Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
22 pending office actions • 16 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 75 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mako Surgical Corp. has 22 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 21 examiners and 15 art units, showing broad examiner dispersion with some repeated technical classifications.
KU, SI MING is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment supports focused monitoring for a small portion of the portfolio. The wider record calls for coordinated art-unit and application tracking rather than reliance on one examiner relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (32%) |
| §102 only | 4 (18%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KU, SI MING | 2 | 72.8% | +32.8% |
| MALDONADO, STEVEN | 1 | 26.9% | +42.9% |
| EVANS, KARSTON G | 1 | 69.8% | +16.8% |
| WEBER, TAMARA L | 1 | 87.3% | +11.9% |
| TANG, BRYANT | 1 | 86.1% | +0.2% |
| DUNHAM, JASON B | 1 | 26.8% | +27.3% |
| FIGUEROA, JAIME | 1 | 85.4% | +13.1% |
| ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | 1 | 68.5% | +31.2% |
| WERNER, DAVID N | 1 | 68.4% | +16.1% |
| CHEN, BIAO | 1 | 85.4% | +28.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19298376 | Trackable Protective Packaging For Tools And Methods For Calibrating Tool Installation Using The Same | WEBER, TAMARA L | — |
| 19252325 | ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM FOR AUGMENTED ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES | TANG, BRYANT | — |
| 19032835 | Automated Determination Of Bone Mineral Density From A Medical Image | CHEN, BIAO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19452933 | Tracker-Based Surgical Navigation | MALDONADO, STEVEN | — |
| 19221598 | Surgical Operating Room Setup Involving Head-Mounted Device | DUNHAM, JASON B | — |
| 19188452 | System And Method For Aligning An End Effector To A Haptic Object | FIGUEROA, JAIME | — |
| 19085568 | Evaluation Of Surgical Instrument Usage Using Sensed Magnetism | ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | — |
| 19021917 | INTEGRATED ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 18985517 | Tracker For Magnetically Coupling To Robotic Guide Tube | KUO, JONATHAN T | — |
| 18237182 | SURGICAL SYSTEM WITH WORKFLOW MONITORING | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | — |
| 18135280 | Systems And Methods For Guided Placement Of A Robotic Manipulator | CHIN, JAMES BRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19452933 | Tracker-Based Surgical Navigation | MALDONADO, STEVEN | — |
| 19339378 | Techniques For Estimating Deflection Of A Surgical Robotic Arm | EVANS, KARSTON G | — |
| 19298376 | Trackable Protective Packaging For Tools And Methods For Calibrating Tool Installation Using The Same | WEBER, TAMARA L | — |
| 19240226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL SAW BLADE CUTTING ON HARD TISSUE | KU, SI MING | — |
| 19221598 | Surgical Operating Room Setup Involving Head-Mounted Device | DUNHAM, JASON B | — |
| 19188452 | System And Method For Aligning An End Effector To A Haptic Object | FIGUEROA, JAIME | — |
| 19085568 | Evaluation Of Surgical Instrument Usage Using Sensed Magnetism | ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | — |
| 19034736 | Systems And Methods For Tracking Objects | WERNER, DAVID N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 4 |
| 3657 | 2 |
| 3656 | 2 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19452933 | Tracker-Based Surgical Navigation | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2026 |
| 19339378 | Techniques For Estimating Deflection Of A Surgical Robotic Arm | EVANS, KARSTON G | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19298376 | Trackable Protective Packaging For Tools And Methods For Calibrating Tool Installation Using The Same | WEBER, TAMARA L | 3667 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19252325 | ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM FOR AUGMENTED ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES | TANG, BRYANT | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19240226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL SAW BLADE CUTTING ON HARD TISSUE | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19221598 | Surgical Operating Room Setup Involving Head-Mounted Device | DUNHAM, JASON B | 3686 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19188452 | System And Method For Aligning An End Effector To A Haptic Object | FIGUEROA, JAIME | 3656 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19085568 | Evaluation Of Surgical Instrument Usage Using Sensed Magnetism | ANTHONY, MARIA CATHERINE | 3775 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19034736 | Systems And Methods For Tracking Objects | WERNER, DAVID N | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19032835 | Automated Determination Of Bone Mineral Density From A Medical Image | CHEN, BIAO | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19021917 | INTEGRATED ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19018759 | MOTORIZED JOINT POSITIONER | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 78d | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18985517 | Tracker For Magnetically Coupling To Robotic Guide Tube | KUO, JONATHAN T | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18925136 | Techniques For Detecting Errors Or Loss Of Accuracy In A Surgical Robotic System | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §102 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18903240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLANTATION OF SPINAL PLATE | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18734863 | Assembly And Method For Mounting A Tracker To Bone | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18657856 | Robotic Systems And Methods For Manipulating A Cutting Guide For A Surgical Instrument | JONES, DIANA S | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18512400 | SURGICAL SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED IMPLANT PLANNING | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18237182 | SURGICAL SYSTEM WITH WORKFLOW MONITORING | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18135280 | Systems And Methods For Guided Placement Of A Robotic Manipulator | CHIN, JAMES BRIAN | 3656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 18082996 | Robotic Systems, Methods And Software Programs For Modifying Tool Operation Based On Tissue Parameters | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17828488 | IMPLANT PLANNING AND GUIDANCE WITH SOFT TISSUE ASSESSMENT | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1631 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMako Surgical Corp. has 22 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 21 examiners.
Si Ming Ku has the most, with 2 of Mako Surgical Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
