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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Taft Law

48 pending office actions • 4 clients

Portfolio Summary

48
Total Pending OAs
12
Final Rejections
36
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. 45
Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 1
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. 1
Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18726309 METHOD FOR OPERATING LABORATORY SYSTEM AND LABORATORY SYSTEM Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL 3681 Non-Final OA Jul 02, 2024
18755464 DETECTION OF AIR BUBBLES IN OPTICAL DETECTION UNIT Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. BENNETT, JENNIFER D 2878 Non-Final OA Jun 26, 2024
18667208 OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR FOURIER PTYCHOGRAPHY Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. HUANG, WEN 2872 Non-Final OA May 17, 2024
18656996 LABORATORY SAMPLE CONTAINER CARRIER HANDLING APPARATUS, LABORATORY AUTOMATION SYSTEM, AND USE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 1798 Final Rejection May 07, 2024
18649151 TRANSPORT DEVICE AND LABORATORY SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. JORGENSEN, ABBY A 3651 Final Rejection Apr 29, 2024
18566548 AN ANALYZER SYSTEM Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. LI, LARRY 2881 Non-Final OA Dec 01, 2023
18561621 sFRP4 AS BLOOD BIOMARKER FOR THE NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF ADENOMYOSIS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. COUNTS, GARY W 1678 Non-Final OA Nov 16, 2023
18560126 METHOD FOR OPERATING A LABORATORY AUTOMATION SYSTEM, LABORATORY AUTOMATION SYSTEM, AND LABORATORY IN-VITRO DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL 3655 Non-Final OA Nov 10, 2023
18506002 TRANSGLUTAMINASE SUBSTRATES FOR LABELING Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. CHESTNUT, BARRY A 1672 Non-Final OA Nov 09, 2023
18558133 IL6 MARKER PANELS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SEPSIS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1657 Non-Final OA Oct 30, 2023
18558150 ESM1 MARKER PANELS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SEPSIS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1657 Non-Final OA Oct 30, 2023
18557890 PRESEPSIN MARKER PANELS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SEPSIS Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. LANKFORD JR, LEON B 1657 Non-Final OA Oct 27, 2023
18556849 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR PROVIDING REFERENCE INFORMATION RELATING TO DIAGNOSIS OF THYROID DISEASE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 3684 Non-Final OA Oct 23, 2023
18478291 PSP94 AS BLOOD BIOMARKER FOR THE NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL 1798 Non-Final OA Sep 29, 2023
18352183 PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF BIOMARKERS IN PATIENTS WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER HAVING STABLE DISEASE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. SINES, BRIAN J 1796 Non-Final OA Jul 13, 2023
18339760 AUTOMATED CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. WALLENHORST, MAUREEN 1797 Non-Final OA Jun 22, 2023
18337018 LC-MS METHOD FOR DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING 11-OXYGENATED STEROIDS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. SODERQUIST, ARLEN 1797 Non-Final OA Jun 18, 2023
18328104 DETECTION OF AN ANALYTE OF INTEREST BY CROSS SPRAY ESI MASS SPECTROMETRY Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 Final Rejection Jun 02, 2023
18312442 DERIVATIZATION OF AT LEAST ONE ANALYTE OF INTEREST FOR MASS SPEC MEASUREMENTS IN PATIENT SAMPLES Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. XU, XIAOYUN 1797 Non-Final OA May 04, 2023
18309985 TIMP1 AS A MARKER FOR CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. DENT, ALANA HARRIS 1643 Non-Final OA May 01, 2023
18306195 DETECTION OF AN ANALYTE OF INTEREST BY NANOESI MASS SPECTROMETRY Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 1758 Final Rejection Apr 24, 2023
18299750 GRIPPING APPARATUS FOR GRIPPING SAMPLE CONTAINER Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 3731 Non-Final OA Apr 13, 2023
18028235 CIRCULATING TOTAL-NT-PROBNP (GLYCOSYLATED AND UNGLYCOSYLATED NT-PROBNP) AND ITS RATIO WITH NT-PROBNP (UNGLYCOSYLATED NT-PROBNP) IN THE ASSESSMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 1758 Non-Final OA Mar 24, 2023
18028245 BACTERIAL PILUS PROTEIN COMPLEX FIMGT-DSF STABILIZED PROTEIN COMPLEXES FOR PRODUCING FILAMENTOUS PHAGES Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. ZOU, NIANXIANG 1671 Non-Final OA Mar 24, 2023
18125708 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF VITAMIN D AND METABOLITES THEREOF Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 1758 Non-Final OA Mar 23, 2023
18171469 METHOD FOR SENSOR CALIBRATION Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE 1797 Non-Final OA Feb 20, 2023
18021047 ESM-1 FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SILENT BRAIN INFARCTS AND COGNITIVE DECLINE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M 1758 Non-Final OA Feb 13, 2023
18021085 IGFBP7 FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SILENT BRAIN INFARCTS AND COGNITIVE DECLINE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. WEIDNER, ADAM M 1675 Non-Final OA Feb 13, 2023
18021021 MULTIMARKER PANEL FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SILENT BRAIN INFARCTS AND COGNITIVE DECLINE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. SAOUD, CHRISTINE J 1645 Non-Final OA Feb 13, 2023
17916251 A METHOD OF ASSESSING A FEMALE'S RISK OF HAVING PCOS AS WELL AS PRODUCTS AND USES RELATING THERETO Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. VOLKOV, ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVIC 1677 Non-Final OA Sep 30, 2022
17907039 CORONA NUCLEOCAPSID ANTIGEN FOR USE IN ANTIBODY-IMMUNOASSAYS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1644 Non-Final OA Sep 22, 2022
17931993 CARRY-OVER MONITORING Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM 1685 Non-Final OA Sep 14, 2022
17821951 TnT BASED DIAGNOSIS OF PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. COUNTS, GARY W 1678 Final Rejection Aug 24, 2022
17891458 IDENTIFICATION OF PATIENTS WITH ABNORMAL FRACTIONAL SHORTENING Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1677 Non-Final OA Aug 19, 2022
17838568 PARTICLE-BASED IMMUNOASSAY USING A PEGYLATED ANALYTE-SPECIFIC BINDING AGENT Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 Non-Final OA Jun 13, 2022
17772959 SEPSIS MANAGEMENT Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. COUNTS, GARY W 1678 Non-Final OA Apr 28, 2022
17575120 S100A9 AS BLOOD BIOMARKER FOR THE NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. IVICH, FERNANDO NMN 1678 Final Rejection Jan 13, 2022
17575202 S100A12 AS BLOOD BIOMARKER FOR THE NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. MONTGOMERY, ANN Y 1678 Non-Final OA Jan 13, 2022
17575137 SUBSTANCE P AS BLOOD BIOMARKER FOR THE NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF ENDOMETRIOSIS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. IVICH, FERNANDO NMN 1678 Final Rejection Jan 13, 2022
17643559 SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1687 Final Rejection Dec 09, 2021
17447844 METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE STATE OF AT LEAST ONE CAVITY OF A TRANSPORT INTERFACE CONFIGURED FOR TRANSPORTING SAMPLE TUBES Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. SKIBINSKY, ANNA 1635 Final Rejection Sep 16, 2021
17360121 DETECTION OF BACTERIAL (MOLLICUTIES) CONTAMINATION Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE 1681 Non-Final OA Jun 28, 2021
17350822 METHODS FOR DETECTING AN ANALYTE USING STRUCTURE SWITCHING BINDING AGENTS Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. LIRIANO, MELISSA LIZETTE 1677 Non-Final OA Jun 17, 2021
17186163 THYMIDINE KINASE (TK-1) IN PROGNOSTIC INDICES FOR DLBCL Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE 1687 Final Rejection Feb 26, 2021
17162140 Use of Biomarkers in the Assessment of the Early Transition from Arterial Hypertension to Heart Failure Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN 1677 Non-Final OA Jan 29, 2021
17126439 HYBRIDIZING ALL-LNA OLIGONUCLEOTIDES Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. ANGELL, JON E 1637 Final Rejection Dec 18, 2020
16008281 FKBP DOMAIN WITH TRANSGLUTAMINASE RECOGNITION SITE Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. DABKOWSKI, ERINNE R 1654 Non-Final OA Jun 14, 2018
15892829 ALKALINE PRETREATMENT OF PARVOVIRUSES FOR IMMUNOASSAYS Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 Final Rejection Feb 09, 2018

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