Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: SKIBINSKY, ANNA

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1631 1635

This examiner grants 39% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

38.8%
Allow Rate
-21.2% vs TC avg
712
Total Applications
+29.2%
Interview Lift
1645
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 680 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.4%
§101 Eligibility
4.8%
§102 Novelty
60.3%
§103 Obviousness
22.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17199286 METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING GENETIC MUTATIONS DETECTED IN CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS AS TUMOR OR NON-TUMOR ORIGIN Final Rejection GUARDANT HEALTH, INC.
19288411 MULTI-TIERED TESTING FOR TRACKING DISEASE HETEROGENEITY Final Rejection Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC
17291517 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVELY STORING, ACCESSING, AND EDITING INFORMATION USING NUCLEIC ACIDS Final Rejection North Carolina State University
17560734 PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATION PARAMETER ESTIMATION VIA MODEL SURROGATE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17685453 Microorganism Discrimination Method and System Non-Final OA SHIMADZU CORPORATION
18316200 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MEASURE CAR-T CELL QUALITY Non-Final OA Carnegie Mellon University
17691739 ANALYSIS METHOD AND ANALYZER Final Rejection SYSMEX CORPORATION
17857660 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED CARDIAC RHYTHM CLASSIFICATION FROM THE TIME BETWEEN HEART BEAT INTERVALS USING NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS Final Rejection UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION
17447844 METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE STATE OF AT LEAST ONE CAVITY OF A TRANSPORT INTERFACE CONFIGURED FOR TRANSPORTING SAMPLE TUBES Final Rejection Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
17288360 DEVICES AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS CONFIGURED TO ENABLE EXTENDED MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF SUBJECT NEUROLOGICAL FACTORS VIA BLEPHAROMETRIC DATA COLLECTION Final Rejection SDIP HOLDINGS PTY LTD
17911376 RETROSYNTHESIS-RELATED SYNTHETIC ACCESSIBILITY Non-Final OA INSILICO MEDICINE IP LIMITED
17642335 Method for identifying T-cell epitopes Non-Final OA Evaxion Biotech A/S
17968902 METHOD FOR ANALYZING GENETIC INTERACTION OF CANCER VIA MOLECULAR NETWORK REFINING PROCESS, AND SYSTEM USING SAME Non-Final OA INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
16982935 ADVANCED BIOPHYSICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CELLULAR MONITORING AND QUANTIFICATION USING LASER FORCE CYTOLOGY Non-Final OA Lumacyte, Inc.
17782290 METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE METABOLIC CONTENT OF A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE Non-Final OA BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
17387528 DETECTION OF RISK OF PRE-ECLAMPSIA IN OBESE PREGNANT WOMEN Non-Final OA METABOLOMIC DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
17765741 Systems and Methods for Fertility Prediction and Increasing Culling Accuracy and Breeding Decisions Final Rejection Acuity Ag Solutions, LLC
17313660 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DETERMINING A PROBABILITY OF A BLOOD GLUCOSE VALUE FOR A PATIENT BEING IN AN ADVERSE BLOOD GLUCOSE RANGE AT A PREDICTION TIME Final Rejection mySugr GmbH
17468627 SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF VIRUSES AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL PATHOGENS Non-Final OA Brewmetrix LLC

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