENT OF RADIATION INDUCED TOXICITY Zydus Lifesciences Limited OH, TAYLOR V 1625 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 29, 2025
19433697 METHODS OF TREATING AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION Character Biosciences, Inc. HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1654 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 26, 2025
19432924 AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF PURIFICATION OF PROTEIN Kashiv Biosciences, LLC REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1651 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 24, 2025
19432904 AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF PURIFICATION OF PROTEIN Kashiv Biosciences, LLC MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE 1776 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 24, 2025
19425391 USE OF CYCLODEXTRINS AS A RADIOSTABILIZER GE Healthcare Limited MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 18, 2025
19397828 TREATMENT OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHY USING ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS Perfuse Therapeutics, Inc. BASQUILL, SEAN M 1614 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 21, 2025
19348728 ORAL MUCOSAL FORMULATIONS OF ASPIRIN Aspire Biopharma Holdings, Inc. SONG, JIANFENG 1613 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Oct 02, 2025
19344208 CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEM WITH A RESONANT EXPANDER R7 Instruments, Inc. LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS 3746 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 29, 2025
19339016 TIERED TESTING FOR HIGH RISK POPULATIONS Harbinger Health, Inc. SMITH, EMILIE ALINE 1686 §101§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 24, 2025
19338730 TRANSDERMAL DEXMEDETOMIDINE FOR TREATING AGITATION Teikoku Pharma Usa, Inc. HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Sep 24, 2025
19288411 MULTI-TIERED TESTING FOR TRACKING DISEASE HETEROGENEITY Flagship Pioneering Innovations Vi, LLC SKIBINSKY, ANNA 1635 §101§103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2025
19284259 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DENTAL TREATMENT WITH EKF T33 Dental, Inc. GONZALEZ, LEI NMN 3783 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 29, 2025
19282184 PROCESS OF PURIFICATION OF PROTEIN Kashiv Biosciences, LLC ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN 1641 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 28, 2025
19244554 METHODS TO MODIFY BEHAVIORS TO MITIGATE IMPACT OF PREDICTION INACCURACIES FOR LATER TIME WINDOWS IN AMD SYSTEMS Insulet Corporation GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L 3683 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 20, 2025
19220387 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ASSET IMPORTANCE IN SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT Bitsight Technologies, Inc. MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 2453 DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 28, 2025
19211805 ON-BODY INTERLOCK FOR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE Insulet Corporation STIGELL, THEODORE J 3783 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 19, 2025
19197571 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA STRUCTURE ANALYSIS Gestalt Tech Corp. SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 2161 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending May 02, 2025
19196457 IgE PROTEASES AND USES THEREOF Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. DESAI, ANAND U 1655 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 01, 2025
19187537 ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTUATORS AND ACTUATOR ARRAYS Insulet Corporation LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW 3746 §103 Final Rejection 43d Pending Apr 23, 2025
19180988 EARLY MEAL DETECTION AND CALORIE INTAKE DETECTION Insulet Corporation DUNHAM, JASON B 3686 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 16, 2025
19172026 IMAGE-BASED DETECTION OF OPHTHALMIC AND SYSTEMIC DISEASES Antinous Technology Company Limited WINDSOR, COURTNEY J 2661 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 07, 2025
19171119 SYSTEM TO CREATE CELLULAR LYSIS AND DELIVER FLUIDS INTRATUMORALLY Syncromune, Inc. SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE 3794 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 04, 2025
19087070 POLY-DONOR CD4+ T CELLS EXPRESSING IL-10 AND USES THEREOF Tr1X, Inc. NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 21, 2025
19084902 AUTOMATED PLATFORM FOR GENERATING INTERACTIVE VIDEOS Jbf Interlude 2009 Ltd. OCAK, ADIL 2426 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 20, 2025
19079820 IMAGE-GUIDED ROBOTIC SYSTEM WITH REMOTE GUIDANCE, IMAGE STEERING, MULTI-PLANE IMAGING, NEEDLE VISUALIZATION ENHANCEMENT, AND CONSTRAINED BACKDRIVING Mendaera, Inc. BRUTUS, JOEL F 3797 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2025
19073748 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING ONLINE GAMING Magnetic Games AB ADAMS, CARL 2627 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2025
19068816 ION IDENTIFICATION USING ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY Micromass UK Limited LE, THANG XUAN 2858 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 03, 2025
19047061 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING IMAGES FOR PRECISION TISSUE MICROARRAY CONSTRUCTION Noetik Inc. CROCKETT, JOSHUA BRIGHAM 2661 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 06, 2025
19039593 FABRICATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON NITRIDE FIBERS Bluehalo, LLC DAIGLER, CHRISTOPHER PAUL 1741 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 28, 2025
19035537 APPARATUS FOR GLYCEMIC CONTROL Insulet Corporation KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE 3687 §101§103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2025
19022962 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSET ROUTING Lob.Com, Inc. WALLACE, JOHN R 2682 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
19022649 METHOD FOR PREPARING METALLIC COBALT THIN FILM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING COBALT SILICIDE THIN FILM BEIJING SUPERSTRING ACADEMY OF MEMORY TECHNOLOGY TALBOT, BRIAN K 1712 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 15, 2025
19013936 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNDERGROUND STORAGE OF STORM AND OTHER WATER SOURCES Underground Industries LLC TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J 3678 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 08, 2025
19012213 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS USING MULTIPLE BLOOD PRESSURE SENSORS Aktiia SA YOON, CHANEL J 3791 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 07, 2025
19004969 LOGGING AND ANALYZING ROBOTIC PICKING DATA Oxipital AI Inc. NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE 3658 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Dec 30, 2024
18985953 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A NEW PROSTHESIS Ottobock SE & Co. Kgaa ERDMAN, CHAD G 2116 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 18, 2024
18980378 VPS34 INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, LLC NESTOR, DONNA MICHELLE 1627 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18974588 NINTEDANIB AND NINTEDANIB COMBINATION DRY POWDER COMPOSITIONS AND USES Avalyn Pharma Inc. ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1616 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18971800 SOLID FORMS OF AN ULK INHIBITOR Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, LLC SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18870188 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING GLAUCOMA INCIDENCE AND PROGRESSION USING RETINAL PHOTOGRAPHS Antinous Technology Company Limited FUJITA, KATRINA R 2672 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2024
18958722 COMPOSITE BUILDING MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE Rise Building Products LLC CHOI, PETER Y 1786 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 25, 2024
18953864 CRYSTALLINE FORMS OF ALDH2 MODULATORS Sophrosyne Pharmaceuticals Limited BRAUN, MADELINE E §101§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18945759 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT TARGETED THERAPY DEVELOPMENT Flagship Pioneering Innovations Vi, LLC PAULS, JOHN A 3683 §101§103DP Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2024
18941833 COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS Eleblend LLC PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC 1613 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18941986 3-(SUBSTITUTED-4-OXOQUINAZOLIN-3(4H)-YL)-3-DEUTERO-PIPERIDINE-2,6-DIONE DERIVATIVES AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME Deuterx, LLC WARD, PAUL V 1622 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18938818 COMPACT LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEM PROVIDING THERMAL MANAGEMENT AND DETECTION Waters Technologies Corporation SINGER, DAVID L 2855 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Goodwin Procter LLP's patent allowance rate?

74.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Goodwin Procter LLP were allowed, across 12,363 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Goodwin Procter LLP average before allowance?

3.52 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Goodwin Procter LLP have?

395 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 190 clients, before 326 examiners in 129 art units.

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