Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ZEMAN, MARY K

Tech Center 1600 • Art Units: 1631 1672 1681 1686

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

59.2%
Allow Rate
-0.8% vs TC avg
560
Total Applications
+33.9%
Interview Lift
1507
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 532 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

33.7%
§101 Eligibility
18.8%
§102 Novelty
12.4%
§103 Obviousness
23.4%
§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.
16315573 METHODS FOR FRAGMENTOME PROFILING OF CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS 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.
17497536 BLOOD SPECIMEN ANALYSIS METHOD, ANALYZER, AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM Non-Final OA SYSMEX CORPORATION
17552326 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING HAPLOTYPES AND PHASING OF HAPLOTYPES Final Rejection 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.
17216551 Cancer Classification with Genomic Region Modeling Final Rejection Grail, Inc.
17505943 METHODS FOR DETECTING COPY-NUMBER VARIATIONS IN NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING Final Rejection SOPHIA GENETICS S.A.
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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