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
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The current activity represents a highly focused segment of the company's broader intellectual property interests. This concentration in a single art unit suggests a specific technical application within the chemistry sector.
KURPLE, KARL is the busiest examiner for this specific portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Because the data shows only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the current prosecution is limited to a single examiner's perspective. This allows for a concentrated response to the pending issues in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should review the specific examination patterns of this individual to ensure the response is aligned with their expectations and procedural requirements.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286083 | COATING DIE AND COATING DEVICE | KURPLE, KARL | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286083 | COATING DIE AND COATING DEVICE | KURPLE, KARL | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18286083 | COATING DIE AND COATING DEVICE | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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