Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1686

This examiner grants 25% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

25.0%
Allow Rate
-35.0% vs TC avg
58
Total Applications
+85.7%
Interview Lift
388
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 8 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

32.8%
§101 Eligibility
1.4%
§102 Novelty
32.6%
§103 Obviousness
22.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17821410 AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING FAILURE SOURCES IN NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING FROM BASE-CALL-ERROR PATTERNS Non-Final OA Illumina, Inc.
17830316 SELF-LEARNED BASE CALLER, TRAINED USING ORGANISM SEQUENCES Non-Final OA ILLUMINA, INC.
17609534 BRAIN ORGANOID MACHINE INTERFACE Final Rejection The Regents of the University of California
17548977 ACID CORROSION INHIBITOR VIRTUAL LABORATORY Final Rejection Saudi Arabian Oil Company
17608441 Reagents and Methods for Alzheimer's Disease and CoMorbidities Thereof Final Rejection Ohio State Innovation Foundation
17074343 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNTARGETED METABOLOMIC SCREENING Non-Final OA Northwestern University
17698769 UTILIZATION OF SPARCE CODEBOOK IN MULTIPLEXED FLUORESCENT IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION IMAGING Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
17398996 APPLICATION OF DEEP LEARNING FOR INFERRING PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION WITH LIMITED OBSERVATIONS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17301376 EYE HEALTH DATA ANALYSIS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17539385 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING BIOLOGICAL TISSUE DEGRADATION Final Rejection Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
17408769 ROBUST FORECASTING SYSTEM ON IRREGULAR TIME SERIES IN DIALYSIS MEDICAL RECORDS Final Rejection NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
17779624 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A CNV PROFILE FOR A TUMOR USING SPARSE WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
17609622 ANALYTICAL DEVICE AND ANALYTICAL METHOD Final Rejection SHIMADZU CORPORATION
18008410 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTINGUISHING SOMATIC GENOMIC SEQUENCES FROM GERMLINE GENOMIC SEQUENCES Non-Final OA Foundation Medicine, Inc.
17619289 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING MISSED BOLUS DOSES Final Rejection Eli Lilly and Company
17710488 DETECTION METHOD FOR DETECTING OCCURRENCE OF NONSPECIFIC REACTION, ANALYSIS METHOD, ANALYZER, AND DETECTION PROGRAM FOR DETECTING OCCURRENCE OF NONSPECIFIC REACTION Final Rejection SYSMEX CORPORATION
17691958 MODULAR SYNTHON-BASED SCREENING APPROACH FOR USE IN DRUG DISCOVERY FOR DISEASES Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
17439450 PROCESS CONTROL IN CELL BASED ASSAYS Final Rejection Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
17633735 Systems, Methods, And Compositions For A Facile Accelerated Specific Therapeutic (Fast) Pipeline Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
17350666 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA ANALYSIS IN QUANTITATIVE PCR MEASUREMENTS Final Rejection Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce
17488164 CONSTRUCTION METHOD OF FINE-GRAINED INFECTIOUS DISEASE SIMULATION MODEL Final Rejection BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
17638904 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING AND MONITORING TREATMENT RESPONSE FROM CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS Non-Final OA Grail, LLC
17050372 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PATHOGEN NUCLEIC ACID LOAD TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SUBJECT HAS A CANCER CONDITION Non-Final OA GRAIL, LLC
17763165 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNERGISTIC PESTICIDE SCREENING Non-Final OA Terramera, Inc.
17616421 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANTIGEN-BINDING MOLECULE OR PROTEIN Non-Final OA CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17519813 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRE-HARVEST DETECTION OF LATENT INFECTION IN PLANTS Final Rejection Apeel Technology, Inc.
17782058 PRIORITISING BIOLOGICAL TARGETS Non-Final OA BenevolentAI Technology Limited
17722562 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELLING BLOOD VESSELS AND BLOOD FLOW UNDER HIGH-INTENSITY PHYSICAL EXERCISE CONDITIONS Non-Final OA Kardiolytics Inc.
17792535 SCREENING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AND PROCESSING GENOMIC INFORMATION FOR GENERATING GENE VARIANT INTERPRETATIONS Non-Final OA CONGENICA LTD.
17736389 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS ON LIVING CELLS USING BIOSENSOR TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Biosensing Instrument Inc.

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