Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Horiba Advanced Techno Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed among 4 examiners and 4 art units, with each identified matter occupying a separate examiner and art-unit assignment.
NGUYEN, SANG H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The distribution favors individual prosecution review rather than reliance on a single examiner relationship, while centralized docket control can coordinate the four 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, SANG H | 1 | 88.7% | +11.6% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 75.0% | +23.1% |
| AKRAM, IMRAN | 1 | 64.6% | +43.1% |
| KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1 | 69.8% | +21.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730217 | MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT, MEASUREMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563600 | MICROORGANISM DETECTION APPARATUS AND MICROORGANISM DETECTION METHOD | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 83d |
| 18702053 | COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING DEVICE, COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING PROGRAM, AND COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING METHOD | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18564875 | ION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND FUEL CELL EVALUATION SYSTEM | AKRAM, IMRAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563600 | MICROORGANISM DETECTION APPARATUS AND MICROORGANISM DETECTION METHOD | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 83d |
| 18730217 | MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT, MEASUREMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
| 18702053 | COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING DEVICE, COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING PROGRAM, AND COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING METHOD | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18564875 | ION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND FUEL CELL EVALUATION SYSTEM | AKRAM, IMRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730217 | MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT, MEASUREMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | NGUYEN, SANG H | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18702053 | COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING DEVICE, COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING PROGRAM, AND COMPONENT CONCENTRATION MEASURING METHOD | TRAN, TRAN M. | 2855 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18564875 | ION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND FUEL CELL EVALUATION SYSTEM | AKRAM, IMRAN | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18563600 | MICROORGANISM DETECTION APPARATUS AND MICROORGANISM DETECTION METHOD | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1759 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHoriba Advanced Techno Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Sang H Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Horiba Advanced Techno Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
