Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
16 pending office actions • 2 clients • 16 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 11 (69%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (19%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS | 1 | 74.2% | +17.9% |
| HARVEY-BUTLER, AVANDA ELEXA | 1 | — | — |
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1 | 41.3% | +31.8% |
| LIU, GUOZHEN | 1 | 49.0% | +24.7% |
| GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA | 1 | 35.7% | +53.3% |
| ZHANG, KAIJIANG | 1 | 76.5% | +35.3% |
| PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE | 1 | 79.8% | +28.0% |
| RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD | 1 | 38.5% | +52.8% |
| HOPPE, EMMA RUTH | 1 | 42.9% | +49.2% |
| ZEMAN, MARY K | 1 | 59.0% | +34.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18300343 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING DATA | LIU, GUOZHEN | 18d overdue |
| 18302193 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IDENTIFYING LIGANDS ON ARRAYS USING INDEXES AND BARCODES | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 9d |
| 18885481 | METHODS OF PREPARING LOOP FORK LIBRARIES | YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS | 15d |
| 17813852 | METHODS FOR PREPARING SUBSTRATE SURFACE FOR DNA SEQUENCING | RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD | 27d |
| 18184556 | PAIRED-END SEQUENCING | ZHANG, KAIJIANG | 29d |
| 18190809 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SEQUENCING POLYNUCLEOTIDES | GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| ILLUMINA, INC. | 11 |
| ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1684 | 5 |
| 1683 | 3 |
| 1686 | 2 |
| 1681 | 2 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18885481 | METHODS OF PREPARING LOOP FORK LIBRARIES | Illumina, Inc. | YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS | 1684 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18325610 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | Illumina, Inc. | 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 | Illumina, Inc. | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18300343 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING DATA | Illumina, Inc. | LIU, GUOZHEN | 1686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18190809 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SEQUENCING POLYNUCLEOTIDES | Illumina, Inc. | GIAMMONA, FRANCESCA FILIPPA | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18184556 | PAIRED-END SEQUENCING | Illumina, Inc. | ZHANG, KAIJIANG | 1684 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18153946 | SEQUENCING FROM MULTIPLE PRIMERS TO INCREASE DATA RATE AND DENSITY | Illumina Cambridge Limited | PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE | 1684 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17813852 | METHODS FOR PREPARING SUBSTRATE SURFACE FOR DNA SEQUENCING | Illumina, Inc. | RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD | 1684 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 20, 2022 |
| 17555945 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | Illumina Cambridge Limited | 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 | Illumina Cambridge Limited | ZEMAN, MARY K | 1686 | Other | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
| 17550262 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING | Illumina Cambridge Limited | TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Dec 14, 2021 |
| 17618836 | METHODS FOR SEQUENCING POLYNUCLEOTIDES | Illumina, Inc. | WILDER, CYNTHIA B | 1681 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
| 17451771 | DNA SEQUENCING USING HYDROGEL BEADS | Illumina, Inc. | FLINDERS, JEREMY C | 1684 | Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2021 |
| 17478016 | REVERSIBLE MODIFICATION OF NUCLEOTIDES | Illumina Cambridge Limited | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 17, 2021 |
| 17447554 | CUSTOM DATA FILES FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE | Illumina, Inc. | WHALEY, PABLO S | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Sep 13, 2021 |
| 17250814 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING ORGAN HEALTH AND DISEASE | Illumina, Inc. | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2021 |
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