Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Strain Measurement Devices Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of prosecution in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics area reflects the company's current intellectual property focus. By having all active matters in 1 distinct art unit, the company's legal team can focus its efforts on the specific standards of that administrative group.
The busiest examiner for the company is KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner manages the company's current active workload at the patent office. For the practitioner, this indicates that the company's immediate success is tied to the decisions of this 1 examiner. The alignment of the busiest examiner with the total pending actions suggests a very streamlined prosecution process for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | 1 | 84.4% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532821 | MULTI-AXIS FORCE SENSOR | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532821 | MULTI-AXIS FORCE SENSOR | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18532821 | MULTI-AXIS FORCE SENSOR | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | 2831 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialStrain Measurement Devices Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Freddie Kirkland III has the most, with 1 of Strain Measurement Devices Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
