Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1600 1613 1635 1636 1638 1642

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

58.8%
Allow Rate
-1.2% vs TC avg
240
Total Applications
+63.7%
Interview Lift
1395
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 182 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.6%
§101 Eligibility
4.0%
§102 Novelty
48.0%
§103 Obviousness
9.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18957216 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT IN VIVO DELIVERY Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
18957270 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT IN VIVO DELIVERY Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
18334074 TYPE VI CRISPR ORTHOLOGS AND SYSTEMS Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
17779953 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING CAS9-INDEPENDENT OFF-TARGET EDITING OF NUCLEIC ACIDS Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
17783938 USE OF BIOMARKERS IN IDENTIFYING PATIENTS THAT WILL BE RESPONSIVE TO TREATMENT WITH A PRMT5 INHIBITOR Final Rejection Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
18311796 PATHWAY INTEGRATION AND EXPRESSION IN HOST CELLS Final Rejection THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
19305217 GUIDED MICROBIAL REMODELING, A PLATFORM FOR THE RATIONAL IMPROVEMENT OF MICROBIAL SPECIES FOR AGRICULTURE Final Rejection Pivot Bio, Inc.
18752501 MULTI-VECTOR RECOMBINASE MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE Final Rejection Genentech, Inc.
18187937 GUIDE-RNA EXPRESSION SYSTEM FOR A HOST CELL Final Rejection MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
18265226 COMPOSITIONS TARGETING WDR37 AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
16467890 ORTHOGONAL TRANSCRIPTIONAL SWITCHES DERIVED FROM TET REPRESSOR HOMOLOGS FOR SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE Non-Final OA The Johns Hopkins University
16174759 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN AND NANODISC COMPRISING AN OLFACTORY RECEPTOR PROTEIN MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME Final Rejection SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
18257504 CHEMICALLY MODIFIED CRISPR-CAS13 GUIDE RNAS Non-Final OA New York University
17756078 LARGE-SCALE COMBINED CAR TRANSDUCTION AND CRISPR GENE EDITING OF T CELLS Non-Final OA BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
18267144 METHOD FOR PROGRAMMABLE CONTROL OF RNA TRANSCRIPT LEVELS WITH AUTOREGULATED CRISPR-CAS13D Non-Final OA University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
17921027 IMPROVED CAS 12A/NLS MEDIATED THERAPEUTIC GENE EDITING PLATFORMS Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
17815711 GENOME ENGINEERING THE HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN LOCUS TO EXPRESS RECOMBINANT BINDING DOMAIN MOLECULES 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
17601537 Methods for integrating a donor DNA sequence into the genome of bacillus using linear recombinant DNA constructs and compositions thereof Non-Final OA DANISCO US INC
17995539 REAWAKENING OF DORMANT TUMOR CELLS BY MODIFIED LIPIDS DERIVED FROM STRESS ACTIVATED NEUTROPHILS Non-Final OA The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
18262438 COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING DUX4 EXPRESSION Non-Final OA Ionis 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
17926369 Method for Preparing Combinatorial Library of Multi-Modular Biosynthetic Enzyme Gene Non-Final OA Spiber Inc.
17433977 DIFFERENTIAL KNOCKOUT OF A HETEROZYGOUS ALLELE OF STAT1 Final Rejection EMENDOBIO INC.
18282181 POLYNUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONS, RELATED FORMULATIONS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA ReCode Therapeutics, Inc.
18251183 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING AN RNA GUIDE TARGETING BCL11A AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA Arbor Biotechnologies, Inc.
18038307 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SUPPRESSING MSUT2 Non-Final OA THE UNITED STATES GOVERMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
18018151 COMPOSITIONS OF DNA MOLECULES, METHODS OF MAKING THEREFOR, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA Anjarium Biosciences AG
18007568 NUCLEIC ACID CONSTRUCTS FOR PROTEIN MANUFACTURE Non-Final OA CATALENT PHARMA SOLUTIONS, LLC
17998442 CLINICALLY APPLICABLE CHARACTERIZATION OF GENETIC VARIANTS BY GENOME EDITING Non-Final OA ICO (INSTITUT DE CANCÉROLOGIE DE L'OUEST)

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