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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.

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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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Eight side-by-side metrics: case volume, pendency, OAs per reexam, rejection mix, SNQ denial rate, certification rate, and PTAB appeal rate, with a Δ column showing where this examiner runs higher or lower than the corpus.

  • Average and median pendency, both for this examiner and the corpus
  • 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, from 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

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Certificate outcome distribution

Event-to-event timing (median)

Recent reexaminations (18)

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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
90/012,452Aug 24, 20126,153,096SHROUD FOR BOTTLE MOUNTED FILTERS24 moClosed
90/012,453Aug 24, 20125,609,759BOTTLE FILTER CAP32 moClosed
90/012,094Jan 13, 20125,869,172INTERNALLY-COATED POROUS WEBS WITH CONTROLLED POSITIONING OF MODIFIERS THEREIN30 moClosed

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