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Prosecution Insights
Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1687
This examiner grants 50% of resolved cases
Diana Patricia Sanford is an examiner in Tech Center 1600 and Art Unit 1687. The examiner has a record of 16 resolved cases. The allowance rate for these cases is 50.0 percent. This 50.0 percent rate indicates that half of the applications assigned to this examiner eventually reach allowance.
The interview lift for this examiner is 33.3 percent. This 33.3 percent lift suggests that interviews can provide a significant increase in the probability of success. The median days to allowance is 1649. This 1649-day period is an important consideration for practitioners when planning their prosecution strategy in Art Unit 1687. The 16 resolved cases provide the data necessary to understand the examiner's tendencies in Tech Center 1600.
Applicants can use the 1649 median days to allowance to estimate the time required to secure a patent. The 50.0 percent allowance rate serves as a baseline indicator of the examiner's historical approach to applications. Furthermore, the 33.3 percent interview lift offers a strong signal for pursuing direct communication during the examination process.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321106 | METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD, DESIGN DEVICE, DESIGN PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PRIMER FOR AMPLICON METHYLATION SEQUENCE ANALYSIS | Non-Final OA | FUJIFILM Corporation |
| 17945689 | CALCULATION METHOD FOR BASE METHYLATION DEGREE AND PROGRAM | Final Rejection | FUJIFILM Corporation |
| 17884852 | CELL CULTURE PROCESS SEARCH METHOD, CELL CULTURE PROCESS SEARCH PROGRAM, CELL CULTURE PROCESS SEARCH DEVICE, AND LEARNED MODEL | Final Rejection | FUJIFILM Corporation |
| 17723939 | COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING A BIOPOLYMER PROPERTY OF A BIOPOLYMER | Final Rejection | Robert Bosch GmbH |
| 17795091 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MANUFACTURING CONDITION FOR POLYARYLENE SULFIDE RESIN COMPOSITE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RESIN COMPOSITE | Final Rejection | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
| 17625180 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING GLUCOSE CHANGE IN A SUBJECT | Final Rejection | Eli Lilly and Company |
| 18037682 | Protein Structure Prediction | Non-Final OA | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC |
| 18319803 | PEPTIDE BINDING MOTIF GENERATION | Non-Final OA | NEC Laboratories America, Inc. |
| 17775187 | MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS AND A PROCESS TO DISCOVER NEW NATURAL PRODUCTS BY LINKING GENOMES AND METABOLOMES IN FUNGI | Final Rejection | Northwestern University |
| 17792639 | MOLECULE DESIGN | Final Rejection | Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC |
| 18481469 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE FOR METABOLITE ANALYSIS | Non-Final OA | SHIMADZU CORPORATION |
| 17746712 | PRECISION ENRICHMENT OF PATHOLOGY SPECIMENS | Final Rejection | Foundation Medicine, Inc. |
| 17922222 | A METHOD FOR DETECTING REACTION VOLUME DEVIATIONS IN A DIGITAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION | Non-Final OA | Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. |
| 17773907 | Identification and Characterisation of Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators | Non-Final OA | Oxford University Innovation Limited |
| 18142035 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS DETECTION | Non-Final OA | National Central University |
| 18307482 | MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR SELECTING OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES FOR ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES | Final Rejection | Illumina, Inc. |
| 17881713 | IMAGE ACQUISITION METHODS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY DETECTING GENETIC REARRANGEMENT AND NUCLEAR MORPHOLOGY | Non-Final OA | Cornell University |
| 17910556 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FOR PREDICTING DISEASE RISK BASED ON MULTIMODAL FUSION | Non-Final OA | SHANDONG UNIVERSITY |
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