Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ANGELL, JON E

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1635 1637 1674

This examiner grants 71% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

70.7%
Allow Rate
+10.7% vs TC avg
850
Total Applications
+21.0%
Interview Lift
1237
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 809 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.7%
§101 Eligibility
25.0%
§102 Novelty
26.8%
§103 Obviousness
25.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18786394 RNA TARGETING OF MUTATIONS VIA SUPPRESSOR tRNAs AND DEAMINASES Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
18014700 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING HOMOLOGY-DIRECTED REPAIR Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
18192108 DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA THAT INHIBITS PRODUCTION OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS PROTEIN AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
17936715 Treatment Of Psychiatric Disorders And Psychiatric Disorder-Associated MRI Phenotypes With Stabilin 1 (STAB1) Inhibitors Non-Final OA Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
19094456 UTILIZATION OF GENE TARGETING ANTIBODY FUSION PROTEINS TO PERFORM IN VIVO THERAPEUTIC GENE EDITING Non-Final OA Baylor College of Medicine
17637427 TARGETING SLC38A2 IN PANCREATIC CANCER Final Rejection New York University
17619232 ANTAGONISTS OF CAMKII-DELTA 9 AND USES THEREOF Final Rejection PEKING UNIVERSITY
17943442 METHOD OF TREATING CANCER AND METHOD OF SENSITIZING CANCER CELLS TO THE ACTION OF CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS VIA GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS OR KNOCK DOWN Final Rejection Ohio University
17998128 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING LEVODOPA DYSKINESIA, ENHANCING MOTOR BENEFIT, AND DELAYING DISEASE PROGRESSION Non-Final OA Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
17126439 HYBRIDIZING ALL-LNA OLIGONUCLEOTIDES Final Rejection Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
17640647 CHIMERIC COMPLEX AND THERAPEUTIC USES THEREOF Non-Final OA CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
18145234 MAMMALIAN CELLS FOR PRODUCING A SECRETED PROTEIN Non-Final OA BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
17384993 MICRO-RNA-155 ENHANCES THE EFFICACY OF DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE FOR CANCER Final Rejection University of South Carolina
17922365 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING EXOGENOUS HOMOLOGOUS DNA AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA SUPERBREWED FOOD, INC.
17982819 CHIRALLY-ENRICHED DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA AGENTS Non-Final OA ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
17697044 GENOMIC SAFE HARBORS FOR TRANSGENE INTEGRATION Non-Final OA MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
17416108 MODULATORS OF HSD17B13 EXPRESSION Final Rejection Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
16948435 Compositions for Modulating C9ORF72 Expression Non-Final OA Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
16482844 RNA CANCER VACCINES Final Rejection ModernaTX, Inc.
17315987 METHODS FOR GENERATING MACROPHAGES WITH ENHANCED CANCER PHAGOCYTOSIS Non-Final OA Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
17920250 NUCLEIC ACID THAT INTERACTS WITH A RECEPTOR FOR ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS AND USE THEREOF Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA
18194740 ANTI-CHYMASE APTAMER AND USE FOR SAME Non-Final OA RIBOMIC INC.
18074268 RNAI AGENTS FOR HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION Non-Final OA Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
18012867 ARTIFICIAL RNAS FOR MODULATING RNA FRAGMENTS Non-Final OA UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA
17961097 GENE CONSTRUCTS FOR SILENCING ANGIOPOIETIN-LIKE 3 (ANGPTL3) AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA uniQure IP B.V.
17751934 RNAI INDUCED HUNTINGTIN GENE SUPPRESSION Final Rejection Uniqure IP B.V.
17623045 NOVEL ADP-RIBOSYL CYCLASE AND INHIBITOR THEREOF Non-Final OA DNT Co., Ltd.
17256092 ARTIFICIAL NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR RNA EDITING Final Rejection Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen

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