Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Material Solutions Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit.
CHEN, KEATH T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The separate assignments favor matter-specific response planning, with portfolio coordination used to maintain consistent technical positions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, KEATH T | 1 | 30.2% | +24.7% |
| LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 1 | 63.1% | +9.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18108429 | ION IMPLANTER AND ION IMPLANTATION METHOD | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 34d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820393 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHEN, KEATH T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1716 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18820393 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | CHEN, KEATH T | 1716 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18108429 | ION IMPLANTER AND ION IMPLANTATION METHOD | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSumitomo Heavy Industries Material Solutions Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Keath T Chen has the most, with 1 of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Material Solutions Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
