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Fred O Ferris Iii

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2021

Fred O Ferris Iii is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 20 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2021. These reexams concentrate in Physics & Instruments, Electrical & Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering. 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

Physics & Instruments10 (48%)
Electrical & Electronic7 (33%)
Mechanical Engineering4 (19%)

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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 (20)

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Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/019,051Dec 29, 20218,977,797METHOD OF IMPROVING PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERFACE COMMUNICATIONS UTILIZING A LOW VOLTAGE DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL CHANNEL18 moClosed
90/019,050Dec 28, 2021RE44,654DATA SECURITY METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPUTER MODULES28 moClosed
90/014,885Oct 20, 20218,232,766Multifunctional Charger System and Method16 moClosed
90/014,834Aug 25, 20218,122,141STREAMING MEDIA BUFFERING SYSTEM33 moClosed
90/014,706Mar 23, 20218,718,158SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCRAMBLING THE PHASE OF THE CARRIERS IN A MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM31 moClosed
90/014,636Dec 21, 202010,057,603ENTROPY CODING SUPPORTING MODE SWITCHING13 moClosed
90/014,535Jun 19, 20207,975,305METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE RULE-BASED CONTENT SCANNERS FOR DESKTOP COMPUTERS—Closed
90/014,477Mar 19, 20207,975,305METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE RULE-BASED CONTENT SCANNERS FOR DESKTOP COMPUTERS11 moClosed
90/014,377Sep 19, 201910,180,862SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS OPERATING ON A SHARED PLATFORM40 moClosed
90/014,371Sep 4, 20199,719,642TUBE LIGHT WITH IMPROVED LED ARRAY21 moClosed
90/014,372Sep 4, 20199,845,924TUBE LIGHT WITH IMPROVED LED ARRAY23 moClosed
90/014,231Nov 2, 20189,685,582Light Emitting Device and Method of Fabricating the Same17 moClosed
90/014,071Jan 19, 20188,494,581SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE FIELD ASSETS VIA WIRELESS HANDHELD DEVICES21 moClosed
90/013,987Jul 17, 20176,888,715EMI FEEDTHROUGH FILTER TERMINAL ASSEMBLY UTILIZING HERMETIC SEAL FOR ELECTRICAL ATTACHMENT BETWEEN LEAD WIRES AND CAPACITOR11 moClosed
90/013,815Oct 12, 20167,866,841Compact Flashlight17 moClosed
90/013,718Apr 7, 20167,503,784QUICK CONNECTOR9 moClosed
90/013,480Mar 27, 20156,639,588A DISPLAY APPARATUS WHICH DISPLAYS AN IMAGE BASED ON A VIDEO SIGNAL FROM A COMPUTER10 moClosed
90/013,392Nov 3, 20146,639,588Image_Display_Apparatus15 moClosed
90/013,275Jul 23, 20146,069,896CAPABILITY ADDRESSABLE NETWORK AND METHOD THEREFOR23 moClosed
90/012,877May 24, 20138,144,428Recording Tape Cartridge And Drive Device For Reducing Friction14 moClosed
90/012,218Mar 30, 20125,877,445SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PRESCRIBED DURATION AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SEQUENCES4 moClosed

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