Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Gelest Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BAKSHI, PANCHAM 1 77.0% +30.1%
CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH 1 71.7% +20.6%
KASSA, TIGABU 1 36.5% +28.6%
FORD, NATHAN K 1 32.6% +35.6%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18197150 N-ALKYL SUBSTITUTED CYCLIC AND OLIGOMERIC PERHYDRIDOSILAZANES, METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF, AND SILICON NITRIDE FILMS FORMED THEREFROM BAKSHI, PANCHAM 121d overdue
18088843 AZASTANNATRANES, STANNATRANES, AND METHODS OF PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH 5d
16004621 Methods and System for the Integrated Synthesis, Delivery, and Processing of Source Chemicals for Thin Film Manufacturing FORD, NATHAN K 9d
17555908 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HAIR KASSA, TIGABU 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1623 1
1737 1
1619 1
1716 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18197150 N-ALKYL SUBSTITUTED CYCLIC AND OLIGOMERIC PERHYDRIDOSILAZANES, METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF, AND SILICON NITRIDE FILMS FORMED THEREFROM BAKSHI, PANCHAM 1623 §102 Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending May 15, 2023
18088843 AZASTANNATRANES, STANNATRANES, AND METHODS OF PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH 1737 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Dec 27, 2022
17555908 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HAIR KASSA, TIGABU 1619 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Dec 20, 2021
16004621 Methods and System for the Integrated Synthesis, Delivery, and Processing of Source Chemicals for Thin Film Manufacturing FORD, NATHAN K 1716 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 11, 2018

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