Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1631 1672 1686

This examiner grants 56% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

56.1%
Allow Rate
-3.9% vs TC avg
944
Total Applications
+33.3%
Interview Lift
1491
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 899 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

25.1%
§101 Eligibility
7.4%
§102 Novelty
36.9%
§103 Obviousness
18.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17280380 HLA SINGLE ALLELE LINES Non-Final OA The Broad Institute, Inc.
17786061 NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING DIAGNOSTIC PLATFORM AND RELATED METHODS Non-Final OA Ohio State Innovation Foundation
19216541 MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED ENHANCEMENT OF MOLECULAR PROPERTIES Final Rejection Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
19269027 ANSWER GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM Non-Final OA LG MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
17918581 SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MATERIAL TO BE PROPOSED TO USER Non-Final OA Hitachi, Ltd.
17467615 FASTER FITTED Q-ITERATION USING ZERO-SUPPRESSED DECISION DIAGRAM Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17641909 METHOD FOR SIMULATING OLIGOMER OR POLYMER GROWTH Final Rejection COVESTRO LLC
17616145 SELECTING NEOANTIGENS FOR PERSONALIZED CANCER VACCINE Final Rejection AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
17691761 ANALYSIS METHOD AND ANALYZER Final Rejection SYSMEX CORPORATION
17465424 Systems and Methods for Detection of Aneuploidy Non-Final OA Natera, Inc.
18505748 UTILIZING COMPOUND-PROTEIN MACHINE LEARNING REPRESENTATIONS TO GENERATE BIOACTIVITY PREDICTIONS Final Rejection Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
17993597 SAMPLE CONTAMINATION DETECTION OF CONTAMINATED FRAGMENTS FOR CANCER CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA GRAIL, LLC
17098391 SEIZURE DETECTION METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS USING A WAVELET TRANSFORM MAXIMUM MODULUS ALGORITHM Final Rejection FLINT HILLS SCIENTIFIC, LLC
17539744 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCREENING PHENOTYPIC TARGETS ASSOCIATED WITH A DISEASE USING IN-SILICO TECHNIQUES Final Rejection Innoplexus AG
17284357 METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF RESPONSE TO DISEASE THERAPY Non-Final OA UNIVERSITÄT ROSTOCK
18071786 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA Non-Final OA Seven Bridges Genomics Inc.
17447066 Reconstruction Algorithms for DNA-Storage Systems Non-Final OA TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.
17997448 PATIENT STRATIFICATION USING LATENT VARIABLES Non-Final OA BenevolentAI Technology Limited
17905682 INTRAOPERATIVE LOCALISATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA 360 Knee Systems Pty Ltd
17400778 METHOD FOR PREDICTING CANCER RISK VALUE BASED ON MULTI-OMICS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL PLASMA FEATURES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA SeekIn, Inc.
17326060 ASSAY SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINATION OF FETAL COPY NUMBER VARIATION Non-Final OA Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.
17872524 Electronic Methods And Systems For Microorganism Characterization Non-Final OA FRY LABORATORIES, LLC
17747365 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING PREDICTING THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF AN AMINO ACID SEQUENCE Non-Final OA Armand Prieditis
17732740 Device and Method for Predicting Product Properties of Naphtha Splitting Unit Non-Final OA SK Incheon Petrochem Co., Ltd.
17694519 RELATIONSHIP ANALYSIS UTILIZING BIOFEEDBACK INFORMATION Final Rejection ONTOLEAD, INC.
17577527 PREDICTION DEVICE, TRAINED MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, PREDICTION METHOD, AND TRAINED MODEL GENERATION METHOD Final Rejection Ahead Biocomputing, Co. Ltd.
17620669 GENE CIRCUIT SIMULATING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREFOR Final Rejection U Seak CHI
17502309 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING DRUG RECOMMENDATION Final Rejection Cancerfree biotech Ltd.

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