Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: REGA, KYLE THOMAS

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1636

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.5%
Allow Rate
+2.5% vs TC avg
159
Total Applications
+45.5%
Interview Lift
1282
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 96 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.5%
§101 Eligibility
18.7%
§102 Novelty
37.7%
§103 Obviousness
25.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17613216 GENE EDITING IN DIVERSE BACTERIA Non-Final OA President and Fellows of Harvard College
17593020 HIGHLY MULTIPLEXED BASE EDITING Final Rejection President and Fellows of Harvard College
17324383 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF KIDNEY DISEASE OR DISORDER BY GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
16005445 CONDITIONAL GUIDE RNAs Final Rejection California Institute of Technology
19317342 SINGLE BASE SUBSTITUTION PROTEIN, AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAME Non-Final OA TOOLGEN INCORPORATED
18287677 PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Non-Final OA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
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
17286772 ENGINEERED LONG INTERSPERSED ELEMENT (LINE) TRANSPOSONS AND METHODS OF USE Final Rejection Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
17610360 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR HOMOLOGY DIRECTED REPAIR Final Rejection Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
17290317 Split CPF1 Protein Final Rejection The University of Tokyo
18495741 SUGAR-CONJUGATED LIPID NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF USE THEREFOR Non-Final OA University of Virginia Patent Foundation
17552431 ENGINEERED SSDNASE-FREE CRISPR ENDONUCLEASES Non-Final OA MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
18043792 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING BACTERIAL TRANSCRIPTION Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
17636750 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING REGULATORS OF CELL TYPE FATE SPECIFICATION Final Rejection Duke University
18969910 Programmable Cleavage of RNA Non-Final OA New England Biolabs, Inc.
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
18053696 METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR FOR IMPROVED FORMATE UTILIZATION Non-Final OA Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
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.
18544882 METHODS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF VARIANT RECOGNITION SITES FOR RARE-CUTTING ENGINEERED DOUBLE-STRAND-BREAK-INDUCING AGENTS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF Non-Final OA PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
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.
17272005 SCALABLE TAGGING OF ENDOGENOUS GENES BY HOMOLOGY-INDEPENDENT INTRON TARGETING Non-Final OA THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
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.
17518209 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODULATING SPLICING AND TRANSLATION Non-Final OA Stoke Therapeutics, Inc.
18455209 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SYNTHETIC BIOMARKERS Non-Final OA EARLI Inc.
18278037 Treatment of nerve damage using 5'UTR of Gpr151 gene or variant thereof Non-Final OA Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology

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