Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Grund Intellectual Property Group

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

Quality Metrics (n=77 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

67.8%
Allowance Rate
n=77
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=77
4.2
OAs to Allowance
n=40
+0.28σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=40
1260 days
Time to Allowance
n=40
+18.5pp
Interview Lift
n=77
33.9%
RCE Rate
n=77
1.1%
Appeal Rate
n=77

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=0 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=4 (min 20)
56.0%
§103 Overcome
n=25
§112 Overcome
n=10 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, C12N
Top CPC Subclasses
37%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=77
1
Practitioners
n=77
77.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=77

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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 (3)Due ≤ 30 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 (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

5
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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FOLEY, SHANON A 1 73.3% +18.0%
ZARA, JANE J 1 70.8% +16.1%
DAVIS, RUTH A 1 60.8% +31.2%
DHAR, MATASHA 1 44.3% +49.4%
YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1 67.5% +42.9%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17642054 METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RAAV AND METHOD FOR THE IN VITRO GENERATION OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED, LINEAR, SINGLE-STRANDED NUCLEIC ACID FRAGMENTS CONTAINING ITR SEQUENCES FLANKING A GENE OF INTEREST YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 9d overdue
18349989 NOVEL COMPOSITIONS BASED ON POLYINOSINIC-POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID ZARA, JANE J 8d overdue
18546427 GENETICALLY MODIFIED CLOSTRIDIUM STRAINS EXPRESSING RECOMBINANT ANTIGENS AND USES THEREOF FOLEY, SHANON A 5d overdue
17767725 METHOD FOR PREVENTING HUMAN GLANDS FROM RADIATION DAMAGE DAVIS, RUTH A 8d
17765804 TREATMENT OF DISEASES CAUSED BY FRAME SHIFT MUTATIONS DHAR, MATASHA

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16711
16371
16991
16321
16571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18546427 GENETICALLY MODIFIED CLOSTRIDIUM STRAINS EXPRESSING RECOMBINANT ANTIGENS AND USES THEREOF Livingmed Biotech S.r.l. FOLEY, SHANON A 1671 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023
18349989 NOVEL COMPOSITIONS BASED ON POLYINOSINIC-POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID Highlight Therapeutics, S.L. ZARA, JANE J 1637 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
17767725 METHOD FOR PREVENTING HUMAN GLANDS FROM RADIATION DAMAGE Merz Therapeutics GmbH DAVIS, RUTH A 1699 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 08, 2022
17765804 TREATMENT OF DISEASES CAUSED BY FRAME SHIFT MUTATIONS Christian Kupatt DHAR, MATASHA 1632 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 31, 2022
17642054 METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RAAV AND METHOD FOR THE IN VITRO GENERATION OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED, LINEAR, SINGLE-STRANDED NUCLEIC ACID FRAGMENTS CONTAINING ITR SEQUENCES FLANKING A GENE OF INTEREST UNIVERSITÄT BIELEFELD YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2022

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