Illumina, Inc.

Portfolio Summary

71

Total Pending OAs

50

Non-Final OAs

17

Final Rejections

4

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 69 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

31

Overdue

1

Due this week

21

Due this month

11

Due in next 60 days

5

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. 69 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

Overdue (31)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (21)Due ≤ 60 days (11)Due later (5)

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 (3%)

53

Medium (75%)

2

Easy (3%)

14

Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§101 only	2 (3%)
§103 only	47 (66%)
§102 only	6 (8%)
§112 only	2 (3%)
No statute on record	14 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

61

Life Sciences

86% of docket

3

Information Tech

4% of docket

1

Communications

1% of docket

5

Semiconductors

7% of docket

1

Mechanical / Eng

1% 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.

710 h

Manual time on pending OAs

142 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

248 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

6.2 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
CROW, ROBERT THOMAS	5	41.3%	+31.8%
KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES	3	58.1%	+37.7%
YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS	2	74.2%	+17.9%
SHI, TINGCHEN	2	70.2%	+25.7%
CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH	2	28.6%	+48.9%
GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA	2	35.7%	+53.3%
KRCHA, MATTHEW D	2	65.9%	+35.7%
DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN	2	—	—
SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE	2	33.3%	+40.2%
AUGER, NOAH ANDREW	2	34.8%	+37.7%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #	Title	Examiner	Due in
18300343	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING DATA	LIU, GUOZHEN	18d overdue
17864930	DECENTRALIZED WORKFLOWS FOR SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS	CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH	8d overdue
17656173	MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR DETECTING A BUBBLE WITHIN A NUCLEOTIDE-SAMPLE SLIDE FOR SEQUENCING	KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES	33d
18285222	BLOCKING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES FOR THE SELECTIVE DEPLETION OF NON-DESIRABLE FRAGMENTS FROM AMPLIFIED LIBRARIES	CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH	70d

Interview Candidates (22)

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 #	Title	Examiner	Due in
17314513	GENOME SEQUENCING AND DETECTION TECHNIQUES	AUGER, NOAH ANDREW	147d overdue
17687551	TILE LOCATION AND/OR CYCLE BASED WEIGHT SET SELECTION FOR BASE CALLING	SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE	56d overdue
17197836	Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis from Single Cells	GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA	43d overdue
18176761	FUNCTIONALIZED NANOSTRUCTURES AND FLOW CELL DEPRESSIONS	CROW, ROBERT THOMAS	24d overdue
17864930	DECENTRALIZED WORKFLOWS FOR SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS	CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH	8d overdue
18215794	IN-SITU FLUIDIC INSPECTION	SHI, TINGCHEN	5d overdue
17175546	Artificial Intelligence-Based Base Calling of Index Sequences	AUGER, NOAH ANDREW	5d overdue
18505624	SPATIALLY DISTINGUISHED, MULTIPLEX NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS	SHI, TINGCHEN	3d overdue

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
1683	8
1684	7
1681	7
1685	7
1686	6
1682	5
1796	5
1798	5
1687	4
2877	3

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
19362991	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPLATE GENERATION	MOTSINGER, SEAN T	2673	§103	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Oct 20, 2025
18987285	SEQUENCE DATA PROCESSING, RETENTION, AND RECOVERY	HU, JENSEN	2169	§102	Final Rejection	35d	Pending	Dec 19, 2024
18885481	METHODS OF PREPARING LOOP FORK LIBRARIES	YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS	1684	§103	Non-Final OA	15d	Pending	Sep 13, 2024
18725694	IMAGING SYSTEMS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS	PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL	2877	§103	Non-Final OA	60d overdue	Pending	Jun 28, 2024
18572189	IMAGING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS	PHILLIPS, RUFUS L	2877	§103	Non-Final OA	76d	Pending	Dec 20, 2023
18538262	ALTERED CYTIDINE DEAMINASES AND METHODS OF USE	HUTSON, RICHARD G	1652	§103	Non-Final OA	53d	Pending	Dec 13, 2023
18534113	FLOW CELLS AND SEQUENCING KITS	JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE	1682	§103	Non-Final OA	4d overdue	Pending	Dec 08, 2023
18565027	POLYNUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING USING IONOPHORES	KIM, YOUNG J	1681	§102	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Nov 28, 2023
18505624	SPATIALLY DISTINGUISHED, MULTIPLEX NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS	SHI, TINGCHEN	1796	§103	Final Rejection	3d overdue	Pending	Nov 09, 2023
18285222	BLOCKING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES FOR THE SELECTIVE DEPLETION OF NON-DESIRABLE FRAGMENTS FROM AMPLIFIED LIBRARIES	CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH	1683	§103	Non-Final OA	70d	Pending	Sep 29, 2023
18373592	METHOD FOR REDUCING VIBRATION USING SEGMENTED ACCELERATION	ROYSTON, JOHN M	2855	§103	Non-Final OA	71d	Pending	Sep 27, 2023
18474589	FLOW CELL BASED MOTION SYSTEM CALIBRATION AND CONTROL METHODS	HOBBS, MICHAEL L	1799	§103	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Sep 26, 2023
18467770	NANOPARTICLE WITH POLYNUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF	CROW, ROBERT THOMAS	1683	§103	Non-Final OA	29d	Pending	Sep 15, 2023
18215794	IN-SITU FLUIDIC INSPECTION	SHI, TINGCHEN	1796	§103	Non-Final OA	5d overdue	Pending	Jun 28, 2023
18215641	NON-CONTACT DISPENSERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS	LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN	1796	§103	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Jun 28, 2023
18343696	SEQUENCING NANOPARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME	CROW, ROBERT THOMAS	1683	§103	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Jun 28, 2023
18325610	COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING	HARVEY-BUTLER, AVANDA ELEXA	1683	§103	Non-Final OA	21d	Pending	May 30, 2023
18302193	METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IDENTIFYING LIGANDS ON ARRAYS USING INDEXES AND BARCODES	CROW, ROBERT THOMAS	1683	§103	Non-Final OA	9d	Pending	Apr 18, 2023
18300343	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING DATA	LIU, GUOZHEN	1686	§101	Non-Final OA	18d overdue	Pending	Apr 13, 2023
18297891	SENSOR WITH LIGHT FILTER AND CROSSTALK REDUCTION MEDIUM	FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN	2817	§103	Non-Final OA	11d overdue	Pending	Apr 10, 2023
18129565	MACHINE LEARNING MODELING OF PROBE INTENSITY	RODEN, DONALD THOMAS	2128	§103	Non-Final OA	3d overdue	Pending	Mar 31, 2023
18193492	NANOPORE DEVICES INCLUDING BARRIERS USING DIBLOCK OR TRIBLOCK COPOLYMERS, AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME	WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN	1783	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Mar 30, 2023
18193517	NANOPORE DEVICES INCLUDING BARRIERS USING POLYMERS WITH END GROUPS, AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME	CHIU, TAK LIANG	1777	§103	Non-Final OA	63d	Pending	Mar 30, 2023
18190809	SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SEQUENCING POLYNUCLEOTIDES	GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA	1681	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Mar 27, 2023
18187608	CHEMICAL PLANAR ARRAY	KOVACH, KARA NICOLE	1681	§103	Non-Final OA	82d	Pending	Mar 21, 2023
18187445	FLUIDIC DEVICES INCLUDING HYBRID BONDING, AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME	KRCHA, MATTHEW D	1796	§103	Final Rejection	41d	Pending	Mar 21, 2023
18185208	METHODS FOR MAKING FLOW CELL SURFACES	AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K	1743	§103	Non-Final OA	55d	Pending	Mar 16, 2023
18184556	PAIRED-END SEQUENCING	ZHANG, KAIJIANG	1684	§102	Non-Final OA	29d	Pending	Mar 15, 2023
18176761	FUNCTIONALIZED NANOSTRUCTURES AND FLOW CELL DEPRESSIONS	CROW, ROBERT THOMAS	1683	§103	Non-Final OA	24d overdue	Pending	Mar 01, 2023
18166023	FLOW CELL SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO SAME	KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH	1798	§103	Non-Final OA	81d overdue	Pending	Feb 08, 2023
18164341	Microfluidic Droplet Generators	CROW, ROBERT THOMAS	1683	Other	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Feb 03, 2023
18156846	LIGHT ENERGY FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION	XU, XIAOYUN	1797	§112	Final Rejection	33d	Pending	Jan 19, 2023
18003281	FANOUT FLOW CELL	HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH	1798	§103	Non-Final OA	45d overdue	Pending	Dec 23, 2022
18069688	INSTRUMENTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MEASURING LIQUID FLOW THROUGH CHANNELS	GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY	1798	§103	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	Dec 21, 2022
18009545	DRY REAGENT CUP ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS	HANDY, DWAYNE K	1798	§102	Non-Final OA	10d overdue	Pending	Dec 09, 2022
18008953	COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SEQUENCING USING AT LEAST ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS	KENNEDY, SARAH JANE	1682	§103	Final Rejection	32d overdue	Pending	Dec 07, 2022
17936200	FLOW CELLS WITH DARK QUENCHER	KRCHA, MATTHEW D	1796	§103	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Sep 28, 2022
17898155	FLOW CELLS WITH NANO-PADS AND A HYDROPHOBIC BARRIER	LAPAGE, MICHAEL P	2877	§103	Final Rejection	31d overdue	Pending	Aug 29, 2022
17896176	FLOW CELL IMAGE SENSOR ARRANGEMENT WITH REDUCED CROSSTALK	BRAZIN, JACQUELINE	1798	§103	Non-Final OA	—	Pending	Aug 26, 2022
17876528	BASE CALLING USING MULTIPLE BASE CALLER MODELS	FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA	1685	§103	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	Jul 28, 2022
17813852	METHODS FOR PREPARING SUBSTRATE SURFACE FOR DNA SEQUENCING	RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD	1684	§103	Non-Final OA	27d	Pending	Jul 20, 2022
17864930	DECENTRALIZED WORKFLOWS FOR SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS	CASH, KAILEY ELIZABETH	1683	Other	Non-Final OA	8d overdue	Pending	Jul 14, 2022
17808902	MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR GENERATING CONFIDENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR GENOMIC COORDINATES	DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN	1686	§103	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Jun 24, 2022
17839387	QUALITY SCORE CALIBRATION OF BASECALLING SYSTEMS	DARRIGRAND, EMILY ANN	1686	§103	Non-Final OA	16d overdue	Pending	Jun 13, 2022
17805138	SIGNAL-TO-NOISE-RATIO METRIC FOR DETERMINING NUCLEOTIDE-BASE CALLS AND BASE-CALL QUALITY	KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES	1685	§102	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	Jun 02, 2022
17830287	SELF-LEARNED BASE CALLER, TRAINED USING OLIGO SEQUENCES	SKOWRONEK, KARLHEINZ R	1687	§103	Non-Final OA	10d overdue	Pending	Jun 01, 2022
17830316	SELF-LEARNED BASE CALLER, TRAINED USING ORGANISM SEQUENCES	PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN	1686	Other	Non-Final OA	10d overdue	Pending	Jun 01, 2022
17826091	FLOW CELLS AND METHODS	TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK	1682	Other	Final Rejection	50d overdue	Pending	May 26, 2022
17748455	UMI COLLAPSING	DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI	1686	§102	Final Rejection	45d overdue	Pending	May 19, 2022
17747603	MULTI-OMIC ANALYSIS OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN MONODISPERSE DROPLETS	GRAY, JESSICA	1682	Other	Non-Final OA	23d	Pending	May 18, 2022
17703958	EFFICIENT VOXELIZATION FOR DEEP LEARNING	SMITH, EMILIE ALINE	1686	Other	Non-Final OA	10d overdue	Pending	Mar 24, 2022
17656173	MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR DETECTING A BUBBLE WITHIN A NUCLEOTIDE-SAMPLE SLIDE FOR SEQUENCING	KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES	1685	§101	Final Rejection	33d	Pending	Mar 23, 2022
17700088	METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING	KAUP, SAHANA S	1612	Other	Non-Final OA	112d overdue	Pending	Mar 21, 2022
17687586	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED BASE CALLER WITH CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS	KALLAL, ROBERT JAMES	1685	§103	Non-Final OA	2d overdue	Pending	Mar 04, 2022
17687551	TILE LOCATION AND/OR CYCLE BASED WEIGHT SET SELECTION FOR BASE CALLING	SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE	1685	§103	Non-Final OA	56d overdue	Pending	Mar 04, 2022
17586760	Method and System for a Reduced Computation Hidden Markov Model in Computational Biology Applications	SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE	1685	Other	Final Rejection	8d	Pending	Jan 27, 2022
17563934	MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR RECALIBRATING NUCLEOTIDE BASE CALLS CORRESPONDING TO TARGET VARIANTS	HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD	1685	Other	Final Rejection	14d	Pending	Dec 28, 2021
17618836	METHODS FOR SEQUENCING POLYNUCLEOTIDES	WILDER, CYNTHIA B	1681	§103	Final Rejection	19d	Pending	Dec 13, 2021
17518129	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING PATHOGENIC MICROBES IN A PATIENT	OYEYEMI, OLAYINKA A	1681	Other	Non-Final OA	28d	Pending	Nov 03, 2021
17518135	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SEQUENCING LIBRARIES	YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS	1684	§103	Non-Final OA	3d overdue	Pending	Nov 03, 2021
17511353	DETECTING MATERIALS IN A MIXTURE USING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES	SISSON, BRADLEY L	1682	§112	Final Rejection	22d	Pending	Oct 26, 2021
17451771	DNA SEQUENCING USING HYDROGEL BEADS	FLINDERS, JEREMY C	1684	Other	Non-Final OA	31d overdue	Pending	Oct 21, 2021
17447554	CUSTOM DATA FILES FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE	WHALEY, PABLO S	3619	§103	Final Rejection	5d	Pending	Sep 13, 2021
17411980	Detecting and Filtering Clusters Based on Artificial Intelligence-Predicted Base Calls	NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T	2147	§103	Final Rejection	39d	Pending	Aug 25, 2021
17421573	DNA METHYLATION MEASUREMENT FOR MAMMALS BASED ON CONSERVED LOCI	LAFAVE, ELIZABETH ROSE	1684	§103	Final Rejection	13d	Pending	Jul 08, 2021
17314513	GENOME SEQUENCING AND DETECTION TECHNIQUES	AUGER, NOAH ANDREW	1687	§103	Non-Final OA	147d overdue	Pending	May 07, 2021
17197836	Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis from Single Cells	GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA	1681	Other	Non-Final OA	43d overdue	Pending	Mar 10, 2021
17250814	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING ORGAN HEALTH AND DISEASE	BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM	1687	§103	Non-Final OA	45d overdue	Pending	Mar 05, 2021
17175546	Artificial Intelligence-Based Base Calling of Index Sequences	AUGER, NOAH ANDREW	1687	§103	Final Rejection	5d overdue	Pending	Feb 12, 2021
17145846	SPATIAL MAPPING OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE INFORMATION	CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA	1681	Other	Non-Final OA	9d	Pending	Jan 11, 2021
16000505	SINGLE CELL WHOLE GENOME LIBRARIES FOR METHYLATION SEQUENCING	OLSON, ALEXANDRA NADINE	1684	Other	Non-Final OA	202d overdue	Pending	Jun 05, 2018

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