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Ginkgo Bioworks

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135 applicationsfiled 2007 to 2025

Allowance rate

50%

−26 pts vs the USPTO range 41% to 58%

Rejections before allowance

2.2

+0.6 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

20.5 mo

+1.9 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

34%

+6 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Compared with the office

Against every applicant before the USPTO

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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

C12N Microorganisms or enzymes73 apps

B01J 15 apps

C12P 15 apps

G16B Bioinformatics12 apps

C12Q Measuring or testing processes involving enzymes or nucleic acids5 apps

B82Y 4 apps

Art units

163723 apps

165219 apps

163415 apps

163913 apps

16368 apps

16567 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Young J Kim12 apps

75%

Ethan C Whisenant7 apps

86%

Aaron A Priest7 apps

57%

Kaijiang Zhang6 apps

67%

Christian L Fronda6 apps

50%

Tekchand Saidha5 apps

40%

David C Thomas4 apps

75%

Amy M Bunker4 apps

50%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Gen9, Inc.63 apps

48%

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.42 apps

38%

Zymergen Inc.15 apps

43%

TWIST BIOSCIENCE CORPORATION10 apps

100%

Bitome, Inc.1 apps

100%

Cargill, Incorporated1 apps

n/a

Synlogic Operating Company, Inc.1 apps

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY1 apps

100%

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What gets rejected, by statute

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

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Interviews

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Applications

Every application in the record

Application	Title	Filed	Status	Rejections	RCEs	To 1st action
19110994	PRODUCTION OF PROTEINS, INCLUDING SECRETED PROTEINS	2025-03-12	Pending	0	0	n/a
18868926	ENGINEERED PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE AND TYROSINE AMMONIA LYASE ENZYMES FOR PRODU…	2024-11-25	Abandoned	0	0	n/a
18859980	BIOSYNTHESIS OF CANNABINOIDS AND CANNABINOID PRECURSORS	2024-10-24	Abandoned	0	0	n/a
15837569	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15900919	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15947397	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15796543	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15199482	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15845110	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15531808	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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