Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gelest Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner, which requires the applicant to manage separate prosecution tracks without any examiner overlap.
BAEK, BONG-SOOK is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions, the workload is decentralized, with no single examiner handling more than 1 matter. This lack of concentration means that the prosecution of each application will be subject to the individual preferences and styles of different examiners.
The use of 4 distinct art units for the pending office actions suggests that the company's technology falls within a relatively narrow range of technical groups at the USPTO. However, the total of distinct examiners still necessitates a broad engagement strategy. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific requirements of each of the 4 distinct art units while navigating the individual examiner relationships.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAEK, BONG-SOOK | 1 | 41.6% | +69.9% |
| MOORE, MARGARET G | 1 | 68.1% | +15.6% |
| BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1 | 76.7% | +30.2% |
| LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 73.0% | +17.0% |
| FORD, NATHAN K | 1 | 32.6% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777264 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR RESHAPING KERATIN-RICH SUBSTRATES AND FORMING ADHERENT FLEXIBLE FILMS | BAEK, BONG-SOOK | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18197150 | N-ALKYL SUBSTITUTED CYCLIC AND OLIGOMERIC PERHYDRIDOSILAZANES, METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF, AND SILICON NITRIDE FILMS FORMED THEREFROM | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 121d overdue |
| 16004621 | Methods and System for the Integrated Synthesis, Delivery, and Processing of Source Chemicals for Thin Film Manufacturing | FORD, NATHAN K | 9d |
| 18777264 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR RESHAPING KERATIN-RICH SUBSTRATES AND FORMING ADHERENT FLEXIBLE FILMS | BAEK, BONG-SOOK | — |
| 18407712 | SILOXANE COMPOSITION FOR LOWER TEMPERATURE ADHESION | MOORE, MARGARET G | — |
| 17990912 | METHOD FOR INDUCING GREATER WETTABILITY OF CONTACT LENS COMPOSITIONS DURING MOLDING | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 2 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18777264 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR RESHAPING KERATIN-RICH SUBSTRATES AND FORMING ADHERENT FLEXIBLE FILMS | BAEK, BONG-SOOK | 1611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18407712 | SILOXANE COMPOSITION FOR LOWER TEMPERATURE ADHESION | MOORE, MARGARET G | 1765 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18197150 | N-ALKYL SUBSTITUTED CYCLIC AND OLIGOMERIC PERHYDRIDOSILAZANES, METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF, AND SILICON NITRIDE FILMS FORMED THEREFROM | BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1623 | §103 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 17990912 | METHOD FOR INDUCING GREATER WETTABILITY OF CONTACT LENS COMPOSITIONS DURING MOLDING | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1765 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 16004621 | Methods and System for the Integrated Synthesis, Delivery, and Processing of Source Chemicals for Thin Film Manufacturing | FORD, NATHAN K | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 11, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialGelest Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Bong-Sook Baek has the most, with 1 of Gelest Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
