Company or institution

INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.

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3,413 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

93%

+18 pts vs the USPTO range 92% to 94%

Rejections before allowance

1.8

+0.2 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

20.7 mo

+2.1 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

31%

+3 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Compared with the office

Against every applicant before the USPTO

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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification2,810 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation76 apps

H04N Pictorial communication, television71 apps

B25J Manipulators, robots67 apps

G16H Healthcare informatics67 apps

A61M Devices for introducing media into the body42 apps

Art units

3771270 apps

3792208 apps

3664201 apps

3731183 apps

OPAP180 apps

3795171 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central186 apps

n/a

Jonathan L Sample55 apps

98%

Ryan N Henderson47 apps

82%

Jaime Figueroa37 apps

100%

Scott Luan37 apps

97%

Aaron F Roane36 apps

91%

Vi X Nguyen34 apps

94%

William B Chou34 apps

90%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

Haynes and Boone, LLP (70228)1,029 apps

94%

Jones Burke, PLLC (w/ Intuitive Surgical)409 apps

97%

Patent Dept. - Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.395 apps

85%

Artegis Law Group, LLP - Intuitive Surgical391 apps

100%

ALG Intellectual Property | ISRG251 apps

96%

SCHWEGMAN LUNDBERG & WOESSNER, P.A./ ISRG188 apps

92%

Intuitive Surgical / Mills IP Law178 apps

99%

FOLEY & LARDNER LLP84 apps

96%

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

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Interviews

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Applications

Every application in the record

Application	Title	Filed	Status	Rejections	RCEs	To 1st action
19884043	USER INTERFACE AND MODEL ARCHITECTURE FOR KNOT TYING VIA ROBOTIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS	2026-10-09	Pending	0	0	n/a
19881700	CAPSTAN ASSEMBLY FOR REMOVAL OF SLACK IN ACTUATION MEMBERS, AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND…	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
19881334	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING AN UMBILICAL IN DELIVERY OF A THERMAL TREATMENT	2026-10-01	Pending	0	0	n/a
15297640	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15174704	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15121315	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15258129	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15534635	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15216260	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15223782	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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