Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Illumina Cambridge Limited

14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

1
Hard (7%)
8
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
5
Unknown (36%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (7%)
§103 only8 (57%)
No statute on record5 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
93% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 2 79.8% +28.0%
TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 2 0.0% +0.0%
HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 1 82.9% +15.9%
TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH 1 52.9% +41.9%
WILDER, CYNTHIA B 1 70.9% +26.6%
TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M 1 66.0% +6.7%
TURK, NEIL N 1 50.9% +44.8%
HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA 1 69.7% +36.4%
HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 1 42.9% +49.2%
ZEMAN, MARY K 1 59.0% +34.5%

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
19014928 HIGH SPEED SCANNING SYSTEM WITH ACCELERATION TRACKING HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 22d

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17525530 INCORPORATION AND IMAGING MIXES TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 72d overdue
17274155 METHOD TO DETERMINE IF A CIRCULATING FETAL CELL ISOLATED FROM A PREGNANT MOTHER IS FROM EITHER THE CURRENT OR A HISTORICAL PREGNANCY ROSSI, VY BUI 71d overdue
17550262 METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 13d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17552326 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING HAPLOTYPES AND PHASING OF HAPLOTYPES ZEMAN, MARY K 50d overdue
17555945 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 46d overdue
18492065 Methods of Nucleic Acid Sequencing WILDER, CYNTHIA B 22d overdue
18139689 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CLUSTER GENERATION BY BRIDGE AMPLIFICATION PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 18d overdue
17796853 FLOW CELLS AND METHODS FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA 3d overdue
17946742 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETECTING DENSELY-PACKED ANALYTES TURK, NEIL N 20d
19014928 HIGH SPEED SCANNING SYSTEM WITH ACCELERATION TRACKING HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 22d
18821807 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT AND SEQUENCING OF BIO-MOLECULES TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1684 3
1682 2
2487 1
1794 1
1681 1
1798 1
1796 1
1683 1
1686 1
1693 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19014928 HIGH SPEED SCANNING SYSTEM WITH ACCELERATION TRACKING HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 09, 2025
18821807 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT AND SEQUENCING OF BIO-MOLECULES TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18492065 Methods of Nucleic Acid Sequencing WILDER, CYNTHIA B 1681 Other Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18139689 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CLUSTER GENERATION BY BRIDGE AMPLIFICATION PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 1684 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
18131821 DIGITAL ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR ANALYTES USING SINGLE MOLECULE DETECTION TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M 1684 Other Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2023
18153946 SEQUENCING FROM MULTIPLE PRIMERS TO INCREASE DATA RATE AND DENSITY PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE 1684 Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2023
17946742 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETECTING DENSELY-PACKED ANALYTES TURK, NEIL N 1798 Other Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 16, 2022
17796853 FLOW CELLS AND METHODS FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2022
17555945 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING HOPPE, EMMA RUTH 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2021
17552326 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING HAPLOTYPES AND PHASING OF HAPLOTYPES ZEMAN, MARY K 1686 Other Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2021
17550262 METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 1682 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 14, 2021
17525530 INCORPORATION AND IMAGING MIXES TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK 1682 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2021
17478016 REVERSIBLE MODIFICATION OF NUCLEOTIDES LEE, HOI YAN NMN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 17, 2021
17274155 METHOD TO DETERMINE IF A CIRCULATING FETAL CELL ISOLATED FROM A PREGNANT MOTHER IS FROM EITHER THE CURRENT OR A HISTORICAL PREGNANCY ROSSI, VY BUI 1685 §101 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2021

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