Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: AUGER, NOAH ANDREW

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 1671 1682 1687 2671

This examiner grants 35% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

34.9%
Allow Rate
-27.1% vs TC avg
87
Total Applications
+34.9%
Interview Lift
1577
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 43 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

29.6%
§101 Eligibility
10.5%
§102 Novelty
27.9%
§103 Obviousness
25.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17314513 GENOME SEQUENCING AND DETECTION TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA ILLUMINA, INC.
17175546 Artificial Intelligence-Based Base Calling of Index Sequences Final Rejection Illumina, Inc.
17390505 RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF OPTIMIZED COMBINATIONS OF INPUT PARAMETERS FOR A COMPLEX SYSTEM Non-Final OA THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
17797677 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SAMPLES OF INTEREST BY COMPARING ALIGNED TIME-SERIES MEASUREMENTS Non-Final OA BASF SE
17587797 MULTIPOLE MOMENT BASED COARSE GRAINED REPRESENTATION OF ANTIBODY ELECTROSTATICS Final Rejection GENENTECH, INC.
17291700 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17756211 Protein Structure Prediction Non-Final OA Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC
17204636 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING RESPONDERS TO TREATMENT Final Rejection REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
17459652 SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATES FOR GENETIC TESTING USING CLINICAL DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Vanderbilt University
17657892 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING HEALTH THREATS WHEN TRAVELING Final Rejection THE BOEING COMPANY
17141841 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR HIGH-PRECISION BEHAVIOR PROFILING FOR TRANSPLANTING WITH HUMANS' INTELLIGENCE INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology
15759659 PEPTIDE ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND PEPTIDE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM Non-Final OA Shimadzu Corporation
17332719 ASSIGNING PEPTIDES TO PEPTIDE GROUPS FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
17815129 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANNOTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIOMEDICAL TEXT HAVING BACTERIAL ASSOCIATIONS Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
17347062 CLOUD-BASED PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR NON-INVASIVE REAL-TIME URINALYSIS Final Rejection Analog Devices, Inc.
17816869 MULTIPLE MEASUREMENT MODE IN A PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSOR Non-Final OA Masimo Corporation
17352087 IDENTIFICATION OF GLOBAL SEQUENCE FEATURES IN WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCE DATA FROM CIRCULATING NUCLEIC ACID Final Rejection Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
17140047 METHODS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING SAMPLES AND WOUNDS, PREDICTING WHETHER A WOUND WILL HEAL, AND MONITORING EFFECTIVENESS OF A TREATMENT Non-Final OA Drexel University
17051363 METHOD FOR SELECTING PATIENT SPECIFIC THERAPY Non-Final OA YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD.
17133998 METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF GENOME-WIDE COPY NUMBER CHANGES, cnLOH, INDELS, AND GENE MUTATIONS Non-Final OA Agilent Technologies, Inc.
17272986 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POLYMER SEQUENCE Final Rejection Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited
18391323 ENCODED ASSAYS Non-Final OA Pleno, Inc.
17429192 Systems and Methods for Predicting the Olfactory Properties of Molecules Using Machine Learning Final Rejection Osmo Labs, PBC
18241786 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENOTYPING AND PHENOTYPING CANNABIS Non-Final OA LeafWorks Inc.
17105175 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING LONGITUDINAL BIOLOGICAL FEATURE DATA Final Rejection GRAIL, Inc.
17623929 IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE COMPOUNDS FOR TARGETING A GENE Non-Final OA BENEVOLENTAI TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
17896355 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING ANCESTRAL RELATEDNESS Non-Final OA Embark Veterinary, Inc.
17778684 METHOD FOR ESTIMATING HEAT TRANSFER ENERGY PARAMETERS IN AN ENCEPHALON Non-Final OA FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA' GRANDA - OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO
17669790 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSES OF A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE Final Rejection National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth University
17432183 Method and System for Microbiome-Derived Companion Diagnostics Final Rejection PSOMAGEN INC.

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