Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: WOITACH, JOSEPH T

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1618 1631 1633 1672 1687

This examiner grants 49% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

49.1%
Allow Rate
-10.9% vs TC avg
452
Total Applications
+28.5%
Interview Lift
1705
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 381 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

35.0%
§101 Eligibility
4.2%
§102 Novelty
18.7%
§103 Obviousness
25.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17944948 COMPRESSED STATE-BASED BASE CALLING Non-Final OA Illumina, Inc.
17462906 DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS Final Rejection GUARDANT HEALTH, INC.
17000010 DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS Final Rejection GUARDANT HEALTH, INC.
15796642 DIAGNOSTIC METHODS Final Rejection Guardant Health, Inc.
15431395 DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE EXHIBITING DISEASE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING TEST RESULTS Non-Final OA Guardant Health, Inc.
17182817 METHODS, MODELS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING TARGET SEQUENCES FOR CAS ENZYMES FOR CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS FOR TARGET SEQUENCES AND CONVEYING RESULTS THEREOF Final Rejection President and Fellows of Harvard College
17900149 DRUG SCREENING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
17665345 DYNAMIC SCHEDULING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DYEING PROCESS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM Non-Final OA ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
17201243 Inexact Search Acceleration Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
17201022 High Speed, Parallel Configuration of Multiple Field Programmable Gate Arrays Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18435880 Methods and Systems for Analyzing Nucleic Acid Molecules Final Rejection The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
16579500 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING GENOMIC INFORMATION Non-Final OA FOUNDATION MEDICINE, INC.
17969021 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STRUCTURE-BASED DRUG DESIGN USING A MULTI-MODAL DEEP LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
16002329 METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUTISM Non-Final OA RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
16306213 METHOD FOR DETECTING A TARGET ANALYTE IN A SAMPLE USING A SIGNAL CHANGE-AMOUNT DATA SET Non-Final OA SEEGENE, INC.
17692606 METHOD FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION ON SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY Non-Final OA SYSMEX CORPORATION
17872980 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTROL DATA FOR OPERATION OF BIOSYSTEMS ON CHIPS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
19002783 METHODS FOR DETECTING FETAL COPY NUMBER VARIATION THROUGH NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL TESTING Non-Final OA Dr. HOAI NGHIA NGUYEN
17395203 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING GROUPS OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS BASED ON PREDICTED GROWTH POTENTIAL Final Rejection ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
17418168 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING TRAIT INFORMATION OF INDIVIDUALS Final Rejection OSAKA UNIVERSITY
16893585 METHODS, SYSTEMS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA, AND KITS FOR SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION Non-Final OA LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
17643559 SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE Final Rejection Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
17904573 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING RATES OF PROGRESSION OF AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION Non-Final OA The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services
17339598 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERATING CANDIDATE DRUGS Non-Final OA Peptilogics, Inc.
15555290 Ensemble-Based Research Recommendation Systems And Methods Non-Final OA Nantomics, LLC
16749923 Method for Detecting Tumor DNA in a cfDNA Sample Collected from a Patient that has Previously Undergone Cancer Therapy Non-Final OA Cancer Research Technology Limited
17245822 MICROBIOME BASED SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS Non-Final OA BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
17196480 Microbiome Based Systems, Apparatus and Methods for the Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons Final Rejection BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
17274140 ASSESSING HOST RNA USING ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION AND RELATIVE ABUNDANCE Non-Final OA Inflammatix, Inc.
17287448 CANCER SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC TARGETS GENERATED BY CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUG TREATMENT Final Rejection Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.

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