Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Senju Metal Industry Co. Ltd.

7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GAMINO, CARLOS J 2 35.3% +46.0%
KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN 1 63.0% +40.6%
SMITH, CATHERINE P 1 16.1% +12.3%
PATEL, DEVANG R 1 65.1% +39.3%
VILLALUNA, ERIKA J 1 84.8% +3.0%
COHEN, STEFANIE J 1 75.3% +2.1%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18380939 Soldering Apparatus And Method Of Detecting Failures Of Gasket VILLALUNA, ERIKA J 28d

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
18766832 Lead-Free Solder Ball SMITH, CATHERINE P 34d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18036024 JET SOLDERING APPARATUS GAMINO, CARLOS J 71d overdue
19191151 METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE USING JET SOLDERING APPARATUS GAMINO, CARLOS J 5d overdue
18037661 SOLDER PROCESSING APPARATUS PATEL, DEVANG R 4d overdue
18824432 Solder Alloy, Solder Ball, Solder Paste, and Solder Joint KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN 15d
18766832 Lead-Free Solder Ball SMITH, CATHERINE P 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1735 4
1733 1
2852 1
1732 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19191151 METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE USING JET SOLDERING APPARATUS GAMINO, CARLOS J 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2025
18824432 Solder Alloy, Solder Ball, Solder Paste, and Solder Joint KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN 1733 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Sep 04, 2024
18766832 Lead-Free Solder Ball SMITH, CATHERINE P 1735 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 09, 2024
18037661 SOLDER PROCESSING APPARATUS PATEL, DEVANG R 1735 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18380939 Soldering Apparatus And Method Of Detecting Failures Of Gasket VILLALUNA, ERIKA J 2852 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18036024 JET SOLDERING APPARATUS GAMINO, CARLOS J 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
17911485 FLUX AND SOLDER PASTE COHEN, STEFANIE J 1732 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Sep 14, 2022

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