Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cercacor Laboratories Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
25% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 1 57.3% +32.3%
SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 1 64.1% +11.9%
MESSERSMITH, ERIC J 1 69.6% +24.7%
PLUMB, NIGEL H 1 90.6% +1.2%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17817602 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KINK DETECTION IN A CANNULA PLUMB, NIGEL H 62d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18494585 NON-INVASIVE MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE FOR BLOOD ANALYTE MEASUREMENTS MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 52d overdue
18143469 ANALYTE SENSOR FOR MEASURING AT VARYING DEPTHS WITHIN A USER MESSERSMITH, ERIC J 34d
18352850 ELECTROCHEMICAL GLUCOSE SENSING BY EQUILIBRIUM GLUCOSE BINDING TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED GLUCOSE BINDING PROTEINS SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN 68d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3791 2
1795 1
2855 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18494585 NON-INVASIVE MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE FOR BLOOD ANALYTE MEASUREMENTS MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 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
18143469 ANALYTE SENSOR FOR MEASURING AT VARYING DEPTHS WITHIN A USER MESSERSMITH, ERIC J 3791 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 04, 2023
17817602 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KINK DETECTION IN A CANNULA PLUMB, NIGEL H 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Aug 04, 2022

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