Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: ZEMAN, MARY K

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1631 1672 1681 1686

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

59.0%
Allow Rate
-1.0% vs TC avg
564
Total Applications
+34.5%
Interview Lift
1448
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 536 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

18.0%
§101 Eligibility
11.8%
§102 Novelty
22.9%
§103 Obviousness
13.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17693744 Machine Learning for Somatic Single Nucleotide Variant Detection in Cell-free Tumor Nucleic acid Sequencing Applications Final Rejection GUARDANT HEALTH, INC.
17407000 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE CELLULAR ORIGIN OF CELL-FREE DNA Non-Final OA GUARDANT HEALTH, INC.
19340724 PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FOR SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Non-Final OA X Development LLC
17535474 METHOD OF DETERMINING CONTINUOUS DRUG DOSE USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND PHARMACOKINETIC-PHARMACODYNAMIC MODELS Non-Final OA POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation
17247510 Real-World Evidence of Diagnostic Testing and Treatment Patterns in U.S. Breast Cancer Patients with Implications for Treatment Biomarkers from RNA-Sequencing Data Non-Final OA TEMPUS AI. INC.
17805656 METHODS OF DETERMINING TISSUES AND/OR CELL TYPES GIVING RISE TO CELL-FREE DNA, AND METHODS OF IDENTIFYING A DISEASE OR DISORDER USING SAME Non-Final OA UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
17552326 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING HAPLOTYPES AND PHASING OF HAPLOTYPES Non-Final OA ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED
18878969 DISCOVERY SYSTEM FOR CANDIDATES BASED ON TARGET PROTEIN STRUCTURES AND ITS OPERATION METHOD Final Rejection CALICI CO., LTD.
18951277 METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING POLYPEPTIDES Final Rejection Encodia, Inc.
17550380 method for classifying individuals in mixtures of DNA and its deep learning model Non-Final OA National Taiwan University
17616626 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSTICS FOR BIOLOGICAL DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH PERIODIC VARIATIONS IN METAL METABOLISM Non-Final OA Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
17548444 TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA TYPES Non-Final OA BostonGene Corporation
17403194 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR GENERATING CANDIDATE DRUGS USING EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION AND PEPTIDE DRUG OPTIMIZATION Final Rejection Peptilogics, Inc.
17449734 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPUTING OR PREDICTING GENOTYPE OR PHENOTYPE Final Rejection PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
17285325 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLAIM SCOPE LABELING, RETRIEVAL AND INFORMATION LABELING OF GENE SEQUENCE Non-Final OA Patsnap Limited
17279277 VACCINE POLYPEPTIDE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS Non-Final OA Phoenix Children's Hospital, Inc.
16869455 DETECTING REPEAT EXPANSIONS WITH SHORT READ SEQUENCING DATA Final Rejection Illumina Cambridge Ltd.
16222798 Systems and Methods For RNA Analysis In Functional Confirmation Of Cancer Mutations Non-Final OA Five3 Genomics, LLC

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