Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
MAKO SURGICAL CORP. has 7 pending office actions, involving 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Each listed action has a distinct examiner, while the art-unit total indicates that one unit handles multiple matters.
WINDSOR, COURTNEY J is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate across 6 art units while maintaining separate examiner-specific responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 1 | 86.3% | +9.0% |
| DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
| RINK, RYAN J | 1 | 78.6% | +10.7% |
| STONE, RACHAEL SOJIN | 1 | 55.2% | +21.0% |
| KHATTAR, RAJESH | 1 | 36.9% | +35.6% |
| HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 21.4% | +30.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18145504 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURE ERGONOMICS | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 51d overdue |
| 19095683 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR BONE BALANCE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON LIGAMENT LAXITY | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | — |
| 19032768 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY AND PARTIAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES | DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | — |
| 18589719 | SURGICAL PROCEDURE PLANNING SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE FEEDBACK LOOPS | STONE, RACHAEL SOJIN | — |
| 18338102 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING SURGICAL TIME AND OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND OUTCOMES | KHATTAR, RAJESH | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18145504 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURE ERGONOMICS | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 51d overdue |
| 18768448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GUIDANCE FOR A ROBOTIC MEDICAL PROCEDURE | RINK, RYAN J | 23d overdue |
| 19032768 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY AND PARTIAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES | DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | — |
| 18589719 | SURGICAL PROCEDURE PLANNING SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE FEEDBACK LOOPS | STONE, RACHAEL SOJIN | — |
| 18338102 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING SURGICAL TIME AND OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND OUTCOMES | KHATTAR, RAJESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3684 | 2 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095683 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR BONE BALANCE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON LIGAMENT LAXITY | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 2661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19032768 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY AND PARTIAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES | DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | 2662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18768448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GUIDANCE FOR A ROBOTIC MEDICAL PROCEDURE | RINK, RYAN J | 3619 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18589719 | SURGICAL PROCEDURE PLANNING SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE FEEDBACK LOOPS | STONE, RACHAEL SOJIN | 3681 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18338102 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING SURGICAL TIME AND OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND OUTCOMES | KHATTAR, RAJESH | 3684 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18145504 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURE ERGONOMICS | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 3684 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMAKO SURGICAL CORP. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Courtney J Windsor has the most, with 1 of MAKO SURGICAL CORP.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
