Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

K&L Gates - Novartis

12 pending office actions • 2 clients • 10 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
6
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
6
Unknown (50%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (50%)
No statute on record6 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

12
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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUYNH, PHUONG N 2 65.7% +53.3%
REDDIG, PETER J 2 58.0% +40.0%
HALVORSON, MARK 1 48.0% +21.6%
GRABER, JAMES J 1 46.2% +56.1%
CANELLA, KAREN A 1 62.6% +32.9%
EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1 57.4% +67.0%
CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT 1 55.8% +29.6%
BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1 63.7% +39.7%
LU, CHENG 1 54.1% +67.9%
MARTINEZ, TARA L 1 62.7% +64.6%

Interview Candidates (12)

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
16435257 TREATMENT OF CANCER USING ANTI-CD19 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 132d overdue
18351151 BIOMARKERS PREDICTIVE OF CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME HALVORSON, MARK 112d overdue
17161929 CHO CELL EXPRESSED HET IL-15 CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT 86d overdue
18148807 TREATMENT OF CANCER USING A CD123 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR REDDIG, PETER J 66d overdue
18309370 CELLS EXPRESSING MULTIPLE CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) MOLECULES AND USES THEREFORE GRABER, JAMES J 44d overdue
16317943 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME USING A CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR IN COMBINATION WITH A KINASE INHIBITOR LU, CHENG 38d overdue
18629314 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE PROTEIN DEGRADATION HUYNH, PHUONG N 30d overdue
17433812 MESOPOROUS SILICA PARTICLES COMPOSITIONS FOR VIRAL DELIVERY EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 30d overdue

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
University of Pennsylvania 7
Novartis 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16463
16412
16432
16311
16321
16741
16421
16541

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18629314 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE PROTEIN DEGRADATION Novartis AG HUYNH, PHUONG N 1641 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18351151 BIOMARKERS PREDICTIVE OF CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania HALVORSON, MARK 1646 §103 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18339565 CD20 THERAPIES, CD22 THERAPIES, AND COMBINATION THERAPIES WITH A CD19 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR)-EXPRESSING CELL The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania REDDIG, PETER J 1646 Other Final Rejection 55d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18309370 CELLS EXPRESSING MULTIPLE CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) MOLECULES AND USES THEREFORE The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania GRABER, JAMES J 1631 Other Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2023
18178886 SPECIFIC SITES FOR MODIFYING ANTIBODIES TO MAKE IMMUNOCONJUGATES Novartis AG HUYNH, PHUONG N 1641 Other Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
18148807 TREATMENT OF CANCER USING A CD123 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania REDDIG, PETER J 1646 Other Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
18061824 COMBINATION THERAPIES Novartis AG CANELLA, KAREN A 1643 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 05, 2022
17433812 MESOPOROUS SILICA PARTICLES COMPOSITIONS FOR VIRAL DELIVERY Novartis AG EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2021
17161929 CHO CELL EXPRESSED HET IL-15 Novartis AG CARTER, SANDRA DILLAHUNT 1674 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2021
16435257 TREATMENT OF CANCER USING ANTI-CD19 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE 1643 Other Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2019
16317943 TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME USING A CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR IN COMBINATION WITH A KINASE INHIBITOR The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania LU, CHENG 1642 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2019
16093758 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE PROTEIN EXPRESSION The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania MARTINEZ, TARA L 1654 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2018

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