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Nicholas A. Smith

Examiner (ID: 12191, Phone: (571)272-8760 , Office: P/1754 )

Most Active Art Unit
1754
Art Unit(s)
1753, 4145, 1795, 1723, 1754, 1742, 1752, 1794, 4100
Total Applications
1300
Issued Applications
796
Pending Applications
92
Abandoned Applications
419

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/560239
NOVEL PROMOTER AND USE THEREOF Mar 2, 2022 Pending
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17/653395
Genelight cultures and extracts and applications thereof Mar 2, 2022 Issued
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17/677499
System and method for characterizing drug product impurities Feb 21, 2022 Issued
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17/676218
Nucleic acid-guided nickases Feb 19, 2022 Issued
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17/670467
DNA repair blood test for predicting response of lung cancer patients to immunotherapy Feb 12, 2022 Issued
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17/666248
CPF1 complexes with reduced indel activity Feb 6, 2022 Issued
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18/264207
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF ENGINEERED ZINC FINGERS INTO ENDOGENOUS TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS TO COMMANDEER THEIR NATURAL FUNCTIONS Feb 3, 2022 Pending
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17/587643
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING A TARGET MOLECULE Jan 27, 2022 Pending
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17/575952
Thermostable CAS9 nucleases Jan 13, 2022 Issued
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17/571415
ICAM-1 targeted fusion enzymes Jan 6, 2022 Issued
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17/646093
Synthesis of oligosaccharides Dec 26, 2021 Issued
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18/267024
METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR TREATING PROSTATE CANCER Dec 20, 2021 Pending
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18/270102
MICROORGANISMS ENGINEERED TO REDUCE HYPERPHENYLALANINEMIA Dec 16, 2021 Pending
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18/267373
AAV CAPSIDS AND VECTORS Dec 15, 2021 Pending
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18/039929
BIOSYNTHESIS METHOD Dec 2, 2021 Pending
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18/265002
ENGINEERED MICROORGANISMS Dec 1, 2021 Pending
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18/253864
GEOMETRIC SYNTHESIS METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DOUBLE-STRANDED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING Nov 21, 2021 Pending
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17/456092
Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with altered PAM specificity Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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17/456092
Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with altered PAM specificity Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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17/531450
MODIFIED NUCLEIC ACID EDITING SYSTEMS FOR TETHERING DONOR DNA Nov 18, 2021 Abandoned
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