Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Catator AB maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently reported for this company. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting the chemical nature of the company's technology. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner. This suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are being evaluated in a highly specialized and singular technical environment.
SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T is the busiest examiner for Catator AB. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 1, SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload. This shows that the current patent applications are being reviewed by a single examiner in one specific art unit. All current progress on pending matters is subject to the review of this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1 | 79.2% | +1.3% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566941 | A CATALYTIC REACTOR AND A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CATALYTIC REACTION | SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1774 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCatator AB has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lessanework T Seifu has the most, with 1 of Catator AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
