Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 5 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd. has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 9 examiners and 5 art units, showing broader examiner coverage than a single-channel portfolio while remaining within one technical area.
PATEL, DEVANG R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. No single examiner accounts for most of the pending work, so docket management should emphasize coordination across examination teams. The five art-unit assignments also make it useful to track recurring technology classifications and tailor responses to each unit’s treatment of claim scope and technical distinctions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (42%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 2 | 65.6% | +39.0% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 2 | 76.5% | +7.8% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.7% |
| MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | 1 | 78.8% | +15.3% |
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.4% |
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1 | 16.1% | +16.8% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.5% | +22.1% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 60.0% | +14.7% |
| KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN | 1 | 63.8% | +39.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19191151 | METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE USING JET SOLDERING APPARATUS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 5d overdue |
| 18766832 | Lead-Free Solder Ball | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 34d |
| 19101791 | FLUX AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONDED OBJECT | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| 18630257 | FLUX, SOLDER PASTE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING JOINED BODY | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
| 18523104 | CORE MATERIAL, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING BUMP ELECTRODE | KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19191151 | METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE USING JET SOLDERING APPARATUS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 5d overdue |
| 18037661 | SOLDER PROCESSING APPARATUS | PATEL, DEVANG R | 4d overdue |
| 18766832 | Lead-Free Solder Ball | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 34d |
| 19242410 | Solder Supply Method | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| 18289104 | SLIDING MEMBER AND BEARING | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | — |
| 19101791 | FLUX AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONDED OBJECT | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| 18703833 | WATER-SOLUBLE FLUX AND SOLDER PASTE | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18409939 | Solder Alloy, Solder Paste, Solder Ball, Solder Preform, Solder Joint, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit, ECU Electronic Circuit, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit Device, and ECU Electronic Circuit Device | KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 5 |
| 1759 | 3 |
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19242410 | Solder Supply Method | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19191151 | METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE USING JET SOLDERING APPARATUS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 18289104 | SLIDING MEMBER AND BEARING | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | 1785 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19101791 | FLUX AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONDED OBJECT | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18766832 | Lead-Free Solder Ball | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18037661 | SOLDER PROCESSING APPARATUS | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18703833 | WATER-SOLUBLE FLUX AND SOLDER PASTE | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18630257 | FLUX, SOLDER PASTE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING JOINED BODY | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18410462 | Solder Alloy, Solder Paste, Solder Ball, Solder Preform, Solder Joint, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit, ECU Electronic Circuit, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit Device, and ECU Electronic Circuit Device | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18410205 | Solder Alloy, Solder Paste, Solder Ball, Solder Preform, Solder Joint, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit, ECU Electronic Circuit, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit Device, and ECU Electronic Circuit Device | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18409939 | Solder Alloy, Solder Paste, Solder Ball, Solder Preform, Solder Joint, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit, ECU Electronic Circuit, Vehicle-Mounted Electronic Circuit Device, and ECU Electronic Circuit Device | KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 1759 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18523104 | CORE MATERIAL, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING BUMP ELECTRODE | KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSenju Metal Industry Co., Ltd. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 10 examiners.
Devang R Patel has the most, with 2 of Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
