Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Recarbon Inc.

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

Analysis

Recarbon Inc. is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's current prosecution status shows 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the administrative and legal oversight required for the portfolio. The prosecution is also contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific subset of chemical or material technologies.

SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T is the busiest examiner for Recarbon Inc., currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner in total, SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T is the sole individual responsible for the current review. This relationship between the examiner and the pending workload within the 1 distinct art unit allows for a very targeted prosecution strategy. Legal teams should prioritize the specific feedback provided by SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T to resolve the 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T 1 79.2% +0.9%

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1736 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18463222 CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T 1736 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 07, 2023

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