Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: ROGERS, ERIC JASON

Tech Center 3900 • Art Units: 1612 1631 1638 1657 1699 3991

This examiner grants 57% of resolved cases

Analysis

Eric Jason Rogers has resolved 108 cases in Art Unit 1612 within Tech Center 3900. His allowance rate pct is 57.4, which is near the middle of the spectrum for patent examiners. The median days to allowance is 1426, indicating that applicants should prepare for a multi-year prosecution process. These 108 resolved cases establish a clear baseline for examiner behavior.

The data shows that interviews are a helpful tool, providing an interview lift pct of 32.6. This lift can be used to improve the 57.4 percent baseline allowance rate significantly. Given the 108 resolved cases, practitioners have a sufficient data set to conclude that interviews are a valuable investment of time and resources. The 32.6 percent lift suggests that verbal advocacy is often necessary to overcome rejections during the 1426-day median prosecution period.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

57.4%
Allow Rate
-2.6% vs TC avg
156
Total Applications
+32.6%
Interview Lift
1426
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 108 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.8%
§101 Eligibility
14.5%
§102 Novelty
34.3%
§103 Obviousness
32.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17323715 GENERATION OF HOXA-EXPRESSING HEMOGENIC ENDOTHELIUM WITH ENHANCED T CELL POTENTIAL FROM HPSCS Non-Final OA Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
17783473 USE OF POLYVINYL ALCOHOL FOR CELL CULTURE OF IMMUNE CELLS Final Rejection The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
17609957 INDUCED HUMAN COLITIC ORGANOIDS Final Rejection The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
17924040 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MAKING AND USING ENDOCARDIAL CELLS Non-Final OA University Health Network
18573954 STRUCTURALLY COMPLETE ORGANOIDS Non-Final OA Children's Hospital Medical Center
17599028 USE OF ONCOLYTIC VIRUSES IN THE NEOADJUVANT THERAPY OF CANCER Non-Final OA AMGEN INC.
18262674 TREATMENT FOR HSV-1 USING A MEGANUCLEASE Non-Final OA FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER
18684884 PEPTIDE AND GELATIN HYBRID HYDROGELS AS ECONOMICAL ALTERNATIVES TO COMMON BASEMENT-MEMBRANE MATRICES Non-Final OA AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
17429391 GENETICALLY MODIFIED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS (HSPCS) AND MESENCHYMAL CELLS AS A PLATFORM TO REDUCE OR PREVENT METASTASIS, TREAT AUTOIMMUNE AND INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS, AND REBALANCE THE IMMUNE MILIEU AND DYSREGULATED NICHES Final Rejection The United States of America,as represented by the Secretary,Department of Health and Human Services
17783463 Compositions and Methods of Treating Cancer with Chimeric Antigen Receptors Targeting Glypican 3 Final Rejection MEDIMMUNE, LLC
17292296 USE OF ECM1 GENE-KNOCKOUT MOUSE IN SCREENING OF ANTI-HEPATIC FIBROSIS DRUG Non-Final OA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN MOLECULAR CELL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
18584830 FUNCTIONAL POROSOME MANIPULATION Final Rejection Porosome Therapeutics, Inc.
18446111 FUNCTIONAL POROSOME MANIPULATION Non-Final OA Porosome Therapeutics, Inc.
17050085 METHOD FOR EXPANDING HUMAN DC CELL AND HUMAN DC CELL RESOURCE LIBRARY Non-Final OA Celartics Biopharma Co., Ltd

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