Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17139031 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING OPTIMIZED MUTANT PROTEIN SEQUENCE USING AMINO ACID COEVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION | December 2020 | February 2024 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17130659 | Method Of Synthesizing Chemical Compounds | December 2020 | September 2024 | Abandon | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17247742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SELF-DETERMINE A MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL (NON-PHYSICAL) WELLNESS SCORE OVER TIME USING DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS (BASED ON COGNITIVE BIAS) WHICH RESPOND TO VARIOUS ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS THROUGH A SERIES OF SENSORS, FEEDBACK, ACTIVITIES AND CONVERSATIONAL METHODS. | December 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17253023 | MRI STREAK-ARTIFACT SUPPRESSION, SYSTEM AND METHOD | December 2020 | May 2024 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17117921 | RECOMBINASE DISCOVERY | December 2020 | September 2023 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17113008 | GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES USING GENE RANKINGS AND STATISTICAL MODELS FOR IDENTIFYING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE CHARACTERISTICS | December 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17112433 | Method for Stratifying IBS Patients | December 2020 | October 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17108958 | MACHINE LEARNING METHOD FOR PROTEIN MODELLING TO DESIGN ENGINEERED PEPTIDES | December 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17108890 | Protein Structure Prediction from Amino Acid Sequences Using Self-Attention Neural Networks | December 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17100987 | METHODS AND KITS FOR DETERMINING A PERSONALIZED TREATMENT REGIMEN FOR A SUBJECT SUFFERING FROM A PATHOLOGIC DISORDER | November 2020 | September 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17100062 | REDUCTION OF BIAS IN GENOMIC COVERAGE MEASUREMENTS | November 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16952507 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENOMIC ANALYSIS | November 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17055392 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING ARTIFICIAL BASE SEQUENCE FOR BINDING TO POLYNUCLEIC ACID BIOMARKER, AND POLYNUCLEIC ACID PROBE USING SAME | November 2020 | December 2022 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17093580 | Method for determining different PBDEs derivatives from their response to activities of enoyl-ACP reductase | November 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17085210 | CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODEL OF STEM-CELL-DRIVEN GROWTH OF SPINAL CORD TISSUE | October 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 45 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17051795 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUBTYPING SUBJECTS BASED ON PHENOTYPIC INFORMATION | October 2020 | March 2024 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17051172 | Micro-fluidic Chip and Analytical Instrument Provided with the Micro-fluidic Chip | October 2020 | May 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17079337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH FEDERATED LEARNING MODEL FOR GEOTEMPORAL DATA ASSOCIATED MEDICAL PREDICTION APPLICATIONS | October 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17077294 | METHOD FOR CREATING A COHERENT VOTING NETWORK USEFUL IN PREDICTING A LIKELIHOOD OF LONG-TERM SURVIVAL OF BREAST CANCER IN A BREAST CANCER PATIENT | October 2020 | October 2023 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17073074 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION AND ERROR-CORRECTION OF UNIQUE MOLECULAR INDEX SETS WITH HETEROGENEOUS MOLECULAR LENGTHS | October 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17071014 | MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE, MASS SPECTROMETRY DEVICE, METHOD FOR ANALYZING DATA OBTAINED BY MASS SPECTROMETRY AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM | October 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17070452 | METHOD FOR GENOME SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT AND APPARATUS THEREOF | October 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17069301 | Method Of Evaluating The Effectiveness Of A Sterilization Process | October 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17065406 | METHODS FOR USING MOSAICISM IN NUCLEIC ACIDS SAMPLED DISTAL TO THEIR ORIGIN | October 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 15 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17063746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING ANTIMICROBIAL PHENOTYPES USING ACCESSORY GENOMES | October 2020 | May 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17039106 | NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION AND DETECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | September 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17035853 | PLANT AND ANIMAL HEALTH MONITORING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ITS METHOD | September 2020 | August 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17041536 | SEARCH TOOL FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY | September 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17025525 | BAMBAM: PARALLEL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING DATA | September 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17016585 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING NON-OBSERVED EFFECT CONCENTRATION (NOEC) OF CHEMICAL ON ORGANISM | September 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16978286 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A HUMAN OR ANIMAL SUBJECT | September 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16976828 | System And Method For Creating Synthetic And/Or Semi-Synthetic Database For Machine Learing Tasks | August 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17001804 | CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORK FOR ESTIMATING CONCENTRATION OF CHEMICAL SPECIES BASED ON AN IDENTIFIED PATTERN OF OUTPUT CHEMICAL SPECIES | August 2020 | May 2023 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 2 | Yes | No |
| 17001045 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LANGUAGE MODELING OF PROTEIN ENGINEERING | August 2020 | March 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16997517 | Determining the Clinical Significance of Variant Sequences | August 2020 | October 2023 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16970178 | PATIENT CLASSIFICATION AND PROGNOSTIC METHOD | August 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16992658 | REAL-TIME SERIES FORMULAS FOR ONE- AND TWO-COMPARTMENT PHARMACOKINETIC MODELS | August 2020 | August 2023 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16992113 | IMMUNOTHERAPY USING MULTI-OMICS DATA TO EXTRACT MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY-BASED NEOANTIGEN | August 2020 | August 2024 | Abandon | 48 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16987884 | Methods Of Treating Fabry Disease In Patients Having A Mutation In The GLA Gene | August 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16966733 | METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE DISTRIBUTION RATIO REPRESENTING CARRYING OUT A GIVEN PROCESS | July 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 48 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16945575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENE EDITING CASSETTE DESIGN | July 2020 | February 2023 | Abandon | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16937464 | SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING IN MULTIPLEXED BIOCHEMICAL ASSAYS | July 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16936885 | SIMULATION OF THE DEPLOYMENT OF AN ENDOPROSTHESIS IN REAL TIME | July 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16936382 | Method, Apparatus and System to Detect Indels and Tandem Duplications Using Single Cell DNA Sequencing | July 2020 | October 2023 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16934994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING STRUCTURAL VARIANTS | July 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16930588 | FACILITY AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING THE ORIGIN AND/OR QUALITY OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN SECTIONS | July 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 45 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16927533 | DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY DETERMINATIONS USING A QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEM | July 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16960830 | PEELING TYPE LASER TOOTH PREPARING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | July 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16921303 | DISTRIBUTED DATA ANALYTICS | July 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16920636 | TECHNIQUES FOR BIAS CORRECTION IN SEQUENCE DATA | July 2020 | April 2023 | Abandon | 33 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16919154 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PATIENT BASELINE ESTIMATION | July 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16912877 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING VEGF-RECEPTOR BLOCKING SELECTIVITY OF AN ANTI-VEGF ANTIBODY | June 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 49 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 16946534 | MEASURING AND REMOVING NOISE IN STOCHASTIC SIGNALS FROM A NANOPORE DNA SEQUENCING SYSTEM DRIVEN BY AN ALTERNATING SIGNAL | June 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16906441 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING DENSITY OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE VARIATIONS FOR THE VERIFICATION OF COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS IN HUMAN EMBRYOS | June 2020 | November 2023 | Abandon | 41 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 16903324 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENE EDITING CASSETTE DESIGN | June 2020 | February 2024 | Abandon | 44 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16772739 | DETECTION OF DELETIONS AND COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS IN DNA SEQUENCES | June 2020 | December 2023 | Abandon | 42 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16893213 | Biological Deposit Labeling And Tracking Including Isotope, Rare Earth Metal Or Mitochondria Tags | June 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16769859 | A PRIMER FOR NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCER AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, A DNA LIBRARY OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF A PRIMER FOR NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCER AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND A DNA ANALYZING METHOD USING A DNA LIBRARY | June 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16888922 | NOVEL MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF GENOMIC FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH EPIGENETIC CONTROL REGIONS AND TRANSGENERATIONAL INHERITANCE OF EPIMUTATIONS | June 2020 | June 2024 | Abandon | 48 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16767967 | METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DISSOCIATION MELT CURVE DATA | May 2020 | December 2023 | Abandon | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16883833 | GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING FROM FFPE SAMPLES | May 2020 | July 2023 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16877729 | BIOLOGICS ENGINEERING VIA APTAMOMIMETIC DISCOVERY | May 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15931009 | GLOBAL ANCESTRY DETERMINATION SYSTEM | May 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15930234 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-LABEL CANCER CLASSIFICATION | May 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 27 | 4 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 15929565 | MODELS FOR ANALYZING DATA FROM SEQUENCING-BY-SYNTHESIS OPERATIONS | May 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15929553 | CANCER DIAGNOSTIC TOOL USING CANCER GENOMIC SIGNATURES TO DETERMINE CANCER TYPE | May 2020 | February 2024 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16867751 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING LIKELIHOOD OF DISEASE TRANSMISSION | May 2020 | January 2023 | Abandon | 33 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16866922 | PERSONALIZED COSMETIC SYSTEM | May 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16866221 | ENGINEERED MICROPARTICLES FOR MACROMOLECULE DELIVERY | May 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16864744 | SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING IN MULTIPLEXED BIOCHEMICAL ASSAYS | May 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16861058 | METHODS RELATED TO A STRUCTURE OF HIGH-AFFINITY HUMAN PD-1/PD-L2 COMPLEX | April 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16857765 | CHEMICAL BINDING SIMILARITY SEARCHING METHOD USING EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION OF PROTEIN | April 2020 | March 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16856946 | AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF KNOWN PATTERNS IN PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT DATA | April 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 48 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16854378 | Methods and Systems for Use in Cancer Prediction | April 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 47 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16851949 | STATISTICAL AI FOR ADVANCED DEEP LEARNING AND PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMING IN THE BIOSCIENCES | April 2020 | August 2024 | Abandon | 52 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16851578 | PERSONALIZED MEDICAL MONITORING AND NOTIFICATIONS THEREFOR | April 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 1 | Yes | Yes |
| 16846346 | Method and apparatus for facilitating the binding of biological macromolecules with the use of gluing molecular agents with applications in RAS mutations and related conditions | April 2020 | December 2022 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16754727 | Comprehensive Genomic Transcriptomic Tumor-Normal Gene Panel Analysis For Enhanced Precision In Patients With Cancer | April 2020 | October 2023 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16754662 | METHODS OF ASSESSING RISK OF DEVELOPING BREAST CANCER | April 2020 | October 2023 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16838832 | QUANTITATIVE SCORE OF HLA DIVERSITY | April 2020 | February 2024 | Allow | 47 | 4 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16831747 | SCAFFOLD-ORIENTED UNIVERSAL LINE SYSTEM | March 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16826042 | Systems and Methods for Deriving and Optimizing Classifiers from Multiple Datasets | March 2020 | February 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16649228 | CONTROL PROCESSES FOR MICROORGANISM-RELATED CHARACTERIZATION PROCESSES | March 2020 | November 2023 | Abandon | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16822010 | REFERENCE-GUIDED GENOME SEQUENCING | March 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 43 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16821607 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CRISPR SELECTION | March 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16821849 | REFERENCE-GUIDED GENOME SEQUENCING | March 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16819972 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING THE RISK OF TRANSGENE SILENCING | March 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 49 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16816306 | METHOD TO DISTINGUISH PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA FULL AGONIST, PARTIAL AGONIST AND ANTAGONIST WITH DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND IDENTIFICATION THEREOF | March 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16816990 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MICROBIOME CHARACTERIZATION, MONITORING AND TREATMENT | March 2020 | November 2023 | Abandon | 44 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16813100 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING DISORDERS RELATED TO A GUT DYSBIOSIS | March 2020 | January 2024 | Abandon | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16645746 | COPY NUMBER MEASUREMENT DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, COPY NUMBER MEASUREMENT METHOD AND GENE PANEL | March 2020 | February 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16813136 | NMR Quantification of TMAO | March 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16805783 | Method of finding structural variants for identifying and differentiating species, strains and cells in normal and pathological conditions | March 2020 | December 2023 | Abandon | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16805510 | BLOOD GLUCOSE ESTIMATOR | February 2020 | June 2024 | Abandon | 52 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16643511 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS OF RNA TRANSCRIPTOME FOR DRUG DISCOVERY | February 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16803122 | RNA-SEQ QUANTIFICATION METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL ABERRATIONS | February 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 50 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16801588 | Quantum Mechanical/X-ray Crystallography Diagnostic for Proteins | February 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16796748 | METHODS FOR AMPLIFICATION OF CELL-FREE DNA USING LIGATED ADAPTORS AND UNIVERSAL AND INNER TARGET-SPECIFIC PRIMERS FOR MULTIPLEXED NESTED PCR | February 2020 | January 2021 | Abandon | 11 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16790519 | SEQUENCE ASSEMBLY | February 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16790509 | DESIGN OF DIGITAL PCR FOR NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL TESTING | February 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 42 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 1672.
With a 29.6% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.
Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.
In this dataset, 36.6% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting reconsideration.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Art Unit 1672 is part of Group 1670 in Technology Center 1600. This art unit has examined 4,197 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 78.5%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 23 months.
Art Unit 1672's allowance rate of 78.5% places it in the 56% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has an above-average allowance rate compared to other art units.
Applications in Art Unit 1672 receive an average of 1.49 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 20% percentile). The median prosecution time is 23 months (in the 84% percentile).
When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:
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