Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1632

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

64.3%
Allow Rate
+4.3% vs TC avg
882
Total Applications
+29.6%
Interview Lift
1250
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 843 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.4%
§101 Eligibility
19.8%
§102 Novelty
24.4%
§103 Obviousness
40.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19361182 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PRODUCING GRANULOSA-LIKE CELLS Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
18513227 Methods of Treating Muscular Dystrophy Final Rejection RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
17773281 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR TARGETING CANCER CELLS Non-Final OA The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
18267980 DELIVERY OF ABETA VARIANTS FOR AGGREGATION INHIBITION Non-Final OA Baylor College of Medicine
17998233 CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR FOR TREATMENT OF CANCER Non-Final OA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
17045412 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SOMATIC CELL REPROGRAMMING AND MODULATING IMPRINTING Final Rejection Children's Medical Center Corporation
16341508 UNDIFFERENTIATED STEM CELL-REMOVING AGENT, AND METHOD FOR REMOVING UNDIFFERENTIATED STEM CELLS Non-Final OA KEIO UNIVERSITY
18161546 METHODS OF DIFFERENTIATION TO NEURONAL CELLS AND KITS THEREFOR Final Rejection LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
17226642 Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Expansion System Final Rejection LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
17756386 CAR T CELLS WITH ENHANCED METABOLIC FITNESS Final Rejection H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC.
18010946 PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED HEART ORGANOID Final Rejection Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
17998183 FIBROBLAST BASED THERAPY FOR TREATMENT OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE Non-Final OA FIGENE, LLC
18488859 TREATMENT OF CANAVAN DISEASE Non-Final OA CITY OF HOPE
18591734 MIDBRAIN DOPAMINE (DA) NEURONS FOR ENGRAFTMENT Non-Final OA MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
17771723 GENE EDITING OF TUMOR INFILTRATING LYMPHOCYTES AND USES OF SAME IN IMMUNOTHERAPY Final Rejection Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.
17833506 METHOD FOR CULTURING MYOGENIC CELLS, CULTURES OBTAINED THEREFROM, SCREENING METHODS, AND CELL CULTURE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
18415477 ARTIFICIAL NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES Final Rejection CureVac SE
18566898 GENETICALLY MODIFIED NON-HUMAN ANIMAL WITH HUMAN OR CHIMERIC TFR1 Non-Final OA Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
18508761 NUCLEIC ACID CONSTRUCTS ENCODING REPROGRAMMING FACTORS LINKED BY SELF-CLEAVING PEPTIDES Non-Final OA Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research
18504238 METHODS OF PRODUCING HUMAN RPE CELLS AND PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS OF HUMAN RPE CELLS Final Rejection Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine
18502249 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING NON-HUMAN TISSUE ENGINEERED MEAT PRODUCTS Non-Final OA MYOS CORP.
17723119 RNA VIRUS VECTORS CARRYING DAI AND RIPK3 Final Rejection Institute For Cancer Research d/b/a The Research Institute Of Fox Chase Cancer Center
18456148 HUMAN IPSC-BASED DERIVATION OF NK AND T-CELLS USING EARLY NOTCH INDUCTION Final Rejection BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
18361571 GENE THERAPY VECTORS FOR TREATING HEART DISEASE Non-Final OA Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc.
18074272 DORSALLY-DERIVED OLIGODENDROCYTE PROGENITOR CELLS FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS Final Rejection Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc.
16971242 INHIBITION OF ZSCAN4 FOR INHIBITION OF TUMOR GROWTH Final Rejection University of Maryland, Baltimore
18332823 METHODS OF INCREASING GROWTH OF CORALS USING A BIOCERAMIC Non-Final OA NOVUM CORAL, INC.
17040246 METHOD FOR REPROGRAMMING SOMATIC CELLS Non-Final OA UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1
18106327 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENERATING HUMAN INDUCED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS Non-Final OA SmartCella Solutions AB
18012840 BIFUNCTIONAL BRIDGING COMPOSITIONS FOR VIRAL TRANSDUCTION Non-Final OA Lycia Therapeutics, Inc.

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