Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hpc Systems Inc. is currently engaged in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, suggesting a very targeted approach to its current patent prosecution efforts. This level of activity indicates that the company is focusing its resources on a specific set of biological or pharmaceutical innovations at this stage of its development.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current filings are being reviewed within a single specialized area of the patent office, which can lead to a more predictable examination experience. NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, representing the primary technical reviewer for the company's applications.
NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company, meaning the prosecution strategy is currently focused on a single point of contact. This simplifies the monitoring of the company's intellectual property development in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector and allows for a direct response to the examiner's findings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | 1 | 55.9% | +34.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17650684 | MOLECULAR STRUCTURE GENERATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17650684 | MOLECULAR STRUCTURE GENERATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17650684 | MOLECULAR STRUCTURE GENERATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | 1686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
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