Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Government Of The Usa AS Represented By The Secretary Of The Department Of Health And Human Serv maintains a highly concentrated patent portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Currently, the entity has 1 pending office action, which is being handled within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very narrow focus for its current prosecution activity, suggesting that the entity is pursuing a specific technical niche rather than a broad array of innovations.
CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, also accounting for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because all activity is localized under 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy appears singular and centralized. This lack of examiner diversity means that the outcome of the pending action will define the current success of the portfolio at the patent office.
For practitioners, this concentrated structure implies that the entirety of the entity's current interaction with the patent office relies on the discretion of a single individual. Success in this environment requires a deep understanding of the specific examiner's past decisions and preferences. The singular nature of the docket simplifies tracking but increases the impact of any single procedural hurdle encountered during prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 80.7% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16995669 | DIRECT READING DETECTION KITS FOR SURFACE CONTAMINATION BY ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUGS | CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16995669 | DIRECT READING DETECTION KITS FOR SURFACE CONTAMINATION BY ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUGS | CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16995669 | DIRECT READING DETECTION KITS FOR SURFACE CONTAMINATION BY ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUGS | CHIN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1677 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialThe Government Of The Usa AS Represented By The Secretary Of The Department Of Health And Human Serv has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher L Chin has the most, with 1 of The Government Of The Usa AS Represented By The Secretary Of The Department Of Health And Human Serv's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
