Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848521 | ANTIGEN AND KIT FOR DETECTION OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI ANTIBODY, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | September 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18887496 | APPLICATION OF HIGH MANNOSE GLYCAN BINDING PROTEINS AND COMPLEX GLYCAN BINDING PROTEINS | September 2024 | June 2025 | Abandon | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18882795 | RAPID DETECTION METHOD FOR ABRIN TOXIN | September 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 7 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18829320 | PROTEIN SCAFFOLD CAPABLE OF CARRYING RADIOACTIVE SIGNALS AND APPLICATION IN ANTIBODY DETECTION | September 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18678144 | METHODS FOR MEASURING AN AMOUNT OF AN ANALYTE IN A COMPLEX SAMPLE | May 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18650778 | EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE DERIVED MASP-2 DIRECTED CANCER TREATMENT METHODS | April 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18648147 | COMPOSITIONS FOR IMMUNOLABELING | April 2024 | June 2025 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18579324 | ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING ASSAYS | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18404228 | ASSAY FOR RAPID DETECTION OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAKS | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18513651 | SANDWICH IMMUNOASSAY DEVICES USING ANTIBODIES SPECIFIC TO THE EXOSOMES CONTAINING TARGET ANALYTES | November 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18560402 | SANDWICH IMMUNOASSAY DEVICES USING ANTIBODIES SPECIFIC TO THE EXOSOMES CONTAINING TARGET ANALYTES | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18455397 | DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY METHODS USING ASSAY DEVICE HAVING MICROREACTOR | August 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18447974 | BIOSENSOR SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED MICRONEEDLE | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18341373 | Spatially Encoded Biological Systems | June 2023 | August 2024 | Abandon | 13 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18339145 | ASSAYS FOR TIMP2 HAVING IMPROVED PERFORMANCE IN BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18333596 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PATHOGEN DETECTION | June 2023 | April 2025 | Abandon | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18330459 | CHEMIGENETIC CALCIUM INDICATORS | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18323723 | DIAGNOSTIC CARTRIDGE FOR IMMUNODIAGNOSIS AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME | May 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18319157 | METHODS AND RELATED ASPECTS FOR DETECTING UNLABELED BIOMOLECULES | May 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18034448 | MODIFIED ELISA WITH HEMOGLOBIN CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHODS THEREOF | April 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18299437 | METHOD OF TARGET MOLECULE CHARACTERISATION USING A MOLECULAR PORE | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18027624 | KIT FOR DETECTING DUST MITE COMPONENT-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES | March 2023 | January 2025 | Abandon | 22 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18027240 | KIT FOR QUANTITATIVE DETECTION USING FLUORESCENT MICROARRAY | March 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 26 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18120329 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR INTEGRATING ANALYTE EXTRACTION, CONCENTRATION AND DETECTION | March 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176144 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF URINALYSIS FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING OF ORGAN HEALTH | February 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18114022 | Micro-Fluidic Device for Selective Sorting of Highly Motile and Morphologically Normal Sperm From Unprocessed Semen | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18113108 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MEASURING CONCENTRATION OF ANALYTE IN BODILY FLUID SAMPLE | February 2023 | March 2026 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166971 | REAL TIME WESTERN BLOT ASSAYS UTILIZING FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET) | February 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18101513 | THERMALLY CONTROLLED REAGENT RELEASE | January 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18099226 | DETECTION OF SARS-COV-2 PROTEINS AND MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS IN PLASMA NEURON-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND ASTROCYTE-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | January 2023 | July 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17918449 | PROTEIN DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKER FOR SEVERE CUTANEOUS DRUG ADVERSE REACTIONS | January 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18151345 | SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION | January 2023 | March 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18088996 | Method and System for Exposing Hidden or Masked Antigenic Sites of Viral Specimens Present in Biosamples Using a Home-Based COVID-19 Rapid Lateral Flow Immunoassay Test | December 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 2 | Yes | No |
| 17780821 | PREPARATION METHOD AND THE APPLICATION OF CAPTURE MAGNETIC BEAD TARGETING WEAK PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS BASED ON THE PHOTO-AFFINITY COVALENT LINKAGE STRATEGY | December 2022 | May 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18088299 | HIGH SENSITIVITY ANALYTE NETWORK DETECTION FLOW ASSAYS AND RELATED METHODS | December 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18000944 | ANALYTICAL ASSAY REACTION CARTRIDGE CONTAINING MAGNETIC CAPTURE BEADS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | December 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18074305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILIZING COMBINED MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES AND NANOBODIES | December 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 34 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17928581 | A method and device for automated and point-of-care nucleic acid amplification test | November 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17999728 | BIOLOGICAL AND/OR BIOCHEMICAL AND/OR CHEMICAL SENSOR | November 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17999665 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF AN ANALYTE IN THE PLASMA FRACTION OF A SAMPLE OF WHOLE BLOOD | November 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 36 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18057629 | Probe and Method for Detecting Membrane-Associated Molecules in Living Cells | November 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17987181 | IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC DETECTION DEVICE | November 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18055690 | MICROBEADS AND USES THEREOF | November 2022 | February 2026 | Abandon | 39 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17924823 | Terpolymer and polymer brushes for use against non-specific adsorption of substances from biological media | November 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17981658 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAGNETIC MULTI-BEAD ASSAYS | November 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17974743 | THERMALLY CONTROLLED REAGENT RELEASE | October 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18046911 | Mask-Based Diagnostic System using Exhaled Breath Condensate | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17965495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING AND ANALYZING CELLS | October 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17958265 | COLOR READING FOR DIAGNOSTIC TESTS | September 2022 | January 2026 | Abandon | 40 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17777056 | IMMUNOADSORBENT AND COMPOSITE AFFINITY COLUMN FOR PURIFYING FUMONISINS B1, ANGUIDIN, T-2 TOXIN, ZEARALENONE AND VOMITOXIN. | September 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935294 | Methods and Compositions for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Renal Injury and Renal Failure | September 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17951170 | IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC KIT AND IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC METHOD | September 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17950632 | Inspection Method Enabling Specific Diagnosis of Pathological State of Diabetic Nephropathy at Early Stage | September 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17949157 | MEMBRANE BASED CHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY ASSAY AND ITS USE | September 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17802661 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLEXED ANALYSIS | August 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17894962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PRESENCE OF A TARGET BIOPARTICLE IN A SAMPLE VIA A VERTICAL FLOW ASSAY | August 2022 | October 2023 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17894970 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PRESENCE OF A TARGET BIOPARTICLE IN A SAMPLE VIA A VERTICAL FLOW ASSAY | August 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17892388 | MULTIPLANAR PLANAR ELECTROMAGNETIC ARRAY | August 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17893159 | Two-Dimensional Multiplex Chromatography Test Card | August 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17904601 | AUTOMATIC TEST CARD FOR MULTI-BLOOD GROUP SYSTEM AND TEST METHOD | August 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17886405 | HIGH SENSITIVITY ANALYTE NETWORK DETECTION FLOW ASSAYS AND RELATED METHODS | August 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 3 | 1 | No | No |
| 17798562 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES | August 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17884792 | TIME-RESOLVED IMMUNOQUANTITATION TEST STRIP FOR DETECTING TETRODOTOXIN IN SHELLFISH FOOD | August 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 1 | No | No |
| 17760441 | BIOMATERIALS | August 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17882671 | COMPOSITIONS, KITS, AND METHODS FOR DETECTING PRECLINICAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | August 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 39 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17882340 | LATERAL FLOW ASSAY DEVICE | August 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17877679 | DETECTION OF ANALYTE | July 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17796023 | METHODS OF SEPARATING HOST CELL LIPASES FROM AN ANTI-LAG3 ANTIBODY PRODUCTION | July 2022 | February 2026 | Abandon | 43 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17796239 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2 | July 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 44 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17869160 | SAMPLE CLARIFICATION AND REDUCTION OF BACKGROUND FLUORESCENCE FOR FLUORESCENT DETECTION OF ANALYTES | July 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17813204 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING HOOK EFFECT INTEFERENCE IN IMMUNOASSAYS | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17791563 | DIAGNOSIS OF AN AORTIC DISSECTION BY DETECTING A SPECIFIC BIOMARKER IN A BLOOD SAMPLE | July 2022 | February 2026 | Abandon | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17858582 | BIO-CHIP, BIO-DETECTION SYSTEM AND BIO-DETECTION METHOD | July 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 40 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17758361 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR IDENTIFYING AND TREATING MEMBRANOUS NEPHROPATHY BASED ON ELEVATED SEMAPHORIN 3B | July 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17855993 | KIT FOR DETECTING ANTI-VINCULIN-IMMUNOGLOBULIN G (IgG) ANTIBODY | July 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17604010 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING BIO-SUBSTANCE | June 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17849248 | METHOD OF ASSISTING DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER | June 2022 | February 2026 | Abandon | 43 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17789001 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TEST STRIP FOR MULTIPLEX IMMUNOASSAY ANALYSIS, AND TEST STRIP MANUFACTURED USING SAME | June 2022 | February 2026 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17786245 | SELECTIVE WHITE BLOOD CELL LYSIS FOR IMMUNOASSAY SYSTEMS | June 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17803387 | OPTICAL BIOMODULE FOR DETECTION OF DISEASES AT AN EARLY ONSET | June 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17837480 | BLOOD READER SYSTEMS AND THERANOSTICS FOR BRAIN DAMAGE AND INJURY | June 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17835238 | ASSAY FOR RAPID DETECTION OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAKS | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17827499 | REAGENT FOR DETECTING TARGET SUBSTANCE CONTAINING SUGAR CHAIN, DETECTION METHOD, CARRIER USED IN DETECTION OF TARGET SUBSTANCE CONTAINING SUGAR CHAIN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAID CARRIER | May 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 46 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17825697 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY COMPOUNDS USEFUL TO TREAT DYSREGULATED LIPOGENESIS, DIABETES, AND RELATED DISORDERS | May 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17780508 | PROSTATE CANCER BIOMARKERS | May 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 43 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17779869 | NOVEL LINKER COMPOUNDS | May 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17824867 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF IMMUNE INHIBITORS FROM BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS | May 2022 | June 2023 | Abandon | 12 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17778647 | REAGENT FOR MEASURING 25-HYDROXY VITAMIN D AND METHOD FOR MEASURING 25-HYDROXY VITAMIN D | May 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17747854 | SANDWICH IMMUNOASSAY DEVICES USING ANTIBODIES SPECIFIC TO THE EXOSOMES CONTAINING TARGET ANALYTES | May 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17746055 | POC TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD | May 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17777268 | TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE KIT FOR SYNCHRONOUSLY DETECTING 4,15-DIACETOXYSCIRPENOL, DEOXYNIVALENOL, AND T-2 TOXIN | May 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17744555 | DETECTION DEVICE, SAMPLE SOLUTION LOADING DEVICE, TEST STRIP LOADING BOARD AND TEST STRIP | May 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17776920 | MAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE GLYCANS | May 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 39 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17776182 | IGA ANTIBODIES AND KITS CAPABLE OF SPECIFICALLY RECOGNIZING RBD PROTEIN | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17740008 | Systems and Methods for Rapid Measurement of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Magnetic Biosensors | May 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17737341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF IMMUNE INHIBITORS FROM BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS | May 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17774395 | METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING HUMAN T-CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS TYPE 1 (HTLV-1)-RELATED DISEASE | May 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17735253 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CANCER | May 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717764 | CANCER TEST METHOD | April 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17768211 | NANOCLUSTER-ANTIBODY CONJUGATES AND USES THEREOF | April 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 40 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 1677.
With a 18.4% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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, 15.7% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Art Unit 1677 is part of Group 1670 in Technology Center 1600. This art unit has examined 2,915 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 63.0%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 42 months.
Art Unit 1677's allowance rate of 63.0% places it in the 18% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has a significantly lower allowance rate than most art units at the USPTO.
Applications in Art Unit 1677 receive an average of 2.16 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 71% percentile). The median prosecution time is 42 months (in the 9% percentile).
When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:
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