David Owen Reip

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2022

David Owen Reip is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 16 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2022. These reexams concentrate in Life Sciences & Consumer, Mechanical Engineering, and Mechanical & Manufacturing. 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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12
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22

Technology mix

Life Sciences & Consumer8 (50%)
Mechanical Engineering3 (19%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing3 (19%)
Construction & Mining2 (13%)

Compare against all examiners

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 (16)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/015,049Jun 8, 202210,809,043CARTRIDGE CASE HAVING A NECK WITH INCREASED THICKNESS10 moClosed
90/015,013Apr 22, 20229,463,911DRINK BOTTLES17 moClosed
90/014,964Feb 24, 20228,448,786CATHETER TRAY, PACKAGING SYSTEM, INSTRUCTION INSERT, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS14 moClosed
90/014,852Sep 7, 20219,661,933Intensive Use Bed26 moClosed
90/014,774Jun 15, 202110,443,274LOCKING ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRONIC TABLET AND OTHER DEVICES6 moClosed
90/014,757May 26, 202110,704,299LOCKING ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRONIC TABLET AND OTHER DEVICES7 moClosed
90/014,674Feb 10, 202110,786,062SELF-INKING EYELINER PEN AND STAMP28 moClosed
90/014,555Jul 29, 20207,547,289SHOULDER EXTENSION CONTROL DEVICE15 moClosed
90/014,516May 26, 20209,661,933Intensive Use Bed40 moClosed
90/014,464Feb 25, 20207,684,694APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING A CAMERA AND METHOD FOR USING THE APPARATUS9 moClosed
90/014,429Jan 3, 20207,827,887RATCHET WRENCH10 moClosed
90/020,065Dec 24, 20137,581,565TEAR CORD FOR JACKETED TUBE17 moClosed
90/012,731Dec 5, 20127,431,737System and Method for Motion-Controlled Foot Unit12 moClosed
90/012,732Dec 5, 20127,896,927Systems and Methods for Actuating a Prosthetic Ankle Based on a Relaxed Postion17 moClosed
90/012,168Apr 29, 20126,214,012METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING MATERIAL TO A DESIRED LOCATION18 moClosed
90/012,169Mar 9, 20126,048,343BONE SCREW SYSTEM11 moClosed

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