Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: LIU, GUOZHEN

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1631 1672 1686

This examiner grants 50% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

49.5%
Allow Rate
-10.5% vs TC avg
134
Total Applications
+25.4%
Interview Lift
1717
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 95 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

37.1%
§101 Eligibility
7.3%
§102 Novelty
25.2%
§103 Obviousness
19.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18300343 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING DATA Non-Final OA ILLUMINA, INC.
16992569 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF HAPLOTYPES TO DETERMINE A BIOLOGICAL CONDITION Final Rejection 10X Genomics, Inc.
18655208 EFFICIENT CLUSTERING OF NOISY POLYNUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE READS Non-Final OA MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18930786 ESTIMATION OF CIRCULATING TUMOR FRACTION USING OFF-TARGET READS OF TARGETED-PANEL SEQUENCING Non-Final OA Tempus AI, Inc.
16341368 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPACT REPRESENTATION OF BIOINFORMATICS DATA Final Rejection KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
17449952 DATA SIFTING METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
17289882 Quantitative Algorithm for Endometriosis Non-Final OA YALE UNIVERSITY
18298690 Denoising ATAC-Seq Data With Deep Learning Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
17874203 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN IDENTIFYING MULTIPLE GENOME EDITS AND PREDICTING THE AGGREGATE EFFECTS OF THE IDENTIFIED GENOME EDITS Final Rejection MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
17092975 BACTERIAL CAPTURE SEQUENCING PLATFORM AND METHODS OF DESIGNING, CONSTRUCTING AND USING Final Rejection THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
18944625 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR REMOVING NOISE IN DATA Non-Final OA Inocras Korea Inc.
18524758 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE USING TUMOR INFORMATION Non-Final OA Inocras Korea Inc.
18441967 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DETECTION OF TANDEM DUPLICATION Non-Final OA Life Technologies Corporation
17891767 COMPUTATIONAL MODEL TRAINED TO PREDICT INTERACTING PAIRS BASED ON WEAKLY-CORRELATED FEATURES Non-Final OA Cornell University
16340738 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED DETERMINATION OF NODE INFLUENCE IN A NETWORK Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED
18628166 Anomalous Fragment Detection and Classification Non-Final OA GRAIL, LLC
17845930 METHODS OF IDENTIFYING SOMATIC MUTATIONAL SIGNATURES FOR EARLY CANCER DETECTION Final Rejection GRAIL, LLC
16460588 MACHINE LEARNING VARIANT SOURCE ASSIGNMENT Non-Final OA GRAIL, LLC
18619485 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOMATIC MUTATION DISCOVERY Non-Final OA Personal Genome Diagnotics Inc.
16402910 SIZE-TAGGED PREFERRED ENDS AND ORIENTATION-AWARE ANALYSIS FOR MEASURING PROPERTIES OF CELL-FREE MIXTURES Final Rejection GRAIL, Inc.
17608871 DOWNSCALING PARAMETERS TO DESIGN EXPERIMENTS AND PLATE MODELS FOR MICRO-ORGANISMS AT SMALL SCALE TO IMPROVE PREDICTION OF PERFORMANCE AT LARGER SCALE Non-Final OA Zymergen Inc.
17295644 PROGNOSTIC MARKERS IN LUNG CANCER, PROGNOSTIC TYPING MODEL OF LUNG CANCER, AND APPLICATION THEREOF Non-Final OA Lisen Imprinting Diagnostics Wuxi Co., Ltd.
16768768 METHOD FOR PREPARING PERSONALIZED CANCER VACCINE Non-Final OA SHANGHAI JENOMED BIOTECH CO., LTD.
16145263 DETERMINATION OF NOTCH PATHWAY ACTIVITY USING UNIQUE COMBINATION OF TARGET GENES Non-Final OA InnoSIGN B.V.
15865152 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CANCER STATUS Non-Final OA YOUHEALTH ONCOTECH, LIMITED

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