Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gelest Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 6 actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, which indicates that the portfolio's technical subject matter is reviewed by multiple specialized groups at the USPTO. The company is working with 6 distinct examiners, matching the total count of pending office actions currently under review.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BAEK, BONG-SOOK, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 6, this busiest examiner handles a minority of the active cases. Practitioners should prepare for 6 different examination styles, as each of the 6 pending actions is assigned to a different individual. The 4 distinct art units represent the organizational structure for these 6 pending office actions, suggesting that the examiners may apply different technical standards depending on their specific art unit assignment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 4 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 | 41.7% | +69.9% |
| MOORE, MARGARET G | 1 | 68.0% | +15.2% |
| BAKSHI, PANCHAM | 1 | 76.8% | +30.2% |
| CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 1 | 72.1% | +20.6% |
| LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 73.3% | +16.8% |
| FORD, NATHAN K | 1 | 32.8% | +35.4% |
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 6 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1765 | 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18407712 | SILOXANE COMPOSITION FOR LOWER TEMPERATURE ADHESION | MOORE, MARGARET G | — | §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 |
| 18088843 | AZASTANNATRANES, STANNATRANES, AND METHODS OF PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF | CHACKO DAVIS, DABORAH | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 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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