Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cambridge Enterprise Limited

20 pending office actions • 18 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

2
Hard (10%)
15
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (5%)
2
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (10%)
§103 only15 (75%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record2 (10%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

14
Life Sciences
70% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
5
Semiconductors
25% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
5% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COOK, JONATHON 1 81.6% +17.6%
HIDALGO, FERNANDO N 1 93.3% +1.4%
MAGUIRE, LINDSAY M 1 51.3% +32.1%
JACKSON III, WALTER 1
VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1 67.7% +39.0%
JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY 1 60.8% -13.4%
QUIST, NICOLE LEE 1 93.9% +8.3%
AMARA, MOHAMED K 1 75.7% +30.0%
BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 1 61.5% +17.0%
FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1 64.3% +15.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18190899 DESULFURISATION OF LEAD-CONTAINING WASTE QUIST, NICOLE LEE 26d overdue
18842751 Resistive Switching Devices and Methods for their Manufacture and Operation HIDALGO, FERNANDO N 1d overdue
19055839 OPTICAL MICROSCOPY COOK, JONATHON 36d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17764145 MULTIDIMENSIONAL MICROFLUIDIC PROTEIN CHARACTERISATION VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN 126d overdue
18562409 IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO MEASUREMENT APPARATUSES MAGUIRE, LINDSAY M 15d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17999619 OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ADAPTERS AND METHOD FLINDERS, JEREMY C 86d overdue
18014701 INTERFEROMETRIC SCATTERING CORRELATION (ISCORR) MICROSCOPY AMARA, MOHAMED K 71d overdue
18562409 IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO MEASUREMENT APPARATUSES MAGUIRE, LINDSAY M 15d overdue
18460022 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENERATING EMBRYOS IN VITRO FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 12d
18001655 THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT USING PROTEIN KINASE C (PKC) INHIBITORS AND CYTOTOXIC AGENTS BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 34d
19055839 OPTICAL MICROSCOPY COOK, JONATHON 36d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2877 2
1738 2
2827 1
3619 1
1638 1
1633 1
2872 1
1693 1
1684 1
2853 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19055839 OPTICAL MICROSCOPY COOK, JONATHON 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Feb 18, 2025
18842751 Resistive Switching Devices and Methods for their Manufacture and Operation HIDALGO, FERNANDO N 2827 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2024
18562409 IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO MEASUREMENT APPARATUSES MAGUIRE, LINDSAY M 3619 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2023
18485192 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR GENERATING EMBRYOS IN VITRO FROM EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS JACKSON III, WALTER 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2023
18460022 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENERATING EMBRYOS IN VITRO FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN 1633 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18033225 GHOST IMAGE FREE PROJECTION AT ARBITRARY DISTANCE JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY 2872 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18190899 DESULFURISATION OF LEAD-CONTAINING WASTE QUIST, NICOLE LEE 1738 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2023
18014701 INTERFEROMETRIC SCATTERING CORRELATION (ISCORR) MICROSCOPY AMARA, MOHAMED K 2877 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18001655 THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT USING PROTEIN KINASE C (PKC) INHIBITORS AND CYTOTOXIC AGENTS BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17999619 OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ADAPTERS AND METHOD FLINDERS, JEREMY C 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17926915 MODE LOCALISED ACCELEROMETER PARCO JR, RUBEN C 2853 §103 Final Rejection 65d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17926780 IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO AN APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERISING A COMPONENT TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 1677 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17999478 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING PHASE TRANSITION CHARACTERISTICS OF MACROMOLECULES GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY 1798 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17813577 CONTROL OF MEIOTIC CROSSOVER IN MAIZE ZHENG, LI 1662 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2022
17764145 MULTIDIMENSIONAL MICROFLUIDIC PROTEIN CHARACTERISATION VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN 1686 §101 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2022
17633889 LIQUID DRESSING COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USES COHEN, MICHAEL P 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 100d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2022
17632023 Identification and Elimination of HCMV-Infected Cells KOLKER, DANIEL E 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2022
17616246 BREAST CANCER DETECTION METHODS SULLIVAN, DENNIS JOHN 1642 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2021
17424875 RECYCLING OF LEAD-CONTAINING WASTE QIAN, YUN 1738 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Jul 21, 2021
16794723 Transcription Factor Mediated Programming Towards Megakaryocytes CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F 1634 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 19, 2020

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