Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hifibio (Hk) Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 distinct examiner indicates that the company's current applications are being reviewed by a specific official. This focus can lead to a more consistent prosecution experience for the applicant.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HEINCER, LIAM J, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action is the matter currently under review. The 1 distinct art unit provides the specific technical context for the examination. Practitioners should focus on the tendencies of the 1 distinct examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. The Chemistry & Materials technology area is the primary field for the 1 pending office action, which represents the company's current active workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRODUCING HYDROGEL MICROSPHERES | HEINCER, LIAM J | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17917988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PRODUCING HYDROGEL MICROSPHERES | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
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