Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ancestry.com DNA, LLC has 4 pending office actions in Computing & Software. Each action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, so the available portfolio shows no repeated assignment at either level.
LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should rely on application-specific analysis and preserve consistent treatment of software and data-related claim language across the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | 1 | 92.8% | +7.9% |
| MOSER, BRUCE M | 1 | 84.2% | +20.1% |
| LIN, JERRY | 1 | 72.2% | +14.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19334627 | GENERATING AND POPULATING DATA-LINK TREES FROM RELATIONSHIP CLUSTERS | LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767926 | DETERMINING LABELS OF INHERITANCE DATASETS USING SIMULATED DATA INSTANCES | MOSER, BRUCE M | 19d |
| 18207631 | ESTIMATION OF PHENOTYPES USING DNA, PEDIGREE, AND HISTORICAL DATA | LIN, JERRY | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767926 | DETERMINING LABELS OF INHERITANCE DATASETS USING SIMULATED DATA INSTANCES | MOSER, BRUCE M | 19d |
| 18207631 | ESTIMATION OF PHENOTYPES USING DNA, PEDIGREE, AND HISTORICAL DATA | LIN, JERRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2166 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19334627 | GENERATING AND POPULATING DATA-LINK TREES FROM RELATIONSHIP CLUSTERS | LEWIS, CHERYL RENEA | 2166 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 18767926 | DETERMINING LABELS OF INHERITANCE DATASETS USING SIMULATED DATA INSTANCES | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18207631 | ESTIMATION OF PHENOTYPES USING DNA, PEDIGREE, AND HISTORICAL DATA | LIN, JERRY | 1671 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAncestry.com DNA, LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Cheryl Renea Lewis has the most, with 1 of Ancestry.com DNA, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
