Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SODERQUIST, ARLEN

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 1677 1777 1797 1798 3774

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

59.2%
Allow Rate
-10.8% vs TC avg
936
Total Applications
+27.1%
Interview Lift
1215
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 903 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.7%
§101 Eligibility
5.3%
§102 Novelty
56.2%
§103 Obviousness
21.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18318323 APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH NEURAL SIGNAL MEASURING Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17857545 EUROPIUM DOPED METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK FOR DETECTION OF HETEROAROMATIC COMPOUNDS Non-Final OA KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
17992466 CARBON SEQUESTRATION EVALUATION Non-Final OA Saudi Arabian Oil Company
17728391 DESCENDING AND ASCENDING TEMPERATURE INDICATORS UTILIZING DEEP EUTECTICS Non-Final OA Zebra Technologies Corporation
18637591 Method for Determining Residual Carbamate Compounds on an Elastomeric Article Non-Final OA Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
17075538 BLOOD ANALYZER AND ANALYSIS METHOD Non-Final OA Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
17604314 BIOMARKER FOR TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE INDUCED BY APOPTOTIC DONOR LEUKOCYTES Final Rejection Regents of the University of Minnesota
18254636 INTEGRATED AUTOMATED ANALYZER AND METHODS OF ANALYZING WHOLE BLOOD AND PLASMA FROM A SINGLE SAMPLE TUBE Non-Final OA BECKMAN COULTER, INC.
18654218 AGRICULTURAL SAMPLING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS Non-Final OA Precision Planting LLC
18334781 Multiplexed DiLeu-Biotin-Azide (DBA) Tag Enabled Isobaric Tandem Orthogonal Proteolysis Activity-Based Protein Profiling (isoBOP-ABPP) Platform For High-Throughput Quantitative Pan-PTM Analysis Non-Final OA Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
17977976 METHODS FOR QUANTITATION OF INSULIN LEVELS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY Final Rejection QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS LLC
18337018 LC-MS METHOD FOR DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING 11-OXYGENATED STEROIDS Non-Final OA Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
17998207 DEVICE FOR CHEMILUMINESCENCE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Analytik Jena GmbH
18625514 CHEMILUMINESCENCE MICROFLUIDIC IMMUNOASSAY DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Final Rejection Zymo Research Corporation
17980807 POLYMER COLOR ANALYSIS BY TRANSMISSION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY USING HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX COMPOSITE LIQUIDS Non-Final OA Eastman Chemical Company
18443877 SENSOR DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING MARKERS IN BREATH Final Rejection BIOLUM SCIENCES, LLC
18039012 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR LOW SALINITY ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY Non-Final OA BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
18130789 BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING EFFICACY OF STERILIZATION Non-Final OA STERITEC PRODUCTS MFG. CO., INC.
17601435 MULTIPLEXED ARRAY OF NANOLITER DROPLET ARRAY DEVICE Non-Final OA Technion Research and Development Foundation, Ltd.
17636849 FURAN CONCENTRATION QUANTIFYING METHOD, TRANSFORMER DETERIORATION DIAGNOSIS METHOD USING SAME, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Non-Final OA KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION
17604461 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING GENERATION SOURCES OF FINE PARTICULATES IN ATMOSPHERE Non-Final OA Kazuichi HAYAKAWA
17356204 RAPID RESPONSE CURVES AND SURVEY MEASUREMENTS Non-Final OA LI-COR, Inc.

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