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
Apha Biomat operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, WHITE, KIA XIONG. This concentration of activity suggests that the company is focusing its current legal resources on 1 patent application.
The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. WHITE, KIA XIONG is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the total current pending workload for Apha Biomat across all art units and examiners. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution environment is specific, requiring a focus on the preferences of 1 examiner and the technical nuances of 1 art unit. The data does not show any other active matters, indicating a targeted and narrow prosecution footprint in the medical device sector at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, KIA XIONG | 1 | 67.3% | +42.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570730 | BIOLOGICAL PROSTHESIS INTENDED FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NIPPLE-AREOLA COMPLEX | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570730 | BIOLOGICAL PROSTHESIS INTENDED FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NIPPLE-AREOLA COMPLEX | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18570730 | BIOLOGICAL PROSTHESIS INTENDED FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NIPPLE-AREOLA COMPLEX | WHITE, KIA XIONG | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialApha Biomat has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kia Xiong White has the most, with 1 of Apha Biomat's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
