Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Eskra Technical Products Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Both of these 2 pending actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the prosecution process. However, the data shows that these actions are being reviewed within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the subject matter spans different technical classifications despite being handled by the same individual.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KURPLE, KARL, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. Because the total number of pending office actions is 2, KURPLE, KARL is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. This concentration means that the prosecution outcomes are entirely dependent on the findings and history of this 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of KURPLE, KARL, as there are no other examiners involved across the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURPLE, KARL | 2 | 52.0% | +63.3% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17811634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING AN ELECTRODE WITH SEPARATOR | KURPLE, KARL | — |
| 17811632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FABRICATING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | KURPLE, KARL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17811634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING AN ELECTRODE WITH SEPARATOR | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2022 |
| 17811632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FABRICATING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE | KURPLE, KARL | 1798 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEskra Technical Products Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 1 examiners.
Karl Kurple has the most, with 2 of Eskra Technical Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
