Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Aspen Aerogels, Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
No statute on record2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
XU, JIANGTIAN 1 65.5% +33.9%
VO, HAI 1 57.0% +72.2%
VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1 53.8% +24.3%
JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1 34.7% +44.0%
GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA 1 53.9% +14.2%

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
18698323 ALUMINOSILICATE AEROGELS VAN SELL, NATHAN L 51d overdue
18736361 LAMINATES COMPRISING REINFORCED AEROGEL COMPOSITES VO, HAI 8d
18776930 AQUEOUS POLYIMIDE PROCESSES XU, JIANGTIAN 15d
18195367 AEROGEL-BASED COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE THERMAL MANAGEMENT GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA 21d
18695338 MATERIALS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FOIL ENCAPSULATION OF AEROGELS AND AEROGEL COMPOSITES JACKSON, MONIQUE R 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1762 1
1788 1
1783 1
1787 1
1721 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18776930 AQUEOUS POLYIMIDE PROCESSES XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18736361 LAMINATES COMPRISING REINFORCED AEROGEL COMPOSITES VO, HAI 1788 Other Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18698323 ALUMINOSILICATE AEROGELS VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18695338 MATERIALS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FOIL ENCAPSULATION OF AEROGELS AND AEROGEL COMPOSITES JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1787 Other Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18195367 AEROGEL-BASED COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE THERMAL MANAGEMENT GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 09, 2023

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