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Examiner Malamud Deborah L

3792-MALAMUD-DEBORAH-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:3792 — Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Group:3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
Classes: 600 — Surgery
607 — Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
606 — Surgery
604 — Surgery
726 — Information security
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
Phone:(571) 272-2106
Email:deborah.malamud@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Biomedical Engrg
Service:21 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

61
3-Year Grant rate: 70% over 247 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 61st

With Examiner Malamud, you have a 70% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Malamud is a harder examiner and in the 61st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Malamud, where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.

Comparison with Art Unit 3792

Examiner Malamud's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3792 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Malamud 2.7
Art Unit 3792 1.7

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Malamud has granted 95 of 139 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 68%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Malamud has granted 78 of 108 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 72%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Malamud, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 6%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
19260226 Vagal Nerve Stimulation Devices And Methods Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
19266246 Devices And Methods For Nerve Stimulation Patented View
18462156 Systems And Methods Of Deduplicating Data Collected By An Implantable Medical Device Patented View
17765836 Bipolar Mapping Suction Device Patented View
17742741 Non-Invasive Prediction Of Risk For Sudden Cardiac Death Patented View
18548655 Self-Closing System Abandoned View
17891533 Methods And Systems For Engineering Cardiac Waveform Features From Biophysical Signals For Use In Characterizing Physiological Systems Patented View
16860594 Suction Detection Methods And Devices Abandoned View
17251239 Apparatus And Method For Detection Of Physiological Events Abandoned View
18067073 Enhanced Pulse Oximetry Systems And Methods For The Diagnoses Of Sleep-Associated Breathing Disorders Patented View
15926113 Non-Continuous Electrical Stimulation Therapy Patented View
18312983 Method, Apparatus And Program For Calculating Disease Risk Based On Heart Rate Measurement Abandoned View
18030721 Clot Retrieval System Abandoned View
17766242 Non-Contact Cardiogram Measurement Method Abandoned View
17527988 Heat-Stress Effect Estimating Device, Heat-Stress Effect Estimating Method, And Computer Program Abandoned View
18514491 Near Infrared Light In Hearing Aid Appliances Patented View
17817216 Biased Neuromodulation Lead And Method Of Using Same Patented View
17546168 Sensor Systems And Methods For Characterizing Health Conditions Patented View
18743538 Systems And Methods For Calibrating Sound Delivery To A Hearing System Recipient Patented View
17999262 System And Method For Detecting Coughs From Sensor Data Abandoned View
18642364 Methods And Systems For Neural Stimulation Via Visual, Auditory And Peripheral Nerve Stimulations Patented View
17272603 Data Processing System For Generating Predictions Of Cognitive Outcome In Patients Patented View
18608281 Heart Rate Measurement Using Adaptive Harmonics Filtering Patented View
17871191 Power Circuit And Automated External Defibrillator Comprising The Same Patented View
17626319 Epidural Stimulation And Spinal Structure Locating Techniques Patented View
17683641 Monitoring Device And Physiological Signal Processing Device Patented View
18984845 Wearable Device With Light Source And Optical Sensor Patented View
17940772 On-Ear Detection Patented View
18423717 Stimulation Suspension In Response To Patient Discomfort Or State Patented View
18508727 Automatic Cardiac Therapy Advisor With Hidden Markov Model Processing Abandoned View
17143474 Disturbance Detection And Removal In Cardiac Signals Patented View
16919975 Methods And Systems For Neural Stimulation Via Visual, Auditory And Peripheral Nerve Stimulations Patented View
18639196 External Drive Unit For An Implantable Heart Assist Pump Patented View
18779141 Vagal Nerve Stimulation Patented View
17812660 Interpolation Methods For Neural Responses Patented View
18312362 Mobile Electrocardiogram System Patented View
17617460 Electrocardiogram Signal Segmentation Patented View
18960398 Devices And Methods For Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation Patented View
18622294 Therapy Program Modification Based On A Therapy Field Model Abandoned View
17625493 Wearable Biophotonic Systems Abandoned View
18413464 Neural Sleeve For Neuromuscular Stimulation, Sensing And Recording Patented View
16603526 External Drive Unit For An Implantable Heart Assist Pump Patented View
17671357 Breast Implant And Apparatus For Sensing Abnormality Of The Same Patented View
17670156 Instrument For A Robotic Surgery System Abandoned View
17523276 Detecting Or Validating A Detection Of A State Change From A Template Of Heart Rate Derivative Shape Or Heart Beat Wave Complex Patented View
18388659 Apparatus And Methods For Improving Sensory Nerve Sensitivity Patented View
17637264 Blood Pump Patented View
18225095 Methods And Systems For Electromagnetic Near-Field Coherent Sensing Patented View
16762867 Bio-Signal Detection Patented View
17076327 Method And System For Filtering Noise Of An Implantable Medical Device Patented View

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