Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maduro Discovery LLC has 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 8 actions are assigned to 8 distinct examiners. These matters are spread across 3 distinct art units.
YABUT, DIANE D is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 8 total pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that each examiner manages exactly 1 case. The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated across 3 different technical classifications. Practitioners must manage 8 different examiners across these 3 art units, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific requirements of each technical group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (89%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.4% | +30.9% |
| YABUT, DIANE D | 1 | 62.5% | +27.9% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
| BRUTUS, JOEL F | 1 | 72.8% | +17.7% |
| MENDEZ, MANUEL A | 1 | 86.0% | +8.5% |
| DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 1 | 76.9% | +26.4% |
| RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 1 | 65.4% | +34.5% |
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.1% | +49.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590542 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 103d overdue |
| 19364715 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | DARB, HAMZA A. | 40d |
| 19050811 | ACCESSORY DEVICE TO PROVIDE NEUROPROTECTION DURING INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| 18817892 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — |
| 18679959 | DIRECTIONAL TIPPED CATHETERS | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | — |
| 18586076 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR NAVIGATING CATHETERS | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | — |
| 18457142 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18361237 | SLOTTED LINERS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590542 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 103d overdue |
| 19364715 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | DARB, HAMZA A. | 40d |
| 19214982 | ADJUSTABLE LENGTH MEDICAL DEVICES | YABUT, DIANE D | — |
| 19050811 | ACCESSORY DEVICE TO PROVIDE NEUROPROTECTION DURING INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| 18817892 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — |
| 18586076 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR NAVIGATING CATHETERS | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | — |
| 18457142 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18361237 | SLOTTED LINERS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19364715 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19214982 | ADJUSTABLE LENGTH MEDICAL DEVICES | YABUT, DIANE D | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19050811 | ACCESSORY DEVICE TO PROVIDE NEUROPROTECTION DURING INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18817892 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18679959 | DIRECTIONAL TIPPED CATHETERS | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18590542 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18586076 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR NAVIGATING CATHETERS | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18457142 | CATHETER CONSTRUCTION | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18361237 | SLOTTED LINERS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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