Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Proskauer Rose LLP

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

23 pending office actions • 12 clients • 21 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

PROSKAUER ROSE LLP has 25 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 2886 career applications. The profile reflects an active unresolved workload supported by a broad application record.

The resolved allowance rate is 71.14%, and the average is 3.62 office actions per allowance. The reported allowance result and office-action average together indicate both the outcome profile and the prosecution activity associated with allowed matters. Practitioners can use the distinction to assess historical resolution separately from current docket volume.

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

Quality Metrics (n=2886 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

71.1%
Allowance Rate
n=2886
+0.61σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2886
3.6
OAs to Allowance
n=1262
-0.11σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1262
1229 days
Time to Allowance
n=1262
+14.9pp
Interview Lift
n=2886
26.3%
RCE Rate
n=2886
2.4%
Appeal Rate
n=2886

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

74.1%
§101 Overcome
n=263
71.2%
§102 Overcome
n=483
73.2%
§103 Overcome
n=852
75.2%
§112 Overcome
n=612

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2886
23
Practitioners
n=2886
125.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=2886

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
6
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

9
Hard (39%)
10
Medium (43%)
4
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (9%)
§112 only3 (13%)
Double-patenting only1 (4%)
Double-patenting + other8 (35%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (39%)

Industry Mix

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

23
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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 2 56.6% +37.2%
DAVIS, RUTH A 2 60.9% +31.0%
DUFFY, BRADLEY 1 54.4% +46.0%
ESSEX, LAURA ANN 1 60.0% +35.8%
DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 1 52.9% +33.9%
GANGLE, BRIAN J 1 76.8% +14.6%
MOU, LIYUAN 1 43.8% +59.9%
JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J 1 69.0% +20.8%
GRASER, JENNIFER E 1 76.8% +23.2%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1 63.8% +41.2%

Hard Cases (9)

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
18258914 HOMOGENEOUS BIOPOLYMER SUSPENSIONS, PROCESSES FOR MAKING SAME AND USES THEREOF BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE 79d overdue
19086136 FIVE-MEMBERED-FUSED SIX-MEMBERED COMPOUND, PREPARATION METHOD, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE MOU, LIYUAN 9d
17759674 TREATMENT OF SKIN CONDITIONS DAVIS, RUTH A 40d
19309183 CHIMERIC NEUROTOXINS DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN —
18914188 TREATMENT OF AUTONOMIC DISORDERS WITH BOTULINUM TOXIN JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J —
18711047 TREATMENT OF VISCERAL PAIN GRASER, JENNIFER E —
18003570 CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A BIOREACTOR VESSEL CLARKE, TRENT R —
18003489 TREATMENT OF POST-OPERATIVE SURGICAL PAIN RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM —

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
19086136 FIVE-MEMBERED-FUSED SIX-MEMBERED COMPOUND, PREPARATION METHOD, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE MOU, LIYUAN 9d
18096899 TREATMENT OF MODERATE TO VERY SEVERE GLABELLAR LINES AND LATERAL CANTHAL LINES DAVIS, RUTH A 34d
17759674 TREATMENT OF SKIN CONDITIONS DAVIS, RUTH A 40d
19668578 METHODS FOR TREATING IgG4-RELATED DISEASES DUFFY, BRADLEY —
19532470 TREATMENT OF RECURRENT PERICARDITIS BY DELIVERY OF ANTI-INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY ESSEX, LAURA ANN —
19309183 CHIMERIC NEUROTOXINS DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN —
19189864 LIQUID NEUROTOXIN FORMULATION STABILIZED WITH TRYPTOPHAN OR TYROSINE GANGLE, BRIAN J —
18914188 TREATMENT OF AUTONOMIC DISORDERS WITH BOTULINUM TOXIN JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J —

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16455
16432
16752
16572
16512
16992
16281
16291
16191
16411

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19668578 METHODS FOR TREATING IgG4-RELATED DISEASES Xencor, Inc. DUFFY, BRADLEY 1643 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 05, 2026
19532470 TREATMENT OF RECURRENT PERICARDITIS BY DELIVERY OF ANTI-INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, GmbH ESSEX, LAURA ANN 1675 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 06, 2026
19309183 CHIMERIC NEUROTOXINS Ipsen Biopharm Limited DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 1645 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 25, 2025
19189864 LIQUID NEUROTOXIN FORMULATION STABILIZED WITH TRYPTOPHAN OR TYROSINE Ipsen Biopharm Limited GANGLE, BRIAN J 1645 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2025
19086136 FIVE-MEMBERED-FUSED SIX-MEMBERED COMPOUND, PREPARATION METHOD, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND USE Hangzhou Polymed Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. MOU, LIYUAN 1628 §103§112Other Final Rejection 9d Pending Mar 21, 2025
18914188 TREATMENT OF AUTONOMIC DISORDERS WITH BOTULINUM TOXIN Ipsen Biopharm Limited JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J 1645 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 13, 2024
18711047 TREATMENT OF VISCERAL PAIN Ipsen Biopharm Limited GRASER, JENNIFER E 1645 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2024
18711074 TREATMENT OF PAIN Ipsen Biopharm Limited OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2024
18690479 Modified Bont/A for Use in the Treatment of a Disorder Affecting an Eyelid Muscle of a Subject Ipsen Biopharm Limited SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1657 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 08, 2024
18690378 Modified Bont/A for Use in the Treatment of Cervical Dystonia Ipsen Biopharm Limited SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1657 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 08, 2024
18506625 MACROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF Theseus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 1629 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18499051 ANTIBODY MOLECULE FOR HUMAN GM-CSF RECEPTOR ALPHA Zenyth Operations Pty. Ltd. NATARAJAN, MEERA 1643 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2023
18552457 CATALYTICALLY INACTIVE CLOSTRIDIAL NEUROTOXINS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN & INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS Ipsen Biopharm Limited PAGUIO FRISING, MICHELLE F 1651 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2023
18466911 PD-1 AGONIST ANTIBODIES Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. DONOGHUE, BRITTNEY ERIN 1675 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 14, 2023
18258914 HOMOGENEOUS BIOPOLYMER SUSPENSIONS, PROCESSES FOR MAKING SAME AND USES THEREOF 11584022 Canada Inc. BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE 1619 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2023
18183588 SELECTION OF RESPONDERS FOR ANTI-BTN3A TREATMENT Imcheck Therapeutics SAS ROONEY, NORA MAUREEN 1641 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2023
18096899 TREATMENT OF MODERATE TO VERY SEVERE GLABELLAR LINES AND LATERAL CANTHAL LINES Ipsen Biopharm Limited DAVIS, RUTH A 1699 §112DPOther Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 13, 2023
18003570 CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A BIOREACTOR VESSEL Ipsen Biopharm Limited CLARKE, TRENT R 1651 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 28, 2022
18003489 TREATMENT OF POST-OPERATIVE SURGICAL PAIN Ipsen Biopharm Limited RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM 1652 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 27, 2022
17759674 TREATMENT OF SKIN CONDITIONS Ipsen Biopharm Limited DAVIS, RUTH A 1699 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 40d Pending Jul 28, 2022
17776533 NOVEL FUNCTIONALIZED LACTAMS AS MODULATORS OF THE 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE RECEPTOR 7 AND THEIR METHOD OF USE Praeventix, LLC RICCI, CRAIG D 1611 DP Final Rejection 9d Pending May 12, 2022
17275740 RNA POLYMERASE FOR SYNTHESIS OF MODIFIED RNA Guardian Therapeutics, LLC PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH 1634 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2021
15733195 COVALENT MULTI-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES Chimagen Biosciences, Ltd. DEBERRY, REGINA M 1647 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 08, 2020

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Proskauer Rose LLP's patent allowance rate?

71.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Proskauer Rose LLP were allowed, across 2,886 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Proskauer Rose LLP average before allowance?

3.62 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Proskauer Rose LLP have?

23 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 12 clients, before 21 examiners in 14 art units.

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