Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BOLT THREADS, INC. is managing 8 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 8 distinct examiners. The portfolio involves 5 distinct art units, showing a moderate level of technical diversity.
SONG, JIANFENG is the busiest examiner, though he only has 1 pending action. Because there are 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. This means the company must navigate different examiner perspectives across 5 distinct art units.
The presence of 8 pending office actions across 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's research is spread across several specialized areas of biotechnology. Practitioners should be aware that with 8 distinct examiners and 1 action per person, there is no central examiner to influence the overall direction of the pending portfolio.
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.
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.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, JIANFENG | 1 | 56.3% | +33.2% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.2% | +26.5% |
| YU, HONG | 1 | 30.9% | +5.6% |
| DESAI, ANAND U | 1 | 78.5% | +12.7% |
| SWIFT, CANDICE LEE | 1 | 57.5% | +36.0% |
| MCNEIL, STEPHANIE A N | 1 | 10.9% | +10.1% |
| BARRON, SEAN C | 1 | 52.9% | +30.9% |
| KNIGHT, SAMANTHA JO | 1 | 31.3% | +73.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 |
| 19060145 | Cosmetic and Personal Care compositions | SONG, JIANFENG | — |
| 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730006 | COMPOSITE MYCELIUM MATERIALS WITH ENHANCED MECHANICAL AND AESTHETIC PROPERTIES, AND EMBOSSING METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME | VERA, ELISA H | 23d 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 |
| 19060145 | Cosmetic and Personal Care compositions | SONG, JIANFENG | — |
| 18533639 | ELASTOMERIC PROTEINS | DESAI, ANAND U | — |
| 17633498 | METHODS FOR IMPROVED EXTRACTION OF SPIDER SILK PROTEINS | BARRON, SEAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1614 | 2 |
| 1653 | 2 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060145 | Cosmetic and Personal Care compositions | SONG, JIANFENG | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18730006 | COMPOSITE MYCELIUM MATERIALS WITH ENHANCED MECHANICAL AND AESTHETIC PROPERTIES, AND EMBOSSING METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 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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