Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BURLESON, MICHAEL L

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2625 2672 2673 2675 2681 2683

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

74.6%
Allow Rate
+12.6% vs TC avg
525
Total Applications
-6.1%
Interview Lift
1056
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 489 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.1%
§101 Eligibility
21.8%
§102 Novelty
55.2%
§103 Obviousness
8.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18174899 AUTOMATED REMOTE VERIFICATION OF A DOCUMENT Final Rejection Truist Bank
17389998 LABEL APPLICATION SYSTEM WITH A LABEL PRINTER ATTACHABLE TO A ROBOTIC ARM Final Rejection Zebra Technologies Corporation
17851279 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18173733 MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
17856281 MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE Non-Final OA PFU Limited
18605210 SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND DEVICE Non-Final OA SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
18304330 MEDICAL IMAGING ANALYSIS USING SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING Final Rejection Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
18540508 Aggregating and/or Personalizing Camera Feeds Non-Final OA Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
17663785 MACHINE LEARNING BASED MULTIPAGE SCANNING Non-Final OA ADOBE INC.
17152456 IMAGE BASED MEASUREMENT ESTIMATION Non-Final OA Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
18474068 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM UNSTRUCTURED IMAGE DOCUMENTS Non-Final OA Ushur, Inc.
18350072 SURGICAL WORKFLOW VISUALIZATION AS DEVIATIONS TO A STANDARD Non-Final OA DIGITAL SURGERY LIMITED
18567357 METHOD FOR CALCULATING LENGTH OF CRACK LINE BY USING CONTINUOUSLY CAPTURED IMAGES OF CRACK LINE IN BUILDING SUBJECT TO SAFETY DIAGNOSIS, AND WORKER TERMINAL HAVING INSTALLED THEREON PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING METHOD FOR CALCULATING LENGTH OF CRACK LINE BY USING CONTINUOUSLY CAPTURED IMAGES OF CRACK LINE IN BUILDING SUBJECT TO SAFETY DIAGNOSIS Non-Final OA HANSTYLE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
18552913 METHOD OF NON-INVASIVE MEDICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING WITH UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION Non-Final OA FRONTWAVE IMAGING, S.L.
18342000 COLLECTING IMAGES AND METADATA OF FAKE IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS IN DATABASE AND PROVIDING ACCESS THERETO BY OTHER ENTITIES FOR VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA Servall Data Systems Inc.
18258747 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DENTAL IMAGE ACQUISITION AND RECOGNITION OF EARLY ENAMEL EROSIONS OF THE TEETH Final Rejection HALEON US Holdings LLC
17962612 BOT PROCESSING AUTOMATION USING KNOWLEDGE BASE IN CONTEXTUAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA Waterlabs AI LLC

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