Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: NGUYEN, QUANG

Tech Center 1700 • Art Units: 1631 1633 1799

This examiner grants 38% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

38.1%
Allow Rate
-26.9% vs TC avg
799
Total Applications
+52.7%
Interview Lift
1426
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 734 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.9%
§101 Eligibility
15.8%
§102 Novelty
37.9%
§103 Obviousness
27.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17999762 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EPIGENOME EDITING Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
17551030 Adeno-Associated Virus Virions with Variant Capsid and Methods of Use Thereof Final Rejection The Regents of the University of California
17272194 GENE THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF GALACTOSEMIA Non-Final OA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
18009239 METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING VIRAL VECTORS Non-Final OA Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc
18065360 MINI-PROMOTER Non-Final OA Vanderbilt University
16535042 INDUCIBLE DNA BINDING PROTEINS AND GENOME PERTURBATION TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF Non-Final OA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16761876 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CIRCULAR RNA MOLECULES Final Rejection The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
14596051 METHOD FOR INDUCING CELLS TO LESS MATURE STATE Non-Final OA Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation
19087070 POLY-DONOR CD4+ T CELLS EXPRESSING IL-10 AND USES THEREOF Final Rejection TR1X, INC.
18327651 CHIMERIC TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEINS AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA Kite Pharma, Inc.
18517080 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING USHER SYNDROME III Non-Final OA CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
18173485 METHODS FOR ENHANCING ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY OF EXHAUSTED T CELLS Non-Final OA FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER
18296623 METHOD FOR GENERATING T CELLS PROGENITORS Final Rejection Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
17178972 GENERATING GABAergic NEURONS IN BRAINS Non-Final OA The Penn State Research Foundation
17046807 ANTI-AGING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE Final Rejection YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD.
17763122 NOTCH RECEPTORS WITH ZINC FINGER-CONTAINING TRANSCRIPTIONAL EFFECTOR Non-Final OA Trustees of Boston University
18191790 AAV-BASED GENE THERAPY FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Final Rejection University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated.
16933773 NUCLEIC ACID PURIFICATION Final Rejection ZYMO RESEARCH CORPORATION
16645213 STEM CELL DERIVED FROM NEONATAL PIG AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME Final Rejection OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY, INC.
17592335 MRNA THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF OCULAR DISEASES Non-Final OA Translate Bio, Inc.
17897878 LIPID NANOPARTICLE FORMULATIONS FOR CRISPR/CAS COMPONENTS Final Rejection Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
18041371 CULTURED TISSUE AND BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF Non-Final OA Trustees of Tufts College
15282905 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING GENE EXPRESSION Final Rejection Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
18533474 REPLICATIVE MINICIRCLE VECTORS WITH IMPROVED EXPRESSION Non-Final OA ALDEVRON, L.L.C.
18512933 CANCER-KILLING CELLS Final Rejection LIFT BIOSCIENCES LTD
18486941 Methods of Treating Human X-Linked Retinoschisis Using Gene Therapy Non-Final OA TEAMEDON INTERNATIONAL, INC.
17773416 Recombinant CDKL5 Proteins, Gene Therapy and Production Methods Non-Final OA Amicus Therapeutics, Inc.
18467037 TRANS-SPLICING METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENERATION OF SINGLE SEX OFFSPRING Non-Final OA JFL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
18156184 Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus Final Rejection Queen Mary University of London
16605740 OPTIMIZED LENTIVIRAL VECTOR FOR XLA GENE THERAPY Non-Final OA Seattle Children's Hospital (dba Seattle Children's Research Institute)

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