Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1671 1685 1699

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

58.1%
Allow Rate
-1.9% vs TC avg
129
Total Applications
+37.7%
Interview Lift
1542
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 93 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

23.6%
§101 Eligibility
5.5%
§102 Novelty
55.1%
§103 Obviousness
4.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17805138 SIGNAL-TO-NOISE-RATIO METRIC FOR DETERMINING NUCLEOTIDE-BASE CALLS AND BASE-CALL QUALITY Non-Final OA Illumina, Inc.
17656173 MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR DETECTING A BUBBLE WITHIN A NUCLEOTIDE-SAMPLE SLIDE FOR SEQUENCING Final Rejection Illumina, Inc.
17687586 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED BASE CALLER WITH CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS Non-Final OA Illumina, Inc.
19245981 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTINGUISHING NUCLEIC ACIDS IN MIXED SAMPLES Final Rejection CareDx, Inc.
16952153 IDENTIFYING GENETIC SEQUENCE EXPRESSION PROFILES ACCORDING TO CLASSIFICATION FEATURE SETS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17354992 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASCERTAINING AN RNA SEQUENCE Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17123591 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR EVALUATING CANCER MODEL FIDELITY Non-Final OA THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
17554690 System for Identifying Structures of Molecular Compounds from Mass Spectrometry Data Final Rejection Carnegie Mellon University
17596888 SYNTHETIC BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC GENERATOR BASED ON REAL BIOLOGICAL DATA SIGNATURES Non-Final OA INSILICO MEDICINE IP LIMITED
17571840 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING BIOLOGICAL DATA USING AND APPLYING A VIRTUAL LANDSCAPE Non-Final OA Accencio LLC
18170396 EPITOPE MIMICS Non-Final OA IOGENETICS, LLC
17817421 SOMATIC VARIANT COOCCURRENCE WITH ABNORMALLY METHYLATED FRAGMENTS Non-Final OA GRAIL, Inc.
16719938 CANCER TISSUE SOURCE OF ORIGIN PREDICTION WITH MULTI-TIER ANALYSIS OF SMALL VARIANTS IN CELL-FREE DNA SAMPLES Final Rejection GRAIL, Inc.
17855736 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING ROBUST PREDICTION MODEL, PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND PROGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE Non-Final OA Kaohsiung Medical University
17770580 METHOD FOR SCREENING IVF EMBRYOS Non-Final OA GenEmbryomics Pty. Ltd.
17621856 BACTERIAL SUPPLYING SYSTEM Final Rejection Noster Inc.
17261341 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING AT LEAST ONE FITNESS VALUE OF A PROTEIN VIA AN EXTENDED NUMERICAL SEQUENCE, RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA PEACCEL
17050799 METHODS OF DIAGNOSING DISEASE USING MICROFLOW CYTOMETRY Non-Final OA Nanostics Inc.

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