Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1629 1671 1685

This examiner grants 37% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

37.1%
Allow Rate
-22.9% vs TC avg
107
Total Applications
+23.3%
Interview Lift
1859
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 62 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

35.7%
§101 Eligibility
6.7%
§102 Novelty
25.7%
§103 Obviousness
25.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17839353 SPECIALIST SIGNAL PROFILERS FOR BASE CALLING Non-Final OA Illumina, Inc.
17563934 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR RECALIBRATING NUCLEOTIDE BASE CALLS CORRESPONDING TO TARGET VARIANTS Final Rejection Illumina, Inc.
17219338 DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION FOR A SAMPLE BASED ON METHYL BINDING DOMAIN CALIBRATION DATA Non-Final OA GUARDANT HEALTH, INC.
16817489 Systems and Methods for Determining Molecular Structures with Molecular-Orbital-Based Features Final Rejection California Institute of Technology
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 Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
17095562 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING, CLASSIFYING, AND/OR RANKING GENETIC SEQUENCES Final Rejection Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
16643094 Physical Property Prediction Method and Physical Property Prediction System Non-Final OA Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
17548084 Systems and Methods for Homogenization of Disparate Datasets Non-Final OA Tempus AI, Inc.
17616740 DETERMINING CAUSES OF DISEASES SUCH AS CANCER, USING MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS OF GENETIC DATA Final Rejection The Johns Hopkins University
18344471 SENSOR CALIBRATION USING SIMULATED SENSOR MEASUREMENTS Non-Final OA MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
17880635 VIRTUALLY TESTING FORCE PLACED ON A TOOTH Non-Final OA Align Technology, Inc.
17252205 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CALLING PLOIDY STATES USING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Natera, Inc.
17784631 CONTROL OF A THERAPEUTIC DELIVERY SYSTEM Non-Final OA THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
17237591 Machine Learning Derived Multimorbidity Risk Scores for Generalizable Patient Populations Non-Final OA Elevance Health, Inc.
17909152 PREDICTIVE TEST FOR WHETHER A PATIENT WILL BENEFIT FROM PHARMACOGENOMICS TESTING Non-Final OA SANFORD HEALTH
16538475 DESIGN OF MOLECULES Final Rejection Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
17020432 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING PARKINSONS DISEASE FROM ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY DATA Final Rejection University of Iowa Research Foundation
16976808 GENE MUTATION ASSESSMENT DEVICE, ASSESSMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection OSAKA UNIVERSITY
17221003 GENE TO TRANSCRIPTOME ASSOCIATION PLATFORM FOR DRUG TARGET IDENTIFICATION Final Rejection University of South Carolina
16750475 PREDICTIVE DATA ANALYSIS USING CUSTOM-PARAMETERIZED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION Final Rejection Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
17719321 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENGINEERING BIOMOLECULES Non-Final OA Codexis, Inc.
17144021 BITERMINAL DNA FRAGMENT TYPES IN CELL-FREE SAMPLES AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA GRAIL, Inc.
17047676 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACID Non-Final OA GRAIL, Inc.
16936901 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TUMOR FRACTION Non-Final OA GRAIL, Inc.
17770191 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING OPTIMIZED CONCENTRATION TRAJECTORIES FOR DRUG ADMINISTRATION Non-Final OA BERLINER INSTITUT FUER GESUNDHEITSFORSCHUNG ZENTRUM DIGITALE GESUNDHEIT
17501498 METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR PHYTOMEDICINE ANALYTICS FOR RESEARCH OPTIMIZATION AT SCALE Final Rejection GBS Global BioPharma, Inc.
17006360 PATHOGENICITY SCORING SYSTEM FOR HUMAN CLINICAL GENETICS Non-Final OA Athena Diagnostics, Inc.
16705783 DETERMINATION OF CANCER TYPE IN A SUBJECT BY PROBABILISTIC MODELING OF CIRCULATING NUCLEIC ACID FRAGMENT ENDPOINTS Non-Final OA BELLWETHER BIO, INC.
15418363 SELF-IMPROVING METHOD OF USING ONLINE COMMUNITIES TO PREDICT HEALTH-RELATED OUTCOMES Final Rejection PatientsLikeMe LLC

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