Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days
HRL Laboratories LLC has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, indicating wide distribution across examination groups, with one examiner or art-unit relationship supporting more than one pending matter. The portfolio benefits from centralized tracking of technical disclosures and claim themes.
FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. This is the largest identified examiner-specific assignment, but most of the portfolio remains distributed across other examination relationships. Counsel should prioritize cross-matter issue mapping while preparing examiner-specific responses for chemistry and materials questions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 2 | 45.6% | +35.4% |
| KAHN, RACHEL | 1 | 27.9% | +17.3% |
| WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 1 | 73.5% | +16.4% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.8% | +19.7% |
| GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CHAU, LINDA N | 1 | 44.7% | +15.8% |
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 49.5% | +23.0% |
| KWON, JUN | 1 | 42.0% | +43.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694969 | SWITCHED PIXEL ARRAY LiDAR SENSOR AND PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039332 | CLOSED-LOOP THERMOSET POLYMERS WITH IMPROVED PROCESSIBILITY AND TUNABLE DEGRADATION | KAHN, RACHEL | 2d overdue |
| 18799575 | DURABLE, BROADBAND-TRANSPARENT POLYOXALAMIDE POLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 41d |
| 18114202 | THERMALLY STABLE, CLADDED PERMANENT MAGNETS, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 69d |
| 18799082 | ARCHITECTED MATERIALS WITH CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 17852307 | PHASE-SEPARATED ANTIMICROBIAL COATINGS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17680195 | BIPHASIC COATINGS WITH CHEMICAL SENSING, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 5d overdue |
| 17064566 | AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR GENERATION WITH HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | KWON, JUN | 4d overdue |
| 19039332 | CLOSED-LOOP THERMOSET POLYMERS WITH IMPROVED PROCESSIBILITY AND TUNABLE DEGRADATION | KAHN, RACHEL | 2d overdue |
| 18799575 | DURABLE, BROADBAND-TRANSPARENT POLYOXALAMIDE POLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 41d |
| 18114202 | THERMALLY STABLE, CLADDED PERMANENT MAGNETS, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 69d |
| 18799082 | ARCHITECTED MATERIALS WITH CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 18074988 | SENSORS FOR ANTIMICROBIAL BIPHASIC POLYMERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING THE SAME | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | — |
| 17852307 | PHASE-SEPARATED ANTIMICROBIAL COATINGS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 2 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 2127 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039332 | CLOSED-LOOP THERMOSET POLYMERS WITH IMPROVED PROCESSIBILITY AND TUNABLE DEGRADATION | KAHN, RACHEL | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18799575 | DURABLE, BROADBAND-TRANSPARENT POLYOXALAMIDE POLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 1765 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18799082 | ARCHITECTED MATERIALS WITH CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18694969 | SWITCHED PIXEL ARRAY LiDAR SENSOR AND PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2024 |
| 18114202 | THERMALLY STABLE, CLADDED PERMANENT MAGNETS, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 18074988 | SENSORS FOR ANTIMICROBIAL BIPHASIC POLYMERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING THE SAME | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17852307 | PHASE-SEPARATED ANTIMICROBIAL COATINGS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 17680195 | BIPHASIC COATINGS WITH CHEMICAL SENSING, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
| 17064566 | AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR GENERATION WITH HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | KWON, JUN | 2127 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialHRL Laboratories LLC has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 8 examiners.
Rebecca M Fritchman has the most, with 2 of HRL Laboratories LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
