Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
VELANO VASCULAR, INC. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 examiners and 2 art units, combining examiner diversity with repeated art-unit coverage.
DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner represents the clearest workload concentration, while the other matters require attention across the remaining examiner and art-unit assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 2 | 74.5% | +16.1% |
| ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 1 | 86.7% | +18.2% |
| PATEL, OM | 1 | 58.0% | +52.6% |
| VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 1 | 68.6% | +27.3% |
| VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 1 | 56.3% | +27.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17549569 | Fluid Transfer Devices With Extended Length Catheters and Methods of Using the Same | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 53d overdue |
| 18102306 | Systems and Methods for Phlebotomy Through a Peripheral IV Catheter | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 32d overdue |
| 18967176 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Catheter Device Size | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
| 18229761 | Devices and Methods for Fluid Transfer Through a Placed Peripheral Intravenous Catheter | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17549569 | Fluid Transfer Devices With Extended Length Catheters and Methods of Using the Same | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 53d overdue |
| 18102306 | Systems and Methods for Phlebotomy Through a Peripheral IV Catheter | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 32d overdue |
| 17519968 | Systems and Methods for Phlebotomy Through a Peripheral IV Catheter | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 22d overdue |
| 18967176 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Catheter Device Size | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
| 18424063 | Devices and Methods for Phlebotomy Through a Closed System Intravenous Catheter | PATEL, OM | — |
| 18229761 | Devices and Methods for Fluid Transfer Through a Placed Peripheral Intravenous Catheter | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18967176 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Catheter Device Size | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18424063 | Devices and Methods for Phlebotomy Through a Closed System Intravenous Catheter | PATEL, OM | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18229761 | Devices and Methods for Fluid Transfer Through a Placed Peripheral Intravenous Catheter | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18102306 | Systems and Methods for Phlebotomy Through a Peripheral IV Catheter | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17549569 | Fluid Transfer Devices With Extended Length Catheters and Methods of Using the Same | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
| 17519968 | Systems and Methods for Phlebotomy Through a Peripheral IV Catheter | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Nov 05, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialVELANO VASCULAR, INC. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Sean Patrick Dougherty has the most, with 2 of VELANO VASCULAR, INC.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
