Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
23andMe Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct art units, showing that every pending matter falls into a unique technical classification. The company is interacting with 6 distinct examiners, which means that every pending office action is being handled by a different individual. This distribution reflects a diverse range of technical applications for the company's intellectual property within this specific technology area.
DUNHAM, JASON B is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 case. The presence of 6 distinct art units for 6 actions highlights the high degree of technical variety and the lack of concentration in any single specialized group. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate 6 different examiner styles and 6 different art unit environments, as there is no concentration of cases under any single person or group. This decentralized structure requires a customized prosecution strategy for each of the 6 individual applications currently under review.
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.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (29%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNHAM, JASON B | 1 | 26.8% | +27.3% |
| ABRISHAMKAR, KAVEH | 1 | 78.2% | +17.1% |
| HASAN, SYED HAROON | 1 | 81.6% | +15.5% |
| COBANOGLU, DILEK B | 1 | 33.2% | +27.3% |
| PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 1 | 79.4% | +12.6% |
| BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 1 | 43.9% | +65.7% |
| VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT | 1 | 80.4% | +3.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18096868 | Estimation of Admixture Generation | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 34d |
| 17693245 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AND DISPLAYING PEDIGREES | VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT | 34d |
| 18762304 | Finding Relatives in a Database | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 70d |
| 18901887 | COHORT SELECTION WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION | HASAN, SYED HAROON | 84d |
| 19206774 | FORMATTING AND STORAGE OF GENETIC MARKERS | DUNHAM, JASON B | — |
| 19057224 | IDENTITY-BY-DESCENT RELATEDNESS BASED ON FOCAL AND REFERENCE SEGMENTS | ABRISHAMKAR, KAVEH | — |
| 18775352 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND DISPLAYING GENETIC INFORMATION BETWEEN FAMILY MEMBERS | COBANOGLU, DILEK B | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18096868 | Estimation of Admixture Generation | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 34d |
| 18762304 | Finding Relatives in a Database | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 70d |
| 18901887 | COHORT SELECTION WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION | HASAN, SYED HAROON | 84d |
| 19206774 | FORMATTING AND STORAGE OF GENETIC MARKERS | DUNHAM, JASON B | — |
| 19057224 | IDENTITY-BY-DESCENT RELATEDNESS BASED ON FOCAL AND REFERENCE SEGMENTS | ABRISHAMKAR, KAVEH | — |
| 18775352 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND DISPLAYING GENETIC INFORMATION BETWEEN FAMILY MEMBERS | COBANOGLU, DILEK B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2154 | 2 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| 2123 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19206774 | FORMATTING AND STORAGE OF GENETIC MARKERS | DUNHAM, JASON B | 3686 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19057224 | IDENTITY-BY-DESCENT RELATEDNESS BASED ON FOCAL AND REFERENCE SEGMENTS | ABRISHAMKAR, KAVEH | 2494 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18901887 | COHORT SELECTION WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION | HASAN, SYED HAROON | 2154 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18775352 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND DISPLAYING GENETIC INFORMATION BETWEEN FAMILY MEMBERS | COBANOGLU, DILEK B | 3687 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18762304 | Finding Relatives in a Database | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18096868 | Estimation of Admixture Generation | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 1685 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17693245 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING AND DISPLAYING PEDIGREES | VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT | 2123 | §101 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 11, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial23andMe Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Jason B Dunham has the most, with 1 of 23andMe Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
