Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, EMILIE ALINE

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1637 1671 1686

This examiner grants 51% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

50.7%
Allow Rate
-9.3% vs TC avg
105
Total Applications
+34.6%
Interview Lift
1581
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 73 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.6%
§101 Eligibility
11.0%
§102 Novelty
29.1%
§103 Obviousness
21.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17175425 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING FUSION EVENTS Non-Final OA Guardant Health, Inc.
17658284 PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL MANUFACTURING SYSTEM Final Rejection Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
17192530 METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPOUND STRUCTURE, PROGRAM FOR GENERATING COMPOUND STRUCTURE, AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING COMPOUND STRUCTURE Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
17788304 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMAL VACCINE DESIGN Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17768059 DNA Copy Number Alterations (CNAs) to Determine Cancer Phenotypes Non-Final OA The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
17175495 DEEP LEARNING APPROACH TO CORRELATE CELLULAR MORPHOLOGY AND GENETICS Non-Final OA The Regents of the University of California
17914279 ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION APPARATUS, ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18151686 T-CELL RECEPTOR OPTIMIZATION WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND MUTATION POLICIES FOR PRECISION IMMUNOTHERAPY Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
17793974 GUIDED ANALYSIS OF SINGLE CELL SEQUENCING DATA USING BULK SEQUENCING DATA Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18047818 TECHNOLOGIES FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING DETECTION Non-Final OA BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
17833394 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING RECOMBINANT VARIANTS Non-Final OA Illumina, Inc.
17703958 EFFICIENT VOXELIZATION FOR DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA Illumina, Inc.
17699053 GENOME SEQUENCING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS Final Rejection Washington University
17756068 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTAMINATION DETECTION IN NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING SAMPLES Non-Final OA Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
17929782 Methods and Apparatuses for Estimating Parameters in a Predictive Model for Use in Sequencing-by-Synthesis Non-Final OA LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION

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