Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Shimadzu Corporation

87 pending office actions • 42 art units • 76 examiners • 0 of 87 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 222 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

87
Total Pending OAs
60
Non-Final OAs
26
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 85 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

39
Overdue
3
Due this week
29
Due this month
9
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 85 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (39)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (29)Due ≤ 60 days (9)Due later (5)

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.

6
Hard (7%)
71
Medium (82%)
7
Easy (8%)
3
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only6 (7%)
§103 only63 (72%)
§102 only8 (9%)
§112 only7 (8%)
No statute on record3 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

21
Life Sciences
24% of docket
6
Information Tech
7% of docket
6
Communications
7% of docket
40
Semiconductors
46% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
16% 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.

870 h
Manual time on pending OAs
174 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
304 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 3 64.2% +10.7%
PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL 2 81.3% +24.7%
VANORE, DAVID A 2 88.8% +7.5%
LE, AUSTIN Q 2 47.7% +33.6%
WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE 2 83.3% +19.5%
JEONG, YOUNGSUL 2 71.8% +21.3%
EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 2 78.6% +27.3%
DALBO, MICHAEL J 2 66.4% +18.8%
GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 2 48.3% +24.7%
WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 2 67.9% +68.2%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18718017 SPECTROPHOTOMETER PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL 111d overdue
18579781 Mass Spectrometer and Mass Spectrometry Method VANORE, DAVID A 23d overdue
18597175 Gas Absorption Spectroscopy Device PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL 13d
18276323 CALIBRANT FOR USE IN MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE 28d
18215023 AUTOMATIC DISPENSING DEVICE WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE 71d

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
16925558 ANALYZING DEVICE PEO, KARA M 23d overdue
18378558 GAS CHROMATOGRAPH ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND GAS CHROMATOGRAPH ASSISTANCE METHOD GO, RICKY 15d overdue
17518750 WAVEFORM PROCESSING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND WAVEFORM PROCESSING ASSISTANCE METHOD DALBO, MICHAEL J 6d
17889387 MATERIAL TESTING MACHINE BAHLS, JENNIFER E. S. 29d
18567195 IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO ION ANALYSIS VANORE, DAVID A 61d
18023346 PEAK SHAPE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND PEAK SHAPE ESTIMATION METHOD DALBO, MICHAEL J

Interview Candidates (19)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17913997 CELL ANALYSIS DEVICE WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 204d overdue
18718017 SPECTROPHOTOMETER PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL 111d overdue
18197077 ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM JEONG, YOUNGSUL 91d overdue
18169540 HEATER FOR IONIZATION LOGIE, MICHAEL J 85d overdue
17782656 CHROMATOGRAPH SYSTEM JEONG, YOUNGSUL 81d overdue
17926356 Data Processing Device, Data Processing Method, Data Processing Program, and Analysis Device EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 42d overdue
18008050 AUTOMATIC SAMPLE INJECTION DEVICE WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 26d overdue
18094528 ELECTROPHORESIS SYSTEM, ELECTROPHORESIS APPARATUS, AND ELECTROPHORESIS ANALYSIS METHOD GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 4d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2857 13
2877 6
2878 5
2881 5
1796 4
2884 3
2855 3
1797 3
1798 3
3797 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18703774 BIOMAGNETISM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS CWERN, JONATHAN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 14, 2025
19097294 PIPE CONNECTING STRUCTURE HEWITT, JAMES M 3679 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 01, 2025
18851582 EVALUATION METHOD, EVALUATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM HONG, RICHARD J 2623 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jan 02, 2025
18921757 MAGNET PLATE, SEPARATION DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC DISPENSER USING MAGNET PLATE DEVINE, MOLLY K 3653 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 21, 2024
18687346 OPTICAL AXIS ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR LASER MODULE AND OPTICAL AXIS ADJUSTMENT JIG PYO, KEVIN K 2878 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2024
18830237 CALCULATION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ANALYSIS DEVICE FOR COST PERFORMANCE IN LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPH SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Sep 10, 2024
18777589 ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY DETECTOR RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J 2858 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18726837 X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM AND DOSE DISPLAY METHOD ARTMAN, THOMAS R 2884 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 05, 2024
18718812 TREATMENT SUPPORT DEVICE FARAG, AMAL ALY 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18718017 SPECTROPHOTOMETER PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL 2877 §103 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2024
18686416 MICROSCOPIC RAMAN DEVICE FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 2877 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending May 30, 2024
18676822 Gas Absorption Spectrometer AMARA, MOHAMED K 2877 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 29, 2024
18629497 UNDERWATER OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE SHAMEEM, ASIF ISLAM 2634 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18624582 ANALYSIS DEVICE SPLIT, JAMES GERALD 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 02, 2024
18695402 Method, System, and Apparatus for Controlling Multiple Experimental Devices SHIBRU, HELEN 2484 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18614653 SPECTROPHOTOMETER SMITH, MAURICE C 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Mar 23, 2024
18606220 Medical Service Support Method, Recording Medium, and Medical Service Support System ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 3682 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18691356 Image Pick-Up System and Image Pick-Up Method BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 2674 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18691402 ACCELERATED DEGRADATION TESTING DEVICE PLUMB, NIGEL H 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2024
18597175 Gas Absorption Spectroscopy Device PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL 2877 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18686152 Ionizer SMYTH, ANDREW P 2878 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18586034 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM ADAMS, CHARLES D 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18294930 Mass Spectrometer and Mass Spectrometry Method LI, LARRY 2881 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 02, 2024
18579781 Mass Spectrometer and Mass Spectrometry Method VANORE, DAVID A 2878 §112 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18406307 SHUT-OFF VALVE, VACUUM PUMP SYSTEM, AND VACUUM PUMP LEE, GEOFFREY S 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18390580 MATERIAL TESTING MACHINE AND FIXING MECHANISM FRANK, RODNEY T 2855 §112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18567194 IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO ION ANALYSIS KNOX, KALERIA 2857 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18567195 IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO ION ANALYSIS VANORE, DAVID A 2878 §101 Final Rejection 61d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18522404 ANALYSIS APPARATUS SHEN, YUZHEN 2623 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
18518965 SPECTRUM ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND SPECTRUM ANALYSIS METHOD NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 2857 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 25, 2023
18518273 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPOUND DETERMINATION BY MASS SPECTROMETRY STOFFA, WYATT A 2881 §112 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Nov 22, 2023
18560205 Respiratory Measurement Method, Respiratory Measurement Device, and Respiratory Measurement System CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY 3791 §102 Final Rejection 42d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18559084 Sleeping Video Analysis Method And Sleeping Video Analysis Apparatus HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18288350 ANALYSIS DEVICE AND WAVEFORM PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR ANALYSIS DEVICE SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18287424 SUGAR CHAIN ANALYSIS METHOD WHITE, ASHLEY TAYLOR 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2023
18378558 GAS CHROMATOGRAPH ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND GAS CHROMATOGRAPH ASSISTANCE METHOD GO, RICKY 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2023
18285144 X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM TANINGCO, MARCUS H 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18367003 ION MOBILITY ANALYSIS APPARATUS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §102 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18279339 Infectious Disease Testing Method KRCHA, MATTHEW D 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18237530 MICROCHANNEL DEVICE LE, AUSTIN Q 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18276323 CALIBRANT FOR USE IN MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18221161 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NUCLEAR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN 2677 §112 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18271386 METHOD FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY OF ORGANIC SYNTHETIC COMPOUND JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO 1797 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18215023 AUTOMATIC DISPENSING DEVICE WASHINGTON, BRITNEY NICOLE 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18213479 ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS METHOD SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18331248 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM SERVER SPRAUL III, VINCENT ANTON 2129 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 08, 2023
18203356 MASS SPECTROMETER CHANG, HANWAY 2878 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending May 30, 2023
18197077 ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE DEVICE, ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING ANALYSIS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM JEONG, YOUNGSUL 1772 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending May 14, 2023
18143992 DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION DEVICE CHARIOUI, MOHAMED 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 160d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18139109 SAMPLE SUPPLY DEVICE AND GAS CHROMATOGRAPH RAEVIS, ROBERT R 2855 §112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 25, 2023
18135158 DISPENSING DEVICE AND DETACHMENT PLATE LE, AUSTIN Q 1796 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Apr 16, 2023
17926356 Data Processing Device, Data Processing Method, Data Processing Program, and Analysis Device EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 2857 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18025856 SENSIBILITY MEASURING METHOD AND SENSIBILITY MEASURING SYSTEM MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M 3627 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Mar 10, 2023
18023345 Wearable Device and Detection System GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER 3791 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Feb 25, 2023
18023346 PEAK SHAPE ESTIMATION DEVICE AND PEAK SHAPE ESTIMATION METHOD DALBO, MICHAEL J 2857 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 25, 2023
18112951 X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING POSITION CORRECTION METHOD GUNBERG, EDWIN C 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 22, 2023
18111105 Training Support Method ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 2127 §102 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Feb 17, 2023
18169540 HEATER FOR IONIZATION LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18101652 ODOR EVALUATION DEVICE DAVIS, CYNTHIA L 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 26, 2023
18098352 X-RAY FLUORESCENCE ANALYZER, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM KAY, DOUGLAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2023
18015649 MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD AND MASS SPECTROMETER LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Jan 11, 2023
18094528 ELECTROPHORESIS SYSTEM, ELECTROPHORESIS APPARATUS, AND ELECTROPHORESIS ANALYSIS METHOD GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2023
18014866 CELL CULTURE SYSTEM HURST, JONATHAN M 1799 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
18079481 ELECTROPHORESIS SYSTEM, ELECTROPHORESIS APPARATUS, AND ELECTROPHORESIS ANALYSIS METHOD GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 12, 2022
18008050 AUTOMATIC SAMPLE INJECTION DEVICE WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 1798 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022
17994391 RAMAN MICROSCOPE RIZVI, AKBAR HASSAN 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
17913997 CELL ANALYSIS DEVICE WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 1798 Other Non-Final OA 204d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17921969 COMPLEX ANALYSIS DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMPLEX ANALYSIS DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Oct 27, 2022
17968973 DETECTOR FOR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPH GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN 1777 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Oct 19, 2022
17969650 Infrared Transmissive Member and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscope PARBADIA, BALRAM T 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2022
17957014 DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT 2857 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17951553 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17942296 MICROCHANNEL DEVICE KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2022
17889387 MATERIAL TESTING MACHINE BAHLS, JENNIFER E. S. 2853 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Aug 16, 2022
17857316 DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFERENCE METHOD NGUYEN, LAM S 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2022
17597405 PREPARATION METHOD FOR SAMPLE TO BE ANALYZED, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND KIT FOR PREPARATION OF SAMPLE TO BE ANALYZED HIBSHMAN, SARAH GRACE 1693 Other Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2022
17836520 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR CHROMATOGRAPH KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2022
17782656 CHROMATOGRAPH SYSTEM JEONG, YOUNGSUL 1772 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2022
17761063 ION ANALYZER CHEN, CHANGRU 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 16, 2022
17685453 Microorganism Discrimination Method and System SKIBINSKY, ANNA 1635 §103 Non-Final OA 191d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2022
17637872 TREATMENT SUPPORT DEVICE AND THERAPEUTIC LIGHT CONTROL METHOD BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD 3796 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 24, 2022
17636829 IMAGING DEVICE, TREATMENT DEVICE, AND IMAGING METHOD SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN 3796 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 18, 2022
17635207 TREATMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD LUONG, PETER 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 14, 2022
17548843 TREATMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM, TREATMENT SUPPORT DEVICE, DISPLAY IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND LASER OUTPUT METHOD MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN 3792 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Dec 13, 2021
17518750 WAVEFORM PROCESSING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND WAVEFORM PROCESSING ASSISTANCE METHOD DALBO, MICHAEL J 2857 §101 Final Rejection 6d Pending Nov 04, 2021
17273762 DATA ANALYZER KHAN, SHAHID K 2146 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Mar 05, 2021
16925558 ANALYZING DEVICE PEO, KARA M 1777 §101 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2020

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