Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

BOLT THREADS, INC.

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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.

4
Hard (57%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

7
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.

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
KIM, YUNJU 1 55.6% +34.8%
YU, HONG 1 31.1% +5.5%
DESAI, ANAND U 1 78.6% +12.6%
SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1 57.0% +36.3%
MCNEIL, STEPHANIE A N 1 10.9% +10.1%
BARRON, SEAN C 1 53.3% +30.6%
KNIGHT, SAMANTHA JO 1 31.3% +73.3%

Hard Cases (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17799051 RECOMBINANT SILK SOLIDS AND FILMS SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 5d overdue
17636721 METHODS FOR ISOLATING SPIDER SILK PROTEINS VIA HIGH SHEAR SOLUBILIZATION MCNEIL, STEPHANIE A N 15d
18706281 COSMETIC AND PERSONAL CARE COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RECOMBINANT SILK YU, HONG
18533639 ELASTOMERIC PROTEINS DESAI, ANAND U
17633498 METHODS FOR IMPROVED EXTRACTION OF SPIDER SILK PROTEINS BARRON, SEAN C

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18825861 COMPOSITION FOR A MOLDED BODY KIM, YUNJU 31d overdue
17626258 RECOMBINANT SPIDER SILK EXTRUDATE FORMULATIONS KNIGHT, SAMANTHA JO 19d overdue
17799051 RECOMBINANT SILK SOLIDS AND FILMS SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 5d overdue
17636721 METHODS FOR ISOLATING SPIDER SILK PROTEINS VIA HIGH SHEAR SOLUBILIZATION MCNEIL, STEPHANIE A N 15d
18533639 ELASTOMERIC PROTEINS DESAI, ANAND U
17633498 METHODS FOR IMPROVED EXTRACTION OF SPIDER SILK PROTEINS BARRON, SEAN C

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1614 2
1653 2
1742 1
1655 1
1657 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18825861 COMPOSITION FOR A MOLDED BODY KIM, YUNJU 1742 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2024
18706281 COSMETIC AND PERSONAL CARE COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RECOMBINANT SILK YU, HONG 1614 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18533639 ELASTOMERIC PROTEINS DESAI, ANAND U 1655 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
17799051 RECOMBINANT SILK SOLIDS AND FILMS SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1657 §103§112 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2022
17636721 METHODS FOR ISOLATING SPIDER SILK PROTEINS VIA HIGH SHEAR SOLUBILIZATION MCNEIL, STEPHANIE A N 1653 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Feb 18, 2022
17633498 METHODS FOR IMPROVED EXTRACTION OF SPIDER SILK PROTEINS BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2022
17626258 RECOMBINANT SPIDER SILK EXTRUDATE FORMULATIONS KNIGHT, SAMANTHA JO 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2022

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