Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gema Switzerland GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly focused prosecution footprint. KARL KURPLE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on record. This concentration of activity means that the company's immediate patenting goals are tied to a single administrative path within the USPTO. Practitioners can dedicate their full attention to the specific procedural requirements and technical standards of this individual examiner without the distraction of competing deadlines or varying art unit policies.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the applicant faces a centralized examination environment. The outcome of the portfolio's current activity depends entirely on the interactions with KARL KURPLE. Practitioners should analyze this examiner's past behavior in the Chemistry & Materials sector to anticipate potential rejections or requirements. Since there is only 1 pending office action, the strategic focus is narrow, allowing for a deep dive into the specific prior art and claim language relevant to this case. This streamlined prosecution profile reduces the complexity often associated with managing larger portfolios across multiple technology sectors.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURPLE, KARL | 1 | 51.9% | +63.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257825 | SYSTEM FOR COATING OBJECTS WITH COATING MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR COATING OBJECTS WITH COATING MATERIAL | KURPLE, KARL | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18257825 | SYSTEM FOR COATING OBJECTS WITH COATING MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR COATING OBJECTS WITH COATING MATERIAL | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
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