Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tatsuta Electric Wire & Cable Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Both matters are assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, concentrating the docket in one examination setting.
KURPLE, KARL is the busiest examiner and handles 2 pending actions. Consistency in claim amendments and argumentation may therefore be useful across the pending matters.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561391 | Mask Jig, Film Formation Method, and Film Formation Apparatus | KURPLE, KARL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17908116 | SPRAY NOZZLE, NOZZLE TIP PART, AND THERMAL SPRAYING DEVICE CAPABLE OFREDUCING DIFFERENCE IN FILM THICKNESS | KURPLE, KARL | 14d |
| 18561391 | Mask Jig, Film Formation Method, and Film Formation Apparatus | KURPLE, KARL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18561391 | Mask Jig, Film Formation Method, and Film Formation Apparatus | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 17908116 | SPRAY NOZZLE, NOZZLE TIP PART, AND THERMAL SPRAYING DEVICE CAPABLE OFREDUCING DIFFERENCE IN FILM THICKNESS | KURPLE, KARL | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTatsuta Electric Wire & Cable Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Karl Kurple has the most, with 2 of Tatsuta Electric Wire & Cable Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
