Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings

17 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

12
Hard (71%)
3
Medium (18%)
1
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§101 + other4 (24%)
§103 only3 (18%)
Double-patenting only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (41%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
76% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
2
Business / Other
12% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 3 58.0% +16.2%
ZOU, NIANXIANG 2 64.0% +24.4%
LIU, SHUYI S 2 73.3% +26.6%
BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A 1 64.1% +27.7%
ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 1 66.7% +0.0%
CHOI, DAVID 1 19.1% +27.8%
TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 1 33.3% +50.2%
PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE 1 37.3% +28.9%
DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1 56.8% +35.6%
CLOW, LORI A 1 64.0% +28.6%

Hard Cases (12)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17508682 BLOOD SAMPLING SYSTEM AND METHOD COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM 42d overdue
18205255 Methods and Systems for Quantitative Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Using Dried Samples TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 38d overdue
18451730 PREDICTING AN ANIMAL HEALTH RESULT FROM LABORATORY TEST MONITORING CHOI, DAVID 35d overdue
17845629 Methods and Systems for Detection of Covid Variants ZOU, NIANXIANG 20d
18068782 Compositions, Kits, and Systems for the Rapid Detection of Bacteria Using Recombinant Bacteriophage to Express an Indicator Subunit KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 72d
18424298 BIOMARKERS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS ACTIVITY BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A
18411772 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE RAPID DETECTION OF SALMONELLA USING INFECTIOUS AGENTS ZOU, NIANXIANG
18506364 SYNTHETIC PHAGE WITH RECOMBINANT TAIL-SPIKE PROTEINS AND RELATED METHODS ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN

Interview Candidates (13)

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
18205255 Methods and Systems for Quantitative Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Using Dried Samples TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 38d overdue
18451730 PREDICTING AN ANIMAL HEALTH RESULT FROM LABORATORY TEST MONITORING CHOI, DAVID 35d overdue
18360631 Methos for detection of microorganisms KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 23d overdue
17729761 Ultracompact Centrifuge, Specimen Container, and Methods of Use LIU, SHUYI S 14d
17719759 Method and Device for Portable and Energy Efficient Centrifugation LIU, SHUYI S 14d
17845629 Methods and Systems for Detection of Covid Variants ZOU, NIANXIANG 20d
18068782 Compositions, Kits, and Systems for the Rapid Detection of Bacteria Using Recombinant Bacteriophage to Express an Indicator Subunit KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 72d
18424298 BIOMARKERS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS ACTIVITY BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1672 4
1671 2
1687 2
1774 2
3684 1
1677 1
1682 1
3791 1
1686 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18424298 BIOMARKERS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS ACTIVITY BELYAVSKYI, MICHAIL A §101DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 26, 2024
18411772 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE RAPID DETECTION OF SALMONELLA USING INFECTIOUS AGENTS ZOU, NIANXIANG 1671 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2024
18506364 SYNTHETIC PHAGE WITH RECOMBINANT TAIL-SPIKE PROTEINS AND RELATED METHODS ALAM, DANYAL HASSAN 1672 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 10, 2023
18500064 Dynamic Clinical Assay Pipeline for Detecting a Virus KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 1672 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 01, 2023
18451730 PREDICTING AN ANIMAL HEALTH RESULT FROM LABORATORY TEST MONITORING CHOI, DAVID 3684 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18360631 Methos for detection of microorganisms KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 1672 Other Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18205255 Methods and Systems for Quantitative Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Using Dried Samples TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH 1677 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18068782 Compositions, Kits, and Systems for the Rapid Detection of Bacteria Using Recombinant Bacteriophage to Express an Indicator Subunit KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN 1672 §103§112 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Dec 20, 2022
17802913 Methods and Systems to Determine HLA-DPB1 Expression PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE 1687 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2022
17845629 Methods and Systems for Detection of Covid Variants ZOU, NIANXIANG 1671 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jun 21, 2022
17739978 ASSAYS FOR SINGLE MOLECULE DETECTION AND USE THEREOF DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1682 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2022
17729761 Ultracompact Centrifuge, Specimen Container, and Methods of Use LIU, SHUYI S 1774 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Apr 26, 2022
17719759 Method and Device for Portable and Energy Efficient Centrifugation LIU, SHUYI S 1774 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Apr 13, 2022
17686953 Biomarkers and Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Inflammatory Disease Activity CLOW, LORI A 1687 §101§103DP Final Rejection Pending Mar 04, 2022
17508682 BLOOD SAMPLING SYSTEM AND METHOD COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2021
17443124 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT PATHOGEN TESTING LIU, GUOZHEN 1686 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 21, 2021
17339625 METHODS FOR DETECTING ANEUPLOIDY WOITACH, JOSEPH T DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 04, 2021

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