Eileen Dunn Lillis

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2023

Eileen Dunn Lillis is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 11 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2023, with 1 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Physics & Instruments, 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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Technology mix

Physics & Instruments4 (36%)
Mechanical Engineering3 (27%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing2 (18%)
Life Sciences & Consumer2 (18%)

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 — 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 (11)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/019,312Nov 30, 202310,288,071BEARING AND SHAFT ASSEMBLY FOR JET ASSEMBLIES5 moClosed
90/015,254Jun 25, 20239,194,680POLYMER-BASED MACHINE GUN BELT LINKS AND CARTRIDGE CASINGS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD11 moClosed
90/019,216Jun 5, 20237,434,674DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR A WHEELED DEVICE13 moClosed
90/019,217Jun 5, 20237,434,674DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR A WHEELED DEVICE13 moClosed
90/019,218Jun 5, 20237,434,674DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR A WHEELED DEVICE13 moClosed
90/019,219Jun 5, 20237,434,674DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR A WHEELED DEVICE13 moClosed
90/014,811Jul 23, 20218,511,042METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING ICE STRUCTURESOpen
90/014,437Jan 21, 20207,931,239HOMEOSTATIC FLYING HOVERCRAFTClosed
90/014,438Jan 21, 20209,073,532HOMEOSTATIC FLYING HOVERCRAFTClosed
90/013,334Sep 3, 20147,326,210Spinal Stabilization DeviceClosed
90/012,701Oct 11, 20128,273,112Pedicle Screw Assembly9 moClosed

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