Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are 10 pending office actions currently in the system. These matters are handled by 9 distinct examiners, indicating that nearly every action is under the review of a different official. The portfolio's activity is distributed across 4 distinct art units. ROE, JESSEE RANDALL is the busiest examiner, responsible for 2 pending office actions. The presence of 10 pending actions suggests a steady volume of ongoing prosecution.
This level of examiner diversity, with 9 distinct examiners for the pending office actions, requires a strategy that accounts for varied examiner styles across the 4 art units. The concentration of 2 pending actions with a single examiner represents the highest point of individual examiner engagement. Practitioners should monitor the progress of the busiest examiner while coordinating across the identified art units. This structure requires balancing a broad strategy across the 9 distinct examiners with a focused approach for the chemistry and materials sector.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (30%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 2 | 76.4% | +7.8% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.6% |
| MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | 1 | 78.9% | +15.1% |
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1 | 15.8% | +16.1% |
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 1 | 65.6% | +39.2% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.6% | +22.5% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 60.1% | +14.4% |
| KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN | 1 | 63.8% | +39.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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 |
| 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 7 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 |
| 18289104 | SLIDING MEMBER AND BEARING | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18523104 | CORE MATERIAL, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING BUMP ELECTRODE | KOSHY, JOPHY STEPHEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 3 |
| 1759 | 3 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3617 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18630257 | FLUX, SOLDER PASTE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING JOINED BODY | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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