Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1612 1636 1639 1675 1678 1682 1684

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

63.2%
Allow Rate
+3.2% vs TC avg
692
Total Applications
+41.0%
Interview Lift
1542
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 657 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.6%
§101 Eligibility
8.8%
§102 Novelty
40.1%
§103 Obviousness
35.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
16817458 CROSS-LINKED EPITOPES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Final Rejection REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
17182044 GENE EXPRESSION-BASED BIOMARKER FOR THE DETECTION AND MONITORING OF BRONCHIAL PREMALIGNANT LESIONS Final Rejection Trustees of Boston University
18940636 PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR PREPARATION OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIES PREPARED USING SAME Non-Final OA 10x Genomics, Inc.
18659813 MACROMOLECULE ANALYSIS EMPLOYING NUCLEIC ACID ENCODING Final Rejection Encodia, Inc.
17642800 Micro-Radiobinding Assays for Ligand Screening Non-Final OA AC Immune SA
18250816 SYNTHETIC LETHALITY-MEDIATED PRECISION ONCOLOGY VIA TUMOR TRANSCRIPTOME Non-Final OA The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services
18637241 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR COUNTING NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES Non-Final OA Enumera Molecular, Inc.
17702880 ASSEMBLY OF PROTEIN COMPLEXES ON A CHIP Non-Final OA Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd.
17636288 METHOD OF QUALIFYING A SUBGROUP OF TARGET BINDING BIOMOLECULES FROM A LARGER GROUP OF TARGET BINDING BIOMOLECULES FOR ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Cytiva Sweden AB
17554956 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAD-BASED ASSAYS IN FERROFLUIDS Non-Final OA Ancera, Inc.
17370819 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF SEPSIS USING GAMMA PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS Non-Final OA HELIXBIND, INC.
18339429 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING COMPOUNDS FOR INDUCING PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION Final Rejection Oncopia Therapeutics, Inc. d/b/a/ SK Life Science Labs
18025107 ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS Non-Final OA CRYSTALSFIRST GMBH
18025103 ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS Non-Final OA CRYSTALSFIRST GMBH
18025100 ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS Non-Final OA CRYSTALSFIRST GMBH
17297944 METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE RESPONSE TO CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY IN CANCER PATIENTS Non-Final OA Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
18060218 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A PLURALITY OF ANTIBODY SEQUENCES Non-Final OA Innoplexus AG
17635778 BIOLOGICAL TISSUE STAINING REAGENT, BIOLOGICAL TISSUE STAINING KIT AND BIOLOGICAL TISSUE STAINING METHOD Non-Final OA CUBICStars, Inc.
17537215 MESO-SCALE ENGINEERED PEPTIDES AND METHODS OF SELECTING Non-Final OA iBio, Inc.

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