Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Exact Sciences Corporation

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (60%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (20%)
Double-patenting + other1 (20%)
No statute on record3 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GUSSOW, ANNE 1 58.2% +43.0%
HORLICK, KENNETH R 1 78.9% +15.2%
CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 1 41.3% +31.8%
HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1 36.6% +44.1%
GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1 46.0% +40.4%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17727128 DETECTING ESOPHAGEAL DISORDERS GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 104d overdue
18943512 FECAL SAMPLE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS COMPRISING DETECTION OF BLOOD GUSSOW, ANNE 45d overdue
18504006 MUTATION DETECTION ASSAY HORLICK, KENNETH R 12d
18353647 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING ZDHHC1 DNA HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 33d
18486477 MODIFICATION OF DNA ON MAGNETIC BEADS CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1683 2
1682 2
1681 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18943512 FECAL SAMPLE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS COMPRISING DETECTION OF BLOOD GUSSOW, ANNE 1683 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2024
18504006 MUTATION DETECTION ASSAY HORLICK, KENNETH R 1681 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18486477 MODIFICATION OF DNA ON MAGNETIC BEADS CROW, ROBERT THOMAS 1683 DPOther Non-Final OA 76d Pending Oct 13, 2023
18353647 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING ZDHHC1 DNA HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1682 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 17, 2023
17727128 DETECTING ESOPHAGEAL DISORDERS GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 Other Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022

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