Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Farber LLC - Intuitive has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 1083 career applications. The profile combines a small current docket with a broader firm application history.
The resolved allowance rate is 91.75%, with an average of 4.5 office actions per allowance. These historical measures show a high allowance share but a prosecution path that commonly involved several office actions. The pending matters still require file-level analysis because the firm-wide figures do not determine their individual outcomes.
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 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 2 | 87.7% | +26.6% |
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 54.1% | +8.2% |
| POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 59.6% | +33.2% |
| CHUKWURAH, NATHANIEL C | 1 | 84.9% | +10.9% |
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.8% | +22.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19070366 | Surgical Instruments Having Mechanisms For Identifying And/Or Deactivating Stapler Cartridges | CHUKWURAH, NATHANIEL C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197926 | STAPLE CARTRIDGE FOR A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HODGE, LINDA J | 42d overdue |
| 18601714 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING A REINFORCED STAPLE CARTRIDGE | HODGE, LINDA J | 82d |
| 19480333 | COMPONENTS OF SURGICAL STAPLING INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | FRY, PATRICK B | — |
| 19202037 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR APPLYING MULTIPLE CLIPS | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 18735972 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING A JAW LOCKING MECHANISM | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197926 | STAPLE CARTRIDGE FOR A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HODGE, LINDA J | 42d overdue |
| 18601714 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING A REINFORCED STAPLE CARTRIDGE | HODGE, LINDA J | 82d |
| 19202037 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR APPLYING MULTIPLE CLIPS | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 19070366 | Surgical Instruments Having Mechanisms For Identifying And/Or Deactivating Stapler Cartridges | CHUKWURAH, NATHANIEL C | — |
| 18735972 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING A JAW LOCKING MECHANISM | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC. | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 4 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19480333 | COMPONENTS OF SURGICAL STAPLING INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19202037 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR APPLYING MULTIPLE CLIPS | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19197926 | STAPLE CARTRIDGE FOR A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19070366 | Surgical Instruments Having Mechanisms For Identifying And/Or Deactivating Stapler Cartridges | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | CHUKWURAH, NATHANIEL C | 3731 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 18735972 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING A JAW LOCKING MECHANISM | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18601714 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HAVING A REINFORCED STAPLE CARTRIDGE | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial91.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Farber LLC - Intuitive were allowed, across 1,083 applications in USPTO records.
4.50 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 5 examiners in 3 art units.
