Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA

Tech Center 1700 • Art Units: 1678 1772 1796 1797 1798 1799

This examiner grants 70% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

69.7%
Allow Rate
+4.7% vs TC avg
879
Total Applications
+36.4%
Interview Lift
1250
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 837 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.2%
§101 Eligibility
7.9%
§102 Novelty
71.7%
§103 Obviousness
18.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17906087 WELL PLATE AND PETRI DISH FLUID EXCHANGE PLUG Non-Final OA THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
17986559 APPLYING A LAYERED APPROACH TO DETERMINING MOLECULAR RETROSYNTHETIC ROUTE USING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18494218 ELECTRONIC SMOKING ARTICLE Non-Final OA Altria Client Services LLC
18175885 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FLOW CELL ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY Non-Final OA 10x Genomics, Inc.
17912873 MOLDED MICROFLUIDIC SUBSTRATE HAVING MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL Non-Final OA Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
18009002 CASSETTE STAND, REACTION UNIT, AND GENETIC TESTING APPARATUS Final Rejection Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
18302055 GAS DETECTION DEVICE AND GAS DETECTION PROCESS WITH A SENSOR AND WITH AN OXIDIZER Non-Final OA Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
17796853 FLOW CELLS AND METHODS FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE Non-Final OA ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED
18470026 SOLID-STATE INTEGRATED REAL-TIME OPTICAL MONITORING OF BIOCHEMICAL ASSAYS Non-Final OA Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
17916203 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING A CONDITION CHARACTERIZED BY TDP-43 PROTEINOPATHY Non-Final OA Oxford University Innovation Limited
18244816 VAPORIZATION DEVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA JUUL Labs, Inc.
18333347 INTERFERENCE MONITORING FOR PROVIDING A VERIFIED ANALYTE MEASUREMENT Non-Final OA Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
18212715 Mass Spectrometric Determination of Cell Toxicity Non-Final OA Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG
18275158 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING BIOLOGICAL CELL CULTURES Non-Final OA AIXINNO Ltd.
18349381 DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT ASSEMBLY Non-Final OA Radiolife Co.
18246283 Crucible Coupler for a Carbon Aerosol Generator Non-Final OA Cyclomedica Australia Pty Limited
18245358 MICRO-FLUIDIC CARTRIDGE Non-Final OA ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
17559013 METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING CHROMATOGRAPHY DATA Non-Final OA WATERS TECHNOLOGIES IRELAND LIMITED
18014976 ROBOTIC SAMPLE HANDLING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Patrick KINNEY
17901190 CELLULAR MEASUREMENT CALIBRATION AND CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA Travera, Inc.
17063637 Droplet-Generating Microfluidic Chips and Related Methods Non-Final OA Pattern Bioscience, Inc.
16761314 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REVERSIBLY IMMOBILISING BIOMOLECULES Final Rejection HOMBRECHTIKON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AG
17764686 PLATELET RELEASE SYSTEM AND PLATELET RELEASE METHOD Non-Final OA UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG
17594808 SELF-REFERENCED SENSOR Non-Final OA UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA (UPC)
17416087 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMULATING A REQUIRED COMPOSITION FROM AT LEAST ONE INGREDIENT OF VARIABLE COMPOSITION Final Rejection SIGMA ALIMENTOS, S.A. DE C.V.

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