Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 1600 1611 1613 1632 1635 1636 1638 1642 1796 4100

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Analysis

Catherine Anne Konopka is an examiner in Art Unit 1600 of Tech Center 4100. She has 203 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 58.1%. This rate shows that a majority of the applications she examines result in an allowance. The 58.1% allowance rate is a figure for understanding the probability of success with this examiner.

The interview lift is 65.0%, which is higher than the 58.1% allowance rate. This suggests that interviews are a successful tactic for resolving issues and securing a grant. The median days to allowance is 1393, which is a period for applicants to consider. By analyzing the 203 resolved cases and the 65.0% interview lift, practitioners can see that direct engagement is a strategy for navigating the 1393-day median timeline to allowance in Art Unit 1600.

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

Performance Statistics

58.1%
Allow Rate
-1.9% vs TC avg
262
Total Applications
+65.0%
Interview Lift
1393
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 203 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.1%
§101 Eligibility
13.7%
§102 Novelty
32.8%
§103 Obviousness
30.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18267144 METHOD FOR PROGRAMMABLE CONTROL OF RNA TRANSCRIPT LEVELS WITH AUTOREGULATED CRISPR-CAS13D Final Rejection University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
18045873 AAV VARIANTS WITH HOST ANTIBODY ESCAPE CAPABILITIES AND ALTERED TISSUE TARGETING PROPERTIES Final Rejection University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
18553357 Specific Oligonucleotide-Programmed Readthrough of Nonsense Codons Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
18213505 MODIFIED GUIDE RNAS FOR CRISPR GENOME EDITING Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
17921027 IMPROVED CAS 12A/NLS MEDIATED THERAPEUTIC GENE EDITING PLATFORMS Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
18752501 MULTI-VECTOR RECOMBINASE MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE Non-Final OA Genentech, Inc.
18712524 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS Non-Final OA Ohio State Innovation Foundation
18571967 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED PROTEIN TRANSLATION FROM RECOMBINANT CIRCULAR RNAS Non-Final OA The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
18303527 PROGRAMMABLE GENE EDITING USING GUIDE RNA PAIR Non-Final OA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18048238 DISCOVERY AND ENGINEERING OF INTEGRASES FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY GENE INTEGRATION Non-Final OA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18535658 SYNTHETIC IMMUNOMODULATION WITH A CRISPR SUPER-REPRESSOR IN VIVO Final Rejection ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
18246408 CORONAVIRUS REPLICONS FOR ANTIVIRAL SCREENING AND TESTING Non-Final OA MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
17596186 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBATING MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS Final Rejection Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18798198 Treatment Of Hyperglycemia With Solute Carrier Family 39 Member 5 (SLC39A5) Inhibitors Non-Final OA Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
18385174 CD70-TARGETED MICELLES ENHANCE HIF2a siRNA DELIVERY AND INHIBIT ONCOGENIC FUNCTIONS IN PATIENT-DERIVED CLEAR CELL RENAL CARCINOMA CELLS Non-Final OA University of Southern California
18014692 USE OF SATIVENE, AND RECOMBINANT BIOCONTROL FUNGUS AND MUSCARDINE CADAVER AND USE THEREOF Non-Final OA ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
18257504 CHEMICALLY MODIFIED CRISPR-CAS13 GUIDE RNAS Final Rejection New York University
17756078 LARGE-SCALE COMBINED CAR TRANSDUCTION AND CRISPR GENE EDITING OF T CELLS Final Rejection BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
18265226 COMPOSITIONS TARGETING WDR37 AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
18506637 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE FOR MUTATED HOTAIR IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCERS Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
16174759 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN AND NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME Non-Final OA SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
18659831 PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATIONS FOR TREATMENT OF HBV Non-Final OA Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
18711241 NOCICEPTOR-SPECIFIC GENE REGULATORY ELEMENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN Non-Final OA The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
18412351 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO PROGRAM THERAPEUTIC CELLS USING TARGETED NUCLEIC ACID NANOCARRIER Non-Final OA FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER
18547102 FOLLICULIN iRNA COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF Non-Final OA ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
18283589 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING CANCER COMPRISING DUAL EXPRESSIONVECTOR FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPRESSING PROTEIN PRESENT IN CELL AND PROTEIN SECRETED OUT OF CELL Non-Final OA KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
18555012 RNA INHIBITOR FOR INHIBITING HEPATITIS B VIRUS GENE EXPRESSION AND APPLICATION THEREOF Non-Final OA KYLONOVA (XIAMEN) BIOPHARMA CO., LTD.
17985974 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE ADAR-MEDIATED EDITING OF TRANSMEMBRANE CHANNEL-LIKE PROTEIN 1 (TMC1) Final Rejection Korro Bio, Inc.
18251183 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING AN RNA GUIDE TARGETING BCL11A AND USES THEREOF Final Rejection Arbor Biotechnologies, Inc.

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