Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ikm Testing UK Limited has 1 pending office action located in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The concentration of the portfolio into a single point of contact simplifies the tracking of prosecution milestones for the company. This relationship between the 1 action, the 1 examiner, and the 1 art unit defines a narrow administrative footprint for the current portfolio.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FRANK, RODNEY T, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action in total, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload in this technology area. The alignment of the action with 1 examiner and 1 art unit reflects a focused prosecution path. For the practitioner, this means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector depends entirely on the interaction with this specific examiner within this single art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANK, RODNEY T | 1 | 72.8% | +3.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697076 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN GAS EMISSION DETECTION AND/OR QUANTIFICATION | FRANK, RODNEY T | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIkm Testing UK Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rodney T Frank has the most, with 1 of Ikm Testing UK Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
