Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cercacor Laboratories Inc. is currently navigating 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each individual application is subject to an independent review process. This lack of examiner overlap means that the company must engage with different sets of examination criteria and feedback styles. For the legal team, this necessitates a customized approach for each case rather than a centralized negotiation strategy.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a range of technical subject matter within the medical device field. This distribution can lead to varying timelines and procedural expectations. MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW is noted as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this busiest examiner only handles a single case, the workload is spread among the assigned officials.
The presence of multiple examiners and art units suggests that the firm is dealing with a broad array of intellectual property challenges. Practitioners should be prepared to maintain consistency in technical arguments across these different venues to avoid conflicting statements. With MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW managing 1 pending office action, the remaining files are each under the jurisdiction of other examiners, requiring a broad allocation of resources to manage the active workload effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 1 | 53.1% | +34.8% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.7% | +11.8% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.7% | +1.1% |
| SEREBOFF, NEAL | 1 | 28.3% | +33.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494585 | NON-INVASIVE MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE FOR BLOOD ANALYTE MEASUREMENTS | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 52d overdue |
| 17817602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KINK DETECTION IN A CANNULA | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 62d |
| 17727608 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF A PATIENT | SEREBOFF, NEAL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494585 | NON-INVASIVE MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE FOR BLOOD ANALYTE MEASUREMENTS | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 52d overdue |
| 18352850 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GLUCOSE SENSING BY EQUILIBRIUM GLUCOSE BINDING TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED GLUCOSE BINDING PROTEINS | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 68d |
| 17727608 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF A PATIENT | SEREBOFF, NEAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18494585 | NON-INVASIVE MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE FOR BLOOD ANALYTE MEASUREMENTS | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18352850 | ELECTROCHEMICAL GLUCOSE SENSING BY EQUILIBRIUM GLUCOSE BINDING TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED GLUCOSE BINDING PROTEINS | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 17817602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KINK DETECTION IN A CANNULA | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
| 17727608 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF A PATIENT | SEREBOFF, NEAL | 3683 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCercacor Laboratories Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Jonathan Drew Moroneso has the most, with 1 of Cercacor Laboratories Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
