Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Horiba Stec Co. Ltd.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (17%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only4 (67%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
4
Semiconductors
67% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, SANG H 1 88.6% +11.8%
TRAN, TRAN M. 1 74.5% +23.5%
PARK, HYUN D 1 41.1% +23.0%
NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 1 57.1% +60.0%
KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 1 80.8% +18.6%
LINDSAY, BERNARD G 1 68.8% +46.6%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18899560 PATTERN MEASUREMENT DEVICE, PATTERN MEASUREMENT PROGRAM, AND PATTERN MEASUREMENT METHOD NGUYEN, SANG H 1d overdue
18055774 FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, VAPORIZATION SYSTEM, AND PIEZO ACTUATOR KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 8d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18560174 FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, FLUID CONTROL SYSTEM, FLUID CONTROL DEVICE PROGRAM, AND FLUID CONTROL METHOD PARK, HYUN D 9d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18560174 FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, FLUID CONTROL SYSTEM, FLUID CONTROL DEVICE PROGRAM, AND FLUID CONTROL METHOD PARK, HYUN D 9d overdue
18899560 PATTERN MEASUREMENT DEVICE, PATTERN MEASUREMENT PROGRAM, AND PATTERN MEASUREMENT METHOD NGUYEN, SANG H 1d overdue
18055774 FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, VAPORIZATION SYSTEM, AND PIEZO ACTUATOR KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 8d
18597775 PIEZO ELEMENT DIAGNOSIS DEVICE, PIEZO ELEMENT DIAGNOSIS METHOD, PIEZO ELEMENT DIAGNOSIS PROGRAM, FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, AND VAPORIZATION SYSTEM TRAN, TRAN M. 42d
18139428 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING EXCURSION IN PLASMA PROCESSING NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 54d
17771714 FLUID RESISTANCE ELEMENT AND FLUID CONTROL DEVICE LINDSAY, BERNARD G 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2877 1
2855 1
2857 1
2858 1
2688 1
2119 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18899560 PATTERN MEASUREMENT DEVICE, PATTERN MEASUREMENT PROGRAM, AND PATTERN MEASUREMENT METHOD NGUYEN, SANG H 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18597775 PIEZO ELEMENT DIAGNOSIS DEVICE, PIEZO ELEMENT DIAGNOSIS METHOD, PIEZO ELEMENT DIAGNOSIS PROGRAM, FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, AND VAPORIZATION SYSTEM TRAN, TRAN M. 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18560174 FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, FLUID CONTROL SYSTEM, FLUID CONTROL DEVICE PROGRAM, AND FLUID CONTROL METHOD PARK, HYUN D 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18139428 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING EXCURSION IN PLASMA PROCESSING NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18055774 FLUID CONTROL DEVICE, VAPORIZATION SYSTEM, AND PIEZO ACTUATOR KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH 2688 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Nov 15, 2022
17771714 FLUID RESISTANCE ELEMENT AND FLUID CONTROL DEVICE LINDSAY, BERNARD G 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Apr 25, 2022

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