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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, 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 (14)

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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
90/012,807Mar 19, 20137,635,249PIPE PICK-UP AND LAYDOWN APPARATUS11 moClosed
90/012,808Mar 19, 20137,665,944PIPE PICK-UP AND LAYDOWN APPARATUS AND METHOD8 moClosed
90/012,712Oct 29, 20126,148,990Modular Roller-Top Conveyor Belt12 moClosed
90/012,602Sep 14, 20126,793,442DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRENCHLESS REPLACEMENT OF UNDERGROUND PIPE25 moClosed
90/012,583Sep 14, 20126,799,923TRENCHLESS WATER PIPE REPLACEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD15 moClosed
90/012,624Sep 14, 20126,524,031DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRENCHLESS REPLACEMENT OF UNDERGROUND PIPE33 moClosed
90/012,635Sep 14, 20126,305,880DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRENCHLESS REPLACEMENT OF UNDERGROUNG PIPE33 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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