Office Action Analysis
Independent review of rejections, objections, cited references, examiner reasoning, and the strengths and weaknesses of potential response approaches.
Patent Services
Patent Consulting
Independent analysis and strategy for patent-prosecution questions when you want an experienced second set of eyes without necessarily asking HPC to prepare or file the underlying application, response, or appeal paper.
Independent Analysis
Focused analysis of difficult prosecution issues
Consulting is appropriate when analysis, review, or strategy is itself the requested deliverable and the client or another practitioner will handle the resulting filing or response.
Claim & Amendment Strategy
Review of claim scope, proposed amendments, prosecution positioning, and whether a contemplated amendment addresses the actual examination issue.
Appeal & Pre-Appeal Strategy
Assessment of whether the record and issues are suited for continued prosecution, pre-appeal review, or appeal.
Prosecution-History Review
Review of the application record to identify how earlier amendments, arguments, examiner positions, and procedural events affect the present posture.
Rejection & Reference Review
Evaluation of cited art, claim interpretation, combinations, factual findings, and the reasoning used to support a rejection.
Other Prosecution Strategy
Focused consultation on patent-prosecution issues where an independent examiner-perspective assessment would help inform the next decision.
Consulting Rate
Hourly pricing for analysis and strategy
Patent-Prosecution Consulting
$325/hour
Consulting is billed for the time actually spent on the agreed analysis, strategy, review, conference, or related consulting work.
Who Uses Consulting
Independent analysis without transferring the underlying work
Patent Attorneys & Agents
For independent review, strategy discussion, or an examiner-perspective check before committing to a prosecution approach.
Law Firms
For difficult matters, internal second review, overflow analysis, or focused consultation while the firm retains the underlying client work.
Companies
For independent review of pending prosecution issues, evaluation of outside-counsel recommendations, or strategy questions affecting multiple applications.
Inventors & Applicants
For focused analysis when the client wants to understand a prosecution issue or obtain an independent view of the present record.
Analysis can be the entire engagement
Unlike an Office Action response engagement, consulting does not assume that HPC will prepare the filing after the analysis. The analysis, strategy, or review itself is the professional service being requested.
If the matter later changes and HPC is asked to undertake substantive preparation or filing work, the new scope is addressed separately.
Need an independent view of a prosecution issue?
Start with the free 30-minute consultation. HPC can determine whether the matter is best handled as consulting, full substantive service, or supplied-work review.