Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1613 1635 1636 1642

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

58.8%
Allow Rate
-1.2% vs TC avg
233
Total Applications
+62.6%
Interview Lift
1421
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 177 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.3%
§101 Eligibility
14.3%
§102 Novelty
32.4%
§103 Obviousness
29.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18957270 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT IN VIVO DELIVERY Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
18957216 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
18255160 Methods for Making and Using Genomically Recoded Cells Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
18046076 USE OF PROTEIN ASSEMBLIES TO RECORD CELLULAR EVENTS 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
18246408 CORONAVIRUS REPLICONS FOR ANTIVIRAL SCREENING AND TESTING Non-Final OA MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLC
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 Non-Final OA THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
18752501 MULTI-VECTOR RECOMBINASE MEDIATED CASSETTE EXCHANGE Final Rejection Genentech, Inc.
19305217 GUIDED MICROBIAL REMODELING, A PLATFORM FOR THE RATIONAL IMPROVEMENT OF MICROBIAL SPECIES FOR AGRICULTURE Final Rejection Pivot Bio, Inc.
17500774 NUCLEIC ACID CONSTRUCTS FOR SIMULTANEOUS GENE ACTIVATION Non-Final OA Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
18187937 GUIDE-RNA EXPRESSION SYSTEM FOR A HOST CELL Final Rejection MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
17756078 LARGE-SCALE COMBINED CAR TRANSDUCTION AND CRISPR GENE EDITING OF T CELLS Non-Final OA 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
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
17928105 Systems and Methods for Stable and Heritable Alteration by Precision Editing (SHAPE) Non-Final OA The General Hospital Corporation
17921027 IMPROVED CAS 12A/NLS MEDIATED THERAPEUTIC GENE EDITING PLATFORMS Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
18014692 USE OF SATIVENE, AND RECOMBINANT BIOCONTROL FUNGUS AND MUSCARDINE CADAVER AND USE THEREOF Non-Final OA ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
17815711 GENOME ENGINEERING THE HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN LOCUS TO EXPRESS RECOMBINANT BINDING DOMAIN MOLECULES Non-Final OA University of Southern California
17520246 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR RNA-ENCODED DNA-REPLACEMENT OF ALLELES Non-Final OA Pairwise Plants Services, Inc.
18267144 METHOD FOR PROGRAMMABLE CONTROL OF RNA TRANSCRIPT LEVELS WITH AUTOREGULATED CRISPR-CAS13D Non-Final OA University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
18045873 AAV VARIANTS WITH HOST ANTIBODY ESCAPE CAPABILITIES AND ALTERED TISSUE TARGETING PROPERTIES Non-Final OA University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
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
18027530 CRISPR-MEDIATED DIRECTED CODON RE-WRITE Non-Final OA LIMAGRAIN EUROPE
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.
18282181 POLYNUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONS, RELATED FORMULATIONS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA ReCode Therapeutics, Inc.

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