Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Meter Group Inc. is managing 1 pending office action within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio in an art unit indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. This allows the applicant to tailor their arguments to the specific expertise of a technical group within the USPTO.
LIU, KENDRICK X is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there is only the current pending action in total, this examiner oversees the company's entire active prosecution before the USPTO. This point of contact simplifies the monitoring of deadlines and examiner interactions for the portfolio. For a company in the semiconductor space, having a pending matter with a distinct examiner represents a streamlined and manageable intellectual property footprint.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, KENDRICK X | 1 | 78.1% | +15.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755214 | SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR PROBE | LIU, KENDRICK X | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755214 | SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR PROBE | LIU, KENDRICK X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18755214 | SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR PROBE | LIU, KENDRICK X | 2853 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMeter Group Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kendrick X Liu has the most, with 1 of Meter Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
