Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Jonathan Edward Hayes, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 1629 1671 1685 2188

This examiner grants 36% of resolved cases

Analysis

HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD works in tech center 2100 and art unit 1629. The record includes 80 resolved cases, with an allowance rate of 36.3%. The median time to allowance is 1,727 days. Interviews show a 23.5% lift, making interview engagement a notable feature of the available prosecution data.

The profile includes Grail LLC, The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc., and Sony Group Corporation among its represented companies. The listed firms are BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP, 24IP LAW GROUP USA, PLLC, and DUANE MORRIS LLP - Quest Diagnostics. Practitioners may wish to pair early interview preparation with a careful response strategy, because the interview figure is materially more prominent than the allowance figure.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

36.3%
Allow Rate
-18.7% vs TC avg
125
Total Applications
+23.5%
Interview Lift
1727
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 80 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

40.5%
§101 Eligibility
6.4%
§102 Novelty
23.9%
§103 Obviousness
24.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17876324 FEATURE AMOUNT SELECTION METHOD, FEATURE AMOUNT SELECTION PROGRAM, MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION METHOD, MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM, FEATURE AMOUNT SELECTION DEVICE, MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION DEVICE, AND FEATURE AMOUNT SET Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18570354 PARTICLE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SORTING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18197641 MIXTURE DECONVOLUTION METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING DNA PROFILES Non-Final OA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18028798 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING GENOMIC DATA IN A FILE STRUCTURE COMPRISING PROTECTION METADATA Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
17880635 VIRTUALLY TESTING FORCE PLACED ON A TOOTH Final Rejection Align Technology, Inc.
18179621 TRAINED MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR FORECASTING MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17548084 Systems and Methods for Homogenization of Disparate Datasets Final Rejection Tempus AI, Inc.
18811696 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND USING SIMULATED SENSOR MEASUREMENTS Non-Final OA MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
18126887 METHOD FOR MOLECULAR REPRESENTING Non-Final OA BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18098492 Graphical User Interface for Group-Wise Flow Cytometry Data Analysis and Methods for Using Same Non-Final OA Becton, Dickinson and Company
18025689 TRAINING PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION NEURAL NETWORKS USING REDUCED MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Jonathan Edward Hayes's allowance rate?

36.3% of resolved applications examined by Jonathan Edward Hayes were allowed (80 resolved cases), compared with 42.3% across Art Unit 1629 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Jonathan Edward Hayes?

This examiner's interview lift is +23.5 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Jonathan Edward Hayes take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Jonathan Edward Hayes took 1,727 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Jonathan Edward Hayes work in?

Jonathan Edward Hayes examines applications in Art Unit 1629 in Tech Center 2100 (Computing & Software).

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