Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: AUGER, NOAH ANDREW

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 1671 1682 1687 2122 2671

This examiner grants 35% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

34.7%
Allow Rate
-27.3% vs TC avg
86
Total Applications
+40.8%
Interview Lift
1567
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 49 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

32.1%
§101 Eligibility
9.5%
§102 Novelty
27.2%
§103 Obviousness
25.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17756211 Protein Structure Prediction Final Rejection Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC
17291700 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17657892 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING HEALTH THREATS WHEN TRAVELING Non-Final OA THE BOEING COMPANY
17332719 ASSIGNING PEPTIDES TO PEPTIDE GROUPS FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
17797677 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SAMPLES OF INTEREST BY COMPARING ALIGNED TIME-SERIES MEASUREMENTS Non-Final OA BASF SE
18192896 Machine Learning Based Genomics Test Predictor Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17459652 SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATES FOR GENETIC TESTING USING CLINICAL DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Vanderbilt University
17696069 VARIATION POLYGENIC INDEX/SCORE Non-Final OA The Trustees of Princeton University
17133998 METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF GENOME-WIDE COPY NUMBER CHANGES, cnLOH, INDELS, AND GENE MUTATIONS Final Rejection Agilent Technologies, Inc.
17815129 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANNOTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIOMEDICAL TEXT HAVING BACTERIAL ASSOCIATIONS Final Rejection Tata Consultancy Services Limited
17197098 BIOINFORMATICS PROCESSING ORCHESTRATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18109109 MINIMIZING FETAL FRACTION BIAS IN MATERNAL POLYGENIC RISK SCORE ESTIMATION Non-Final OA ILLUMINA, INC.
17314513 GENOME SEQUENCING AND DETECTION TECHNIQUES Final Rejection ILLUMINA, INC.
18268578 TAXONOMY-INDEPENDENT CANCER DIAGNOSTICS AND CLASSIFICATION USING MICROBIAL NUCLEIC ACIDS AND SOMATIC MUTATIONS Non-Final OA Universal Diagnostics, S.A.

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