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| Class 436 | CHEMISTRY: ANALYTICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL TESTING |
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![[List of Pre Grant Publications for class 436 subclass 500]](../as.gif) | ![[List of Patents for class 436 subclass 500]](../ps.gif) | 500 | THYROID HORMONE TESTS (E.G., T3, T4, TBG, TSH, ETC.) |
| | 501 | BIOSPECIFIC LIGAND BINDING ASSAY |
| | 506 | FOR PREEXISTING IMMUNE COMPLEX OR AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE |
| | 510 | IMMUNOCHEMICAL PREGNANCY DETERMINATION |
| | 512 | INVOLVING ANTIBODY FRAGMENTS |
| | 513 | INVOLVING IGA, IGD, IGE, OR IGM |
| | 514 | INVOLVING DIFFUSION OR MIGRATION OF ANTIGEN OR ANTIBODY |
| | 517 | INVOLVING KINETIC MEASUREMENT OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTION |
| | 518 | INVOLVING AN INSOLUBLE CARRIER FOR IMMOBILIZING IMMUNOCHEMICALS |
| | 519 |  Carrier is a biological cell or cell fragment |
| | 523 | Carrier is particulate and the particles are of intentionally different sizes or impregnated differently with the immunochemicals |
| | 524 | Carrier is inorganic |
| | 528 | Carrier is organic |
| | 536 | INVOLVING IMMUNE COMPLEX FORMED IN LIQUID PHASE |
| | 537 | Signal modification or steric inhibition |
| | 538 | Separation of immune complex from unbound antigen or antibody |
| | 543 | INVOLVING PRODUCING OR TREATING ANTIGEN OR HAPTEN |
| | 547 | INVOLVING PRODUCTION OR TREATMENT OF ANTIBODY |
| | 1 | PROCESS OR COMPOSITION FOR STERILITY OR PACKAGE INTEGRITY TEST |
| | 2 | PROCESS OR COMPOSITION FOR DETERMINATION OF PHYSICAL STATE OR PROPERTY BY MEANS INCLUDING A CHEMICAL REACTION |
| | 3 | Leak detection |
| | 4 | Of crystal or crystalline material |
| | 5 | Surface area, porosity, imperfection, or alteration |
| | 6 | Corrosion resistance or power |
| | 7 | By thermoparticulating composition |
| | 8 | COMPOSITION FOR STANDARDIZATION, CALIBRATION, SIMULATION, STABILIZATION, PREPARATION OR PRESERVATION; PROCESSES OF USE IN PREPARATION FOR CHEMICAL TESTING |
| | 9 | Simulative of a gaseous composition |
| | 10 | Particle count or volume standard or control (e.g., platelet count standards, etc.) |
| | 11 | Blood gas standard or control |
| | 12 | Bilirubin or uric acid standard or control |
| | 13 | Lipid, cholesterol, or triglyceride standard or control |
| | 14 | Glucose, ketone, nitrate standard or control |
| | 15 | Protein or peptide standard or control (e.g., hemoglobin, etc.) |
| | 16 | Blood serum or blood plasma standard or control |
| | 17 | Preparation composition (e.g., lysing or precipitation, etc.) |
| | 18 | Preservative, buffer, anticoagulant or diluent |
| | 19 | Inorganic standards or controls |
| | 20 | FOOD OR DAIRY PRODUCTS |
| | 25 | GEOCHEMICAL, GEOLOGICAL, OR GEOTHERMAL EXPLORATION |
| | 26 | For metallic ores |
| | 27 | Using chemical tracers |
| | 28 | In situ testing |
| | 29 | For petroleum oils or carbonaceous minerals |
| | 34 | RATE OF REACTION DETERMINATION |
| | 35 | USING ACTIVATED SPECIE |
| | 36 | WITH USE OF CONDENSATION NUCLEI |
| | 37 | TESTING OF CATALYST |
| | 38 | PURITY OF STEAM OR CHEMICALLY INERT GAS |
| | 39 | DETERMINATION OF WATER |
| | 40 | In petroleum oil, hydrocarbon oil or organic fluid |
| | 41 | By use of a cobalt, copper or nickel containing reagent |
| | 42 | By use of a Karl Fischer reagent |
| | 43 | AUTOMATED CHEMICAL ANALYSIS |
| | 44 | Utilizing a moving indicator strip or tape |
| | 45 | Utilizing a centrifuge or compartmented rotor |
| | 46 | With sample on test slide |
| | 47 | With conveyance of sample along a test line in a container or rack |
| | 48 |  With step of insertion or removal from test line |
| | 49 | With treatment or replacement of aspirator element (e.g., cleaning, etc.) |
| | 50 | Condition or time responsive |
| | 52 | With a continuously flowing sample or carrier stream |
| | 54 | With aspirator of claimed structure |
| | 55 | CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL |
| | 56 | TRACERS OR TAGS |
| | 57 | INCLUDING USE OF RADIOACTIVE PROPERTIES |
| | 58 | Dosage determination of high energy radiation, (e.g., use of an X-ray dosimeter, etc.) |
| | 59 | Including pyrolysis of radioactive material |
| | 60 | LUBRICANT, GREASE, MINERAL OIL, HYDROCARBON OIL PRODUCT, OR FATS OR LIPIDS FOR OXIDATION (E.G., BREAKDOWN PRODUCTS OR CONTAMINATION, ETC.) |
| | 62 | OXYGEN DEMAND (E.G., BOD, TOD, COD, ETC.) |
| | 63 | BIOLOGICAL CELLULAR MATERIAL TESTED |
| | 64 | CANCER |
| | 65 | PREGNANCY OR OVULATION |
| | 66 | HEMOGLOBIN, MYOGLOBIN, OR OCCULT BLOOD |
| | 68 | BLOOD GAS (E.G., OXYGEN, CARBON DIOXIDE, BLOOD, PH, ETC.) |
| | 69 | CLOTTING OR CLOTTING FACTOR LEVEL TESTS |
| | 70 | SEDIMENTATION RATE OR HEMATOCRIT |
| | 71 | LIPIDS, TRIGLYCERIDES, CHOLESTEROL, OR LIPOPROTEINS |
| | 72 | SILICON CONTAINING |
| | 73 | METAL OR METAL CONTAINING |
| | 74 | Present in biological fluids (e.g., blood, urine, etc.) |
| | 75 | Oxide or gas content of metal (e.g., determination of dissolved gases, etc.) |
| | 76 | Organometallic compound determined |
| | 78 | Presence of a component of steel |
| | 79 | Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra |
| | 80 | Cu, Ag, Au |
| | 81 | Zn, Cd, Hg, Sc, Y, or Actinides, or Lanthanides |
| | 83 | Ti, Zr, Hf, Va, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W |
| | 84 | Mn, Te, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt |
| | 85 | SYNTHETIC OR NATURAL RESIN |
| | 86 | PEPTIDE, PROTEIN OR AMINO ACID |
| | 91 | HETEROCYCLIC CARBON COMPOUND (I.E., O, S, N, SE, TE, AS ONLY RING HETERO ATOM) |
| | 92 | Diverse hetero atoms in same or different rings (e.g., alkaloids, opiates, etc.) |
| | 93 | Hetero-O (e.g., ascorbic acid, etc.) |
| | 96 | Hetero-N |
| | 100 | INORGANIC ACID OR BASE (E.G., HCL, SULFURIC ACID, ETC.) |
| | 103 | PHOSPHORUS CONTAINING |
| | 104 | Organic (e.g., chemical warfare agents, insecticides, etc.) |
| | 105 | Of inorganic phosphorus compound in body fluid |
| | 106 | NITROGEN CONTAINING |
| | 107 | N-Nitroso containing (e.g., nitrosamine, etc.) |
| | 108 | Urea or blood urea nitrogen |
| | 109 | Cyanide or isocyanide |
| | 110 | Nitrite or nitrate |
| | 111 | Amine and quaternary ammonium |
| | 114 | Total nitrogen determined |
| | 116 | Oxides of nitrogen |
| | 119 | SULFUR CONTAINING |
| | 120 | Organic or sulfhydryl containing (e.g., mercaptan, hydrogen, sulfide, etc.) |
| | 122 | Sulfur dioxide |
| | 123 | Total or elemental sulfur |
| | 124 | HALOGEN CONTAINING |
| | 127 | OXYGEN CONTAINING |
| | 128 | Carbonyl, ether, aldehyde or ketone containing |
| | 131 | Hydroxyl containing |
| | 133 | Inorganic carbon compounds |
| | 135 | Ozone or peroxide |
| | 136 | Molecular oxygen |
| | 139 | HYDROCARBON |
| | 140 | Aromatic |
| | 141 | Acyclic (e.g., methane, octane, isoparaffin, etc.) |
| | 143 | Total hydrocarbon, flammability, combustibility (e.g., air-fuel mixture, etc.) |
| | 144 | HYDROGEN, PER SE |
| | 145 | CARBON CONTAINING |
| | 147 | MEASUREMENT INCLUDES TEMPERATURE CHANGE OF THE MATERIAL BEING ANALYZED (E.G., CALORIMETRY, ETC.) |
| | 148 | MEASUREMENT INCLUDES CHANGE IN VOLUME OR PRESSURE |
| | 149 | MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRICAL OR MAGNETIC PROPERTY OR THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY |
| | 155 | PYROLYSIS, COMBUSTION, OR ELEVATED TEMPERATURE CONVERSION |
| | 156 | Explosibility |
| | 157 | Multiple stages of heating or heating at multiple temperatures or application of temperature gradient |
| | 158 | Dividing or separating a sample stream |
| | 159 | With catalyst or accelerator |
| | 160 | Combustion with oxygen containing gas |
| | 161 | INCLUDING CHROMATOGRAPHY |
| | 163 | INCLUDING TITRATION OR PH DETERMINATION |
| | 164 | OPTICAL RESULT |
| | 165 | With claimed manipulation of container to effect reaction or use of container of claimed optical structure |
| | 166 | Including reagent preparation |
| | 167 | Including gas absorption in liquid or solid |
| | 169 | With reagent in absorbent or bibulous substrate |
| | 171 | Spectrum analysis (e.g., flame photometry, etc.) |
| | 172 | With fluorescence or luminescence |
| | 173 | NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE OR OTHER SPIN EFFECTS OR MASS SPECTROMETRY |
| | 174 | INCLUDING SAMPLE PREPARATION |
| | 175 | Digestion or removing interfering materials |
| | 176 | Stabilizing or preserving |
| | 177 | Liberation or purification of sample or separation of material from a sample (e.g., filtering, centrifuging, etc.) |
| | 179 | Dilution |
| | 180 | Volumetric liquid transfer |
| | 181 | Gaseous sample or with change of physical state |
| | 182 | ELEMENT OR INORGANIC COMPOUND |
| | 183 | MISCELLANEOUS |
| CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS 800 THROUGH 829 RELATE TO ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY OR BINDING PROTEIN TESTS. |
| | 800 | FLUORESCENT DYES (E.G., RHODAMINE, ETC.) |
| | 801 | ELECTRON DENSE COMPOUNDS (E.G., FERRITIN, ETC.) |
| | 802 | PROTEIN-BACTERIOPHAGE CONJUGATES |
| | 803 | STABE FREE RADICALS (E.G., SPIN IMMUNOASSAY, ETC.) |
| | 804 | RADIOISOTOPE (E.G., RADIOIMMUNOASSAY, ETC.) |
| | 805 | OPTICAL PROPERTY |
| | 806 | ELECTRICAL PROPERTY OR MAGNETIC PROPERTY |
| | 807 | APPARATUS INCLUDED IN PROCESS CLAIM (E.G., PHYSICAL SUPPORT STRUCTURES, ETC.) |
| | 811 | TEST FOR NAMED DISEASE, BODY CONDITION OR ORGAN FUNCTION |
| | 815 | TEST FOR NAMED COMPOUND OR CLASS OF COMPOUNDS |
| | 819 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL ANTIGEN OR ANTIBODY |
| | 820 | HEPATITIS ASSOCIATED ANTIGENS AND ANTIBODIES |
| | 821 | INVOLVING COMPLEMENT FACTORS OR COMPLEMENT SYSTEMS |
| | 822 | IDENTIFIED HAPTEN |
| | 823 | IMMUNOGENIC CARRIER OR CARRIER PER SE |
| | 824 | IMMUNOLOGICAL SEPARATION TECHNIQUES |
| | 825 | PRETREATMENT FOR REMOVAL OF INTERFERING FACTORS FROM SAMPLE |
| | 826 | ADDITIVES (E.G., BUFFERS, DILUENTS, PRESERVATIVES) |
| | 827 | LECTINS |
| | 828 | PROTEIN A |
| | 829 | LIPOSOMES (E.G., ENCAPSULATION, ETC.) |
| CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS 900 THROUGH 910 RELATE TO CHEMICAL ANALYSIS |
| RELATED TO CHEMICAL TESTING |
| | 900 | BREATH TESTING |
| | 901 | DRUGS OF ABUSE (E.G., NARCOTICS, AMPHETAMINE, ETC.) |
| | 902 | DOSIMETER |
| | 903 | DIAZO REACTIONS |
| | 904 | OXIDATION - REDUCTION INDICATORS |
| | 905 | PHOTOCHEMICAL ACTIVATION OF REACTIONS |
| | 906 | FERTILITY TESTS |
| | 907 | FETAL LUNG MATURITY |
| | 908 | GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS |
| | 909 | NEPHELOMETRY |
| | 910 | IRON-BINDING CAPACITY OF BLOOD |
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