Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: REGA, KYLE THOMAS

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1636

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.4%
Allow Rate
+2.4% vs TC avg
164
Total Applications
+43.9%
Interview Lift
1245
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 101 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.9%
§101 Eligibility
9.1%
§102 Novelty
60.7%
§103 Obviousness
6.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17613216 GENE EDITING IN DIVERSE BACTERIA Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
16984885 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE VARIANT Final Rejection President and Fellows of Harvard College
16616655 ALTERED GUIDE RNAS FOR MODULATING CAS9 ACTIVITY AND METHODS OF USE Non-Final OA North Carolina State University
18490880 TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAMMING IN A BACTEROIDES CONSORTIUM Non-Final OA Georgia Tech Research Corporation
18256768 HYDROGEN PEROXIDE EVOLVED HOST CELL Non-Final OA MedImmune Limited
17552431 ENGINEERED SSDNASE-FREE CRISPR ENDONUCLEASES Non-Final OA MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
18969910 Programmable Cleavage of RNA Non-Final OA New England Biolabs, Inc.
17636750 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING REGULATORS OF CELL TYPE FATE SPECIFICATION Final Rejection Duke University
18278255 DNA APTAMERS AND COMPOSITIONS TARGETING ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME Non-Final OA Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
17162053 COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR BASE DIVERSIFICATION Non-Final OA Pairwise Plants Services, Inc.
17084721 TYPE V CRISPR-CAS BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA Pairwise Plants Services, Inc.
18495741 SUGAR-CONJUGATED LIPID NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF USE THEREFOR Non-Final OA University of Virginia Patent Foundation
18753324 NOVEL TYPE OF CRISPR/CAS SYSTEM Non-Final OA SNIPR BIOME APS
18734772 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR RNA SYNTHESIS Non-Final OA LineaRx, Inc.
18415032 Compositions and Methods for Treatment of Diseases Associated with Trinucleotide Repeats in Transcription Factor Four Final Rejection Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
17430669 ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME TO MODIFY A NUCLEOBASE IN A TARGET SEQUENCE Non-Final OA BEAM THERAPEUTICS INC.
17430289 SPLICE ACCEPTOR SITE DISRUPTION OF A DISEASE-ASSOCIATED GENE USING ADENOSINE DEAMINASE BASE EDITORS, INCLUDING FOR THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASE Final Rejection BEAM THERAPEUTICS INC.
18455209 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SYNTHETIC BIOMARKERS Non-Final OA EARLI Inc.
18021450 CONSTITUTIVELY ACTIVE TCF1 TO PROMOTE MEMORY-ASSOCIATED TRAITS IN CAR T CELLS Non-Final OA Seattle Children's Hospital (dba Seattle Children's Research Institute)
18011311 METHOD FOR PRODUCING GENETICALLY MODIFIED CELLS Final Rejection Horizon Discovery Limited
18265603 NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULE FOR INDUCTION OF ASYMMETRIC RNAI FOR INHIBITING EXPRESSION OF ROR-BETA Non-Final OA Olix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
17272005 SCALABLE TAGGING OF ENDOGENOUS GENES BY HOMOLOGY-INDEPENDENT INTRON TARGETING Non-Final OA THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
16963809 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REGULATING A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS Non-Final OA The University of Memphis Research Foundation
18027723 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED NUCLEIC ACID TARGETING SPECIFICITY Non-Final OA Acrigen Biosciences, Inc.
18149913 CONSTRUCTS, COMPOSITIONS, CELLS AND METHODS FOR INCREASED RECOMBINANT PROTEIN EXPRESSION BY TARGETED INTEGRATION AND AMPLIFICATION Non-Final OA INPAMAC BIOTECH CANADA INC.
18085121 APPLICATION OF CAS PROTEIN, METHOD FOR DETECTING TARGET NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULE AND KIT Non-Final OA Shanghai Tolo Biotechnology Company Limited
18053696 METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR FOR IMPROVED FORMATE UTILIZATION Non-Final OA Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC
17922058 METHODS FOR REDUCING RNA IMMUNOGENICITY AND RNA MOLECULES WITH DECREASED IMMUNOGENICITY Non-Final OA RiboPro B.V.
17518209 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULATING SPLICING AND TRANSLATION Non-Final OA Stoke Therapeutics, Inc.
17267947 COMPOSITIONS FOR OVARIAN CANCER ASSESSMENT Final Rejection Aspira Women's Health Inc.

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