Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: MONTANARI, DAVID A

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1632

This examiner grants 65% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

65.1%
Allow Rate
+5.1% vs TC avg
796
Total Applications
+49.1%
Interview Lift
1401
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 754 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.7%
§101 Eligibility
15.9%
§102 Novelty
33.1%
§103 Obviousness
31.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18382048 SERUM-FREE IN VITRO DIRECTED DIFFERENTIATION PROTOCOL FOR GENERATING STEM CELL-DERIVED BETA CELLS AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
16331772 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR GENE INSERTION INTO REPEATED CHROMOSOME REGIONS FOR MULTI-LOCUS ASSORTMENT AND DAISYFIELD DRIVES Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
18215490 IN VITRO METHODS OF DIFFERENTIATING STEM CELLS INTO NEURONS AND NEURONS GENERATED USING THE SAME Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
17748315 ENGINEERED MICROBIAL POPULATION Non-Final OA Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
18249661 METHODS FOR GENERATING FORMATIVE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS COMPETENT FOR DIRECT PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL INDUCTION Non-Final OA The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
17638753 ORGANOID MESODERM LINEAGE DIVERSIFICATION Final Rejection RIKEN
17373485 NOVEL AAV8 MUTANT CAPSIDS AND COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING SAME Non-Final OA The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
17776563 OPTIDICER CONSTRUCT FOR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION Non-Final OA University of Utah Research Foundation
18507469 METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER USING T CELLS WHICH EXPRESS A CHIMERIC NK RECEPTOR Non-Final OA THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
18184517 MEDIA AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE SURVIVAL AND PROLIFERATION OF STEM CELLS Non-Final OA STEMCELL TECHNOLOGIES CANADA INC.
16067099 FLY AVATARS FOR CANCER AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
17607995 MINIMAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR DECELLULARIZATION OF TISSUES Non-Final OA Wake Forest University Health Sciences
16610471 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION Non-Final OA Koji TANABE
17836165 OPTIMIZED CRISPR/CAS9 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENE EDITING IN STEM CELLS Final Rejection Editas Medicine, Inc.
18025990 GENETICALLY MODIFIED NON-HUMAN ANIMAL WITH HUMAN OR CHIMERIC GLP1R Non-Final OA Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
18025302 GENETICALLY MODIFIED NON-HUMAN ANIMAL WITH HUMAN OR CHIMERIC CCR8 Non-Final OA BIOCYTOGEN PHARMACEUTICALS (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
18525721 COMPOUNDS FOR IMPROVED VIRAL TRANSDUCTION Non-Final OA Genetix Biotherapeutics Inc.
18491049 DUAL STRAND NUCLEIC ACID-GUIDED NICKASE EDITING Non-Final OA Inscripta, Inc.
16611998 LIVER ORGANOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME Final Rejection Japan Science and Technology Agency
18236218 GENETICALLY MODIFIED NON-HUMAN ANIMALS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA Institute for Research In Biomedicine (IRB)
18265421 TREATMENT OF DANON DISEASE Non-Final OA Spacecraft Seven, LLC
18036588 Media and methods for establishing and maintaining early embryo-like cells Non-Final OA BGI SHENZHEN GROUP HOLDINGS CO., LIMITED
18036578 Media and methods for establishing and maintaining early embryo-like cells Non-Final OA BGI SHENZHEN GROUP HOLDINGS CO., LIMITED
17058830 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OSTEOPETROSIS Final Rejection Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
18102467 Method for Producing Tissue and Organ Final Rejection Public University Corporation Yokohama City University
17788317 LIVER-SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND APPLICATION THEREOF Non-Final OA JINFAN BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY (WUHAN) CO., LTD.

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