Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
13 pending office actions • 6 clients • 12 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
OConnor & Company PLLC focuses on Chemistry & Materials, with a total of 409 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 85.11 percent.
The firm currently manages 12 pending office actions and averages 3.39 office actions per allowance. This average of 3.39 indicates the typical duration of the prosecution cycle for the firm's 409 career applications.
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 (31%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (54%) |
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 | 45.7% | +35.3% |
| DISNEY, CHRISTINE CONLON | 1 | 22.2% | +25.8% |
| TAKEUCHI, YOSHITOSHI | 1 | 66.6% | +24.3% |
| KAHN, RACHEL | 1 | 27.9% | +17.4% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
| WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 1 | 73.4% | +16.4% |
| MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1 | 28.2% | +37.0% |
| WEI, ZHONGQING | 1 | 59.0% | +14.5% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.2% | +47.3% |
| CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1 | 59.6% | +18.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 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 |
| 18197060 | WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS UTILIZING CARBOXYLATE LIGANDS | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 41d |
| 18114202 | THERMALLY STABLE, CLADDED PERMANENT MAGNETS, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | CHAU, LINDA N | 69d |
| 19465686 | MAGNESIUM-ALLOY CURRENT COLLECTORS FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | DISNEY, CHRISTINE CONLON | — |
| 18799082 | ARCHITECTED MATERIALS WITH CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 18753300 | TREATED GRAIN PRODUCTS BASED ON INTERMEDIATE WHEAT, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | — |
| 18121153 | BIOREACTORS CONFIGURED FOR UV STERILIZATION, AND METHODS OF USING UV STERILIZATION IN BIOPROCESSES | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | — |
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 |
| 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 |
| 18197060 | WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS UTILIZING CARBOXYLATE LIGANDS | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 41d |
| 19465686 | MAGNESIUM-ALLOY CURRENT COLLECTORS FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | DISNEY, CHRISTINE CONLON | — |
| 19170668 | ANODE MATERIALS FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | TAKEUCHI, YOSHITOSHI | — |
| 18799082 | ARCHITECTED MATERIALS WITH CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 18753300 | TREATED GRAIN PRODUCTS BASED ON INTERMEDIATE WHEAT, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| HRL Laboratories | 8 |
| Khemia Metals Inc. | 1 |
| Tyfast | 1 |
| Agricultural Utilization Research Institute | 1 |
| University of California | 1 |
| Arcology | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 1758 | 2 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19465686 | MAGNESIUM-ALLOY CURRENT COLLECTORS FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Khemia Metals Inc. | DISNEY, CHRISTINE CONLON | 1723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2026 |
| 19170668 | ANODE MATERIALS FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Tyfast | TAKEUCHI, YOSHITOSHI | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19039332 | CLOSED-LOOP THERMOSET POLYMERS WITH IMPROVED PROCESSIBILITY AND TUNABLE DEGRADATION | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | KAHN, RACHEL | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18799082 | ARCHITECTED MATERIALS WITH CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18799575 | DURABLE, BROADBAND-TRANSPARENT POLYOXALAMIDE POLYMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 1765 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18753300 | TREATED GRAIN PRODUCTS BASED ON INTERMEDIATE WHEAT, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | Agricultural Utilization Research Institute | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18276513 | LONG-CYCLE-LIFE, HIGH-CAPACITY SILICON ANODES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | The Regents of the University of California | WEI, ZHONGQING | 1727 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18197060 | WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS UTILIZING CARBOXYLATE LIGANDS | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | May 13, 2023 |
| 18121153 | BIOREACTORS CONFIGURED FOR UV STERILIZATION, AND METHODS OF USING UV STERILIZATION IN BIOPROCESSES | Arcology Inc. Dba Biosphere | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 18114202 | THERMALLY STABLE, CLADDED PERMANENT MAGNETS, AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | 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 | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17852307 | PHASE-SEPARATED ANTIMICROBIAL COATINGS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | 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 | Hrl Laboratories, LLC | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
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