Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Spiber Inc.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)
No statute on record2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

6
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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DESAI, ANAND U 1 78.9% +12.2%
KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1 58.8% +63.7%
BLAND, ALICIA 1 49.8% +11.6%
NGUYEN, THANH H 1 18.7% +36.1%
SALVATORE, LYNDA 1 63.9% +19.2%
SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN 1 38.5% +63.3%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17795749 Meat Substitute Composition NGUYEN, THANH H 119d overdue

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
17926369 Method for Preparing Combinatorial Library of Multi-Modular Biosynthetic Enzyme Gene KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 176d overdue
17795749 Meat Substitute Composition NGUYEN, THANH H 119d overdue
17622272 Artificial Fur and Method for Manufacturing Same SALVATORE, LYNDA 59d overdue
17280125 Protein Composition Production Method SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN 38d overdue
17911296 Synthetic Polymer and Method for Producing Same, Molding Material, and Molded Body BLAND, ALICIA 6d
18482262 Highly Contracted Synthetic Fibroin Fiber, Production Method Therefor, and Method for Contracting Synthetic Fibroin Fiber DESAI, ANAND U 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1655 1
1635 1
1759 1
1792 1
1789 1
1656 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18482262 Highly Contracted Synthetic Fibroin Fiber, Production Method Therefor, and Method for Contracting Synthetic Fibroin Fiber DESAI, ANAND U 1655 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Oct 06, 2023
17926369 Method for Preparing Combinatorial Library of Multi-Modular Biosynthetic Enzyme Gene KONOPKA, CATHERINE ANNE 1635 Other Non-Final OA 176d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
17911296 Synthetic Polymer and Method for Producing Same, Molding Material, and Molded Body BLAND, ALICIA 1759 Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Sep 13, 2022
17795749 Meat Substitute Composition NGUYEN, THANH H 1792 §103 Final Rejection 119d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2022
17622272 Artificial Fur and Method for Manufacturing Same SALVATORE, LYNDA 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021
17280125 Protein Composition Production Method SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN 1656 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2021

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