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Carlos N Lopez

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2022

Carlos N Lopez is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 18 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2022. These reexams concentrate in Mechanical & Manufacturing, Chemistry & Materials, and Life Sciences & Consumer. ExamPat indexes the full prosecution record for each of these cases, including office-action grounds, certificate outcomes, and downstream PTAB and federal-circuit decisions.

Filings by year

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Technology mix

Mechanical & Manufacturing6 (33%)
Chemistry & Materials4 (22%)
Life Sciences & Consumer3 (17%)
Mechanical Engineering2 (11%)
Textiles & Paper2 (11%)
Physics & Instruments1 (6%)

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  • Rejection basis split (102 / 103 / 112) head-to-head
  • Certification, SNQ denial, and PTAB appeal rates

Certificate outcome distribution

How this examiner's certificates split across the six possible outcomes: all claims confirmed, confirmed with amendment, confirmed with new claims, mixed, or all claims canceled. Includes share comparison to the corpus distribution.

  • Count and share for each of the six outcome buckets
  • Δ vs. corpus distribution in percentage points
  • Useful for setting realistic patent-owner expectations

Event-to-event timing

Median time for this examiner's cases at each prosecution stage — filing to first office action, filing to NIRC, and filing to certificate — with corpus comparison and sample size.

  • Median in months per transition
  • Side-by-side with the corpus median
  • n column showing how many of this examiner's cases completed each transition

Recent reexaminations (18)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/015,030May 17, 202210,806,285APPARATUS TO PREVENT CURLING OF A RUG CORNER10 moClosed
90/014,498Apr 17, 202010,231,948METERED DOSE INHALER COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS13 moClosed
90/020,127Apr 2, 201910,222,124STAVE WITH EXTERNAL MANIFORD16 moClosed
90/014,134May 3, 20189,719,210CONTINUOUS METHOD FOR THE PRECIPITATION OF LIGNIN FROM BLACK LIQUOR10 moClosed
90/014,133May 3, 20189,139,606CONTINUOUS METHOD FOR THE PRECIPITATION OF LIGNIN FROM BLACK LIQUOR16 moClosed
90/014,039Oct 27, 20178,603,610Edge Trim for Pieces of Furniture18 moClosed
90/013,742May 11, 20168,779,165Fluorescent ion indicators and their applictions15 moClosed
90/013,700Mar 17, 20168,652,630FOAM PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME8 moClosed
90/013,466Mar 11, 20157,131,367HYDRAULIC BOLT BUFFER FOR FIREARM11 moClosed
90/013,117Feb 14, 20147,968,660POLYMER-BASED COMPOSITES COMPRISING CARBON NANOTUBES AS A FILLER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID COMPOSITES, AND ASSOCIATED USES11 moClosed
90/013,062Nov 21, 20135,876,792METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED PLACEMENT OF A PLOYMER COMPOSITION INTO A WEB11 moClosed
90/013,056Nov 13, 20136,896,844Process for Gas Assisted and Water Assisted Injection Molding12 moClosed
90/012,914Jul 3, 20136,129,978POROUS WEBS HAVING A POLYMER COMPOSITION CONTROLLABLY PLACED THEREIN25 moClosed
90/012,811Mar 20, 20136,896,844Process for Gas Assisted and Water Assisted Injection Molding20 moClosed
90/012,482Sep 10, 20125,261,972PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GRAIN-ORIENTED ELECTRICAL STEEL STRIP HAVING HIGH MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY15 moClosed
90/012,453Aug 24, 20125,609,759BOTTLE FILTER CAP32 moClosed
90/012,452Aug 24, 20126,153,096SHROUD FOR BOTTLE MOUNTED FILTERS24 moClosed
90/012,094Jan 13, 20125,869,172INTERNALLY-COATED POROUS WEBS WITH CONTROLLED POSITIONING OF MODIFIERS THEREIN30 moClosed

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