Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seer Inc. has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The docket involves 8 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, indicating broad distribution across examination personnel with some repeated technical-unit coverage.
FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The portfolio is therefore not centered on one examiner, although that assignment merits coordinated monitoring. Counsel should maintain consistent chemistry and materials positions while adapting claim amendments, technical evidence, and response arguments to the different examination settings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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% |
| YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1 | 67.4% | +44.1% |
| BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1 | 65.6% | +52.7% |
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 77.8% | +49.3% |
| COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | 1 | — | — |
| COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1 | 81.8% | +42.4% |
| HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730551 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | — |
| 18727620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSAYING SECRETOME | COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | — |
| 18395124 | PARTICLE-BASED BIOSEPARATION ASSAYS | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
| 18318563 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYSIS OF MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA | HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | — |
| 18164542 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING BIOMOLECULE EMBEDDINGS | THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | — |
| 18006142 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763980 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 88d overdue |
| 19378180 | PEPTIDE DECORATED NANOPARTICLES FOR ENRICHMENT OF SPECIFIC PROTEIN SUBSETS | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | — |
| 18730925 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR METABOLOMICS AND LIPIDOMICS ANALYSIS | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | — |
| 18730551 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | — |
| 18395124 | PARTICLE-BASED BIOSEPARATION ASSAYS | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | — |
| 18006142 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 1758 | 2 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 2125 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19378180 | PEPTIDE DECORATED NANOPARTICLES FOR ENRICHMENT OF SPECIFIC PROTEIN SUBSETS | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 18730925 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR METABOLOMICS AND LIPIDOMICS ANALYSIS | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18730551 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18727620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSAYING SECRETOME | COLE, HOUSTON DAVID | 1651 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18763980 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18395124 | PARTICLE-BASED BIOSEPARATION ASSAYS | COLENA, TRACY CHING-TIAN | 1797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18318563 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYSIS OF MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA | HILL, GRACELYN MARKHAM | 2125 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 18164542 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING BIOMOLECULE EMBEDDINGS | THOMPSON, MILANA KAYE | 1687 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18006142 | PARTICLES AND METHODS OF ASSAYING | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSeer Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Rebecca M Fritchman has the most, with 2 of Seer Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
