Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 1636 1687 2857

This examiner grants 9% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

9.1%
Allow Rate
-58.9% vs TC avg
70
Total Applications
+45.0%
Interview Lift
1567
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 22 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

33.4%
§101 Eligibility
9.6%
§102 Novelty
35.4%
§103 Obviousness
13.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17459743 COMPUTATIONAL DETECTION OF COPY NUMBER VARIATION AT A LOCUS IN THE ABSENCE OF DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE LOCUS Non-Final OA GUARDANT HEALTH, INC.
18113252 CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
17521023 TRAIT PREDICTION MODEL GENERATION APPARATUS, TRAIT PREDICTION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TRAIT PREDICTION MODEL Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18225098 COMPUTING AFFINITY FOR PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION Final Rejection ImmunityBio, Inc.
17518953 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MOLECULE BINDING SITE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
19365119 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING CELL-TYPE-SPECIFIC ACTIVITY OF ONE OR MORE UNTRANSLATED REGION RNA SEQUENCES Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
18000406 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE Non-Final OA MARS, INCORPORATED
17565282 METHOD FOR TRAINING COMPOUND PROPERTY PREDICTION MODEL AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING COMPOUND PROPERTY Final Rejection Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
17402049 BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION USING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG) SIGNALS Non-Final OA ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
17459368 DEEP LEARNING AND ALIGNMENT OF SPATIALLY-RESOLVED WHOLE TRANSCRIPTOMES OF SINGLE CELLS Non-Final OA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18190623 AUTOMATED PLATFORM TO TREAT TRAUMA-INDUCED COAGULOPATHY WITH PERSONALIZED COAGULATION FACTOR CONCENTRATIONS Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of Colorado
17472315 ENSEMBLE GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK BASED SIMULATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE SPECIFIC BIOMEDICAL SIGNALS Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
17652796 MOLECULAR DESCRIPTORS BASED ON DISTANCE BETWEEN SUBSTRUCTURES Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18247776 INFERRING PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE Non-Final OA Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
17565696 SEGMENTATION AND LABELING FOR SINGLE MOLECULE SEQUENCING Non-Final OA Seagate Technology LLC
17439374 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CLASSIFY ANTIBODIES Non-Final OA ETH ZURICH

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