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John M Hotaling

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2026

John M Hotaling is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 62 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 23 currently open. 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 & Electronic35 (56%)
Physics & Instruments24 (38%)
Mechanical Engineering3 (5%)
Life Sciences & Consumer1 (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 — 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 62)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,142Apr 20, 20268,401,875SECURED PERSONAL DATA HANDLING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM—Open
90/016,183Apr 14, 20266,813,742HIGH SPEED TURBO CODES DECODER FOR 3G USING PIPELINED SISO LOG-MAP DECODERS ARCHITECTURE—Open
90/016,086Mar 24, 202611,231,775EYE IMAGE SELECTION—Open
90/016,008Feb 26, 202611,777,776HEADER REPETITION IN PACKET-BASED OFDM SYSTEMS—Open
90/015,994Feb 25, 20269,485,176GLOBAL IP-BASED SERVICE-ORIENTED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE—Open
90/015,924Jan 30, 202610,523,344Periodic Calibration For Communication Channels By Drift Tracking—Open
90/015,849Dec 31, 20259,160,466Periodic Calibration For Communication Channels By Drift Tracking—Open
90/015,813Dec 22, 202511,956,620DUAL LISTENER POSITIONS FOR MIXED REALITY—Open
90/015,731Nov 26, 20258,581,810METHODS AND CIRCUITS FOR SELF-CALIBRATING CONTROLLER—Open
90/015,673Nov 12, 202511,403,237ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS WITH AUDIO FOR MEETINGS—Open
90/015,602Oct 15, 20257,120,832STORAGE DEVICE PERFORMANCE MONITOR—Open
90/015,600Oct 14, 202511,109,218SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING CELLULAR PHONES AND SECURITY MEASURES FOR THE SAME—Open
90/015,550Sep 29, 202511,555,729INFUSION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM WITH INFUSION DATA GROUPING LOGIC—Open
90/015,444Aug 12, 20257,280,830AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH A HOME RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED BETWEEN A DEVICE AND A LOCAL AREA NETWORK—Open
90/015,410Jul 26, 20257,664,059ERROR HANDLING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM—Open
90/015,376Jul 11, 20258,977,247EXCLUSIVE DELIVERY OF CONTENT WITHIN GEOGRAPHIC AREAS9 moClosed
90/019,972May 28, 202510,887,868METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION OR RECEPTION USING BEAMFORMING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM—Open
90/019,903Apr 5, 20256,961,586FIELD ASSESSMENTS USING HANDHELD DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICES—Open
90/019,902Apr 4, 202510,798,754METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SERVING QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) FLOW IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM—Open
90/019,789Dec 26, 202410,257,520MODIFIED CODING FOR TRANSFORM SKIPPING13 moClosed
90/019,690Oct 2, 202411,507,193METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY16 moClosed
90/019,441Mar 5, 20248,014,394HIGH-SPEED PROCESSING OF MULTICAST CONTENT REQUESTS16 moClosed
90/019,353Dec 27, 20238,881,048SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE—Open
90/015,285Sep 27, 20238,244,582METHOD AND STORED PROGRAM FOR ACCUMULATING DESCRIPTIVE PROFILE DATA ALONG WITH SOURCE INFORMATION FOR USE IN TARGETING THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISEMENTS13 moClosed
90/015,261Jul 20, 202310,652,111METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEEP PACKET INSPECTION IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS26 moClosed

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