Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Fredricks Company currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is under the review of examiner GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending matter. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, creating a very focused administrative profile. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts is entirely dependent on the decisions of a single examiner. There are no other pending matters to provide a baseline for examiner behavior within this company.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a limited number of active patent disputes. Because the work is confined to 1 distinct art unit, the practitioner can focus on the specific rules and precedents of that unit. GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN is the only examiner currently interacting with the company's pending applications, making their individual examination style the most critical factor in the prosecution. The focus on Chemistry & Materials suggests that the pending matter involves chemical or material science innovations. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's patent strategy is currently very narrow in scope.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1 | 83.3% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653150 | ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR CORROSION AND MENISCUS INHIBITION | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653150 | ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR CORROSION AND MENISCUS INHIBITION | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe Fredricks Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Noa William Fran Grooms has the most, with 1 of The Fredricks Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
