Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: JOHANSEN, PETER N.

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1641 1642 1644 1645 1658 1671

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

59.3%
Allow Rate
-0.7% vs TC avg
284
Total Applications
+24.4%
Interview Lift
1215
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 221 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.0%
§101 Eligibility
13.7%
§102 Novelty
40.1%
§103 Obviousness
24.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18553523 CLASSIFICATION OF NEUROLOGICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC DISEASE MANIFESTATIONS USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
18271540 Personalized Longitudinal Analysis of Circulating Material to Monitor and Adapt Neoantigen Cancer Vaccines Final Rejection AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
18286903 Digital Protein Misfolding Assays Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
18512522 MODULATING BONE MORPHOGENIC PROTEIN (BMP) SIGNALING IN THE TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE Final Rejection The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
18550537 METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER WITH ANTI-ILT3 ANTIBODIES Non-Final OA Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
16863800 METHODS FOR TREATING OR PREVENTING ASTHMA BY ADMINISTERING AN IL-33 ANTAGONIST Final Rejection REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
17907039 CORONA NUCLEOCAPSID ANTIGEN FOR USE IN ANTIBODY-IMMUNOASSAYS Final Rejection Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
18146014 COMBINATION OF AN ANTI-PD-L1 ANTIBODY AND A DNA-PK INHIBITOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER Non-Final OA Pfizer Inc.
18223730 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING A DISEASE Final Rejection RAMOT AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD.
18285125 MAGEB2 BINDING CONSTRUCTS Non-Final OA Amgen Inc.
17641044 TREATMENT METHODS FOR EYE DISORDERS Final Rejection University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
18554176 METHODS FOR INHIBITING KRAS ONCOPROTEIN THROUGH ENHANCED GTPASE ACTIVITY Non-Final OA Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
18288420 Mesothelin-specific T cell Receptors and Methods of Using Same Non-Final OA FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER
18506518 ANTIGEN-BINDING PROTEINS TARGETING MELANOMA DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGENS AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
17622375 A PEPTIDE-BASED SCREENING METHOD TO IDENTIFY NEOANTIGENS FOR USE WITH TUMOR INFILTRATING LYMPHOCYTES Non-Final OA H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
17757383 SUPPRESSION OF INTERLEUKIN-17 PRODUCTION AND INHIBITION OF TH17 CELL GENERATION BY FIBROBLASTS AND PRODUCTS THEREOF Final Rejection FIGENE, LLC
18551356 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR NEOANTIGEN VACCINES Non-Final OA THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
17059516 HSP70 PROTEIN LEVELS IN PBMC SAMPLES AS BIOMARKER FOR DISEASE Non-Final OA Zevra Denmark A/S
18007978 Compositions and Methods for the Treatment of Synucleinopathies Final Rejection SOLA BIOSCIENCES LLC
16604484 GENE THERAPY Non-Final OA Fondazione Telethon

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