Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Riken Keiki Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions situated in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These filings are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the company's current U.S. patent activities. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, the company faces a consolidated prosecution environment where an examiner's interpretation of the prior art will be decisive for all current matters.
FRANK, RODNEY T serves as the busiest examiner, overseeing the 2 pending office actions. This means that the company's current pending workload is assigned to him, creating a high level of examiner-specific risk. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific tendencies of FRANK, RODNEY T, as his decisions will impact the entirety of the pending office actions. The lack of diversity across art units or examiners simplifies the administrative burden but increases the importance of a successful relationship with this examiner in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANK, RODNEY T | 2 | 72.8% | +3.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18906255 | Gas Detector | FRANK, RODNEY T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906274 | Gas Detector | FRANK, RODNEY T | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18906255 | Gas Detector | FRANK, RODNEY T | 2855 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRiken Keiki Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rodney T Frank has the most, with 2 of Riken Keiki Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
