Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alpfa Medical, Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly centralized prosecution effort. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent activity is focused within a specific technical domain of the medical devices sector.
The busiest examiner for Alpfa Medical, Inc. is HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved in the entire portfolio, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions with this specific individual. Practitioners should note that the lack of diversity in examiners and art units means there are no alternative prosecution tracks currently active.
The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit creates a streamlined prosecution environment. Practitioners can focus resources on the specific requirements of HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES without the complexity of navigating multiple examiner preferences. This singular focus is characteristic of the current Alpfa Medical, Inc. portfolio structure within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.7% | +22.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19213905 | APPARATUSES FOR PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD ABLATION THERAPY INCLUDING EXPANDABLE ELECTRODES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19213905 | APPARATUSES FOR PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD ABLATION THERAPY INCLUDING EXPANDABLE ELECTRODES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19213905 | APPARATUSES FOR PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD ABLATION THERAPY INCLUDING EXPANDABLE ELECTRODES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
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