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James A Menefee

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2024

James A Menefee is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 52 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2024. These reexams concentrate in Electrical & Electronic, Physics & Instruments, 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

Electrical & Electronic24 (46%)
Physics & Instruments15 (29%)
Mechanical Engineering6 (12%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing6 (12%)
Chemistry & Materials1 (2%)

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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 (showing 25 of 52)

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Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/019,634Aug 27, 202411,002,423GLASS LED BULB AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION10 moClosed
90/019,520May 23, 20247,031,314SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES WITHIN A NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM9 moClosed
90/015,302Sep 25, 202311,715,850Battery Thermal Management System12 moClosed
90/019,206May 9, 202311,320,599MULTIMEDIA CONNECTOR CABLE13 moClosed
90/020,152Jan 18, 202311,269,086SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADON DETECTION11 moClosed
90/019,140Dec 12, 202210,928,335ADAPTIVE SPECIMEN IMAGE ACQUISITION USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK8 moClosed
90/015,033May 27, 20229,401,262Multi-Source Plasma Focused Ion Beam System11 moClosed
90/014,960Feb 22, 202210,433,397SOLAR POWERED LIGHT ASSEMBLY TO PRODUCE LIGHT OF VARYING COLORS11 moClosed
90/014,927Dec 21, 20218,270,784WAVEGUIDE DEVICE30 moClosed
90/014,921Dec 9, 20219,568,712Miniature Telephoto Lens Assembly—Closed
90/014,762May 28, 20217,620,327FIBER OPTIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARD WITH ENERGY LEVEL MONITORING14 moClosed
90/014,707Mar 23, 20219,014,243SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCRAMBLING USING A BIT SCRAMBLER AND A PHASE SCRAMBLER29 moClosed
90/014,601Oct 30, 202010,488,000THIN PROFILE SURFACE MOUNT LIGHTING APPARATUS12 moClosed
90/014,306May 21, 20197,429,827SOLAR POWERED LIGHT ASSEMBLY TO PRODUCE LIGHT OF VARYING COLOURS70 moClosed
90/014,224Oct 26, 20189,410,691LIGHTED FOOTWEAR10 moClosed
90/014,044Nov 6, 20179,752,761Landscape Light12 moClosed
90/013,984Jul 13, 20179,546,775Decorative lighting apparatus having two laser light sources14 moClosed
90/013,827Oct 4, 20167,839,729OPTICAL DRIVE SERVO WITH A SERVO PROCESSOR RECEIVING PHOTODETECTOR SIGNALS8 moClosed
90/013,789Aug 4, 20168,766,298ENCAPSULANT PROFILE FOR LIGHT EMITTING DIODES7 moClosed
90/013,691Feb 16, 20168,851,709REMOTE CONTROL OF ILLUMINATING HEADLAMP8 moClosed
90/013,681Jan 11, 20167,273,168POINT-OF-SALE BILLING VIA HAND-HELD DEVICES7 moClosed
90/013,567Aug 14, 20159,048,315SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE2 moClosed
90/013,503May 4, 20156,618,593Location Dependent User Matching System12 moClosed
90/013,352Oct 27, 20146,720,871Modulated Intensity Flasher For Vehicle Brake Light With Lockout11 moClosed
90/013,353Sep 25, 20148,389,203EXPOSING PRINTING PLATES USING LIGHT EMITTING DIODES8 moClosed

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