Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hifibio (Hk) Limited has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing separate prosecution channels within the portfolio.
COOK, LISA V is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner handles only one matter, counsel may need distinct response strategies for each examiner and art unit rather than a single portfolio-wide approach.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, LISA V | 1 | 67.5% | +10.3% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | 88.2% | +9.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917991 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR FLUORESCENCE DETECTION | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18002114 | Methods For Identification of Cognate Pairs of Ligands and Receptors | COOK, LISA V | 28d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRODUCING HYDROGEL MICROSPHERES | HEINCER, LIAM J | 19d overdue |
| 18002114 | Methods For Identification of Cognate Pairs of Ligands and Receptors | COOK, LISA V | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1641 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18002114 | Methods For Identification of Cognate Pairs of Ligands and Receptors | COOK, LISA V | 1641 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17917988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRODUCING HYDROGEL MICROSPHERES | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
| 17917991 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR FLUORESCENCE DETECTION | STAFIRA, MICHAEL PATRICK | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHifibio (Hk) Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Lisa V Cook has the most, with 1 of Hifibio (Hk) Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
