Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Additive Technologies LLC D/B/A Additec focuses on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and localized prosecution effort within the materials science domain.
The busiest examiner for this company is SMITH, CATHERINE P. This examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, SMITH, CATHERINE P is responsible for the entire current workload. This suggests a highly specific prosecution environment within a single art unit. For practitioners, this centralization means that the company's immediate patent success depends on the review of 1 distinct examiner. The presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner highlights a focused approach to securing intellectual property. All current activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, further narrowing the scope of the company's pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1 | 16.1% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18233134 | BRIDGING INTERNAL CHANNELS IN 3D-PRINTED OBJECTS | SMITH, CATHERINE P | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18233134 | BRIDGING INTERNAL CHANNELS IN 3D-PRINTED OBJECTS | SMITH, CATHERINE P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18233134 | BRIDGING INTERNAL CHANNELS IN 3D-PRINTED OBJECTS | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAdditive Technologies LLC D/B/A Additec has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Catherine P Smith has the most, with 1 of Additive Technologies LLC D/B/A Additec's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
