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Jimmy G Foster

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2014

Jimmy G Foster is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 14 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2014. These reexams concentrate in Mechanical & Manufacturing, Construction & Mining, 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.

Filings by year

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14

Technology mix

Mechanical & Manufacturing6 (43%)
Construction & Mining3 (21%)
Mechanical Engineering2 (14%)
Physics & Instruments2 (14%)
Life Sciences & Consumer1 (7%)

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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 — 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 (14)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/013,298Jul 23, 20145,507,254Variable Phase Coupling For the Transmission of Alternating Torques13 moClosed
90/013,221May 22, 20147,360,641Conveyor Belt Having Rollers that Displace Objects16 moClosed
90/020,067May 22, 20148,267,124PIPELINE ISOLATION16 moClosed
90/012,808Mar 19, 20137,665,944PIPE PICK-UP AND LAYDOWN APPARATUS AND METHOD8 moClosed
90/012,807Mar 19, 20137,635,249PIPE PICK-UP AND LAYDOWN APPARATUS11 moClosed
90/012,712Oct 29, 20126,148,990Modular Roller-Top Conveyor Belt12 moClosed
90/012,624Sep 14, 20126,524,031DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRENCHLESS REPLACEMENT OF UNDERGROUND PIPE33 moClosed
90/012,583Sep 14, 20126,799,923TRENCHLESS WATER PIPE REPLACEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD15 moClosed
90/012,635Sep 14, 20126,305,880DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRENCHLESS REPLACEMENT OF UNDERGROUNG PIPE33 moClosed
90/012,602Sep 14, 20126,793,442DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRENCHLESS REPLACEMENT OF UNDERGROUND PIPE25 moClosed
90/012,371Jun 22, 20125,974,621MOP WRINGER WITH MOP HANDLE SUPPORT14 moClosed
90/012,166Feb 29, 20126,053,403CONICAL FOOD SCOOP6 moClosed
90/012,142Feb 14, 20126,182,649BALL-THROWING MACHINE6 moClosed
90/012,140Feb 14, 20126,546,924BALL-THROWING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR PROFILING PITCHES6 moClosed

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