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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.

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  • 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
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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 (showing 25 of 52)

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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