Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Jones Burke, Pllc

13 pending office actions • 3 clients • 4 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=402 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.3%
Allowance Rate
n=402
+0.67σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=402
3.6
OAs to Allowance
n=249
-0.15σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=249
1143 days
Time to Allowance
n=249
+4.6pp
Interview Lift
n=402
35.3%
RCE Rate
n=402
0.5%
Appeal Rate
n=402

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=11 (min 20)
73.3%
§102 Overcome
n=45
82.3%
§103 Overcome
n=186
80.4%
§112 Overcome
n=46

Specialization & Scale

A61B, A61K, G01N
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=402
0
Practitioners
n=402
Apps / Practitioner
n=402 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (85%)
2
Easy (15%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (54%)
§102 only4 (31%)
§112 only1 (8%)
Double-patenting only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
13
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AKAR, SERKAN 10 65.7% +33.4%
TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA 1 56.8% +29.9%
TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J 1 69.7% +32.5%
TRUONG, MILTON LARSON 1 60.8% +42.1%

Interview Candidates (13)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19025073 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR WOUND IMAGING AND MONITORING AKAR, SERKAN 36d overdue
19027145 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR WOUND IMAGING AND MONITORING AKAR, SERKAN 30d overdue
19028009 DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING BACTERIA BASED ON FLUORESCENCE SIGNATURE AKAR, SERKAN 30d overdue
19024995 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR WOUND IMAGING AND MONITORING AKAR, SERKAN 8d overdue
19075323 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-MODAL IMAGING AND ANALYSIS TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA 5d
18647718 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR THERMAL IMAGING AKAR, SERKAN 6d
18662583 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF BACTERIA AND RELATED METHODS AKAR, SERKAN 8d
18662750 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF BACTERIA AND RELATED METHODS AKAR, SERKAN 14d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK 10
MolecuLight 2
Heliopolis 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
379711
36781
37981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19081680 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FLUORESCENCE IMAGING AND COLLECTION OF DATA FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 17, 2025
19075323 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-MODAL IMAGING AND ANALYSIS Moleculight Inc. TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA 3797 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Mar 10, 2025
19027145 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR WOUND IMAGING AND MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §102 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
19028009 DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING BACTERIA BASED ON FLUORESCENCE SIGNATURE UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §102 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
19025073 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR WOUND IMAGING AND MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
19024995 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR WOUND IMAGING AND MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
19025446 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR WOUND IMAGING AND MONITORING UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 DP Final Rejection 82d Pending Jan 16, 2025
18662583 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF BACTERIA AND RELATED METHODS UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 13, 2024
18662750 PORTABLE IMAGING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF BACTERIA AND RELATED METHODS UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 13, 2024
18647718 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR THERMAL IMAGING Moleculight Inc. AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18685733 UNDERWATER DOCKING STATION Heliopolis Holdings Limited TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J 3678 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2024
17407870 Devices, Methods, and Systems for Fluorescence-Based Imaging and Collection of Data for Food Safety Purposes UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK AKAR, SERKAN 3797 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Aug 20, 2021
16966293 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TUMOR VISUALIZATION AND REMOVAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK TRUONG, MILTON LARSON 3798 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jul 30, 2020

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