Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

N E Chemcat Corporation

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW 1 100.0% +0.0%
GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1 77.8% +18.8%
ZHANG, KELING NMN 1 66.5% +18.2%
DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1 65.9% +35.2%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18263646 GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST FILTER CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW 19d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17440471 SELECTIVE REDUCING CATALYST FOR DIESELS AND DIESEL EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS ZHANG, KELING NMN 8d overdue
16487447 EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT CATALYST FOR ABATEMENT OF NITROGEN OXIDES DAVIS, SHENG HAN 40d
18026553 CATALYST FOR ELECTRODES, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODE, GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODE, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL STACK GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1732 2
1742 1
1729 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18263646 GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST GAS PURIFYING CATALYST FILTER CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18026553 CATALYST FOR ELECTRODES, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODE, GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODE, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL STACK GATEWOOD, DANIEL S 1729 §112 Final Rejection 41d Pending Mar 15, 2023
17440471 SELECTIVE REDUCING CATALYST FOR DIESELS AND DIESEL EXHAUST GAS PURIFICATION APPARATUS ZHANG, KELING NMN 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 17, 2021
16487447 EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT CATALYST FOR ABATEMENT OF NITROGEN OXIDES DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Aug 21, 2019

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