Karin M Reichle
USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2026
Karin M Reichle is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 65 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 23 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Physics & Instruments, Electrical & Electronic, and Life Sciences & Consumer. 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
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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 65)
| Control # | Filed | Patent | Title | Pendency | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90/016,354 | May 29, 2026 | 9,270,744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY TO EXISTING SOFTWARE IN AN INTEGRATED MANNER | — | Open |
| 90/016,355 | May 29, 2026 | 9,578,092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY TO EXISTING SOFTWARE IN AN INTEGRATED MANNER | — | Open |
| 90/016,342 | May 27, 2026 | 11,581,078 | ASSOCIATING AN INFORMATION READER AND A MEDICAL DEVICE | — | Open |
| 90/016,300 | May 15, 2026 | 8,554,671 | System And Associated Method And Service For Providing A Platform That Allows For The Exchange Of Cash Between Members In A Mobile Environment | — | Open |
| 90/016,254 | May 7, 2026 | 9,065,893 | CREDIT CARD FORM FACTOR SECURE MOBILE COMPUTER AND METHODS | — | Open |
| 90/016,192 | Apr 17, 2026 | 6,671,696 | INFORMATIONAL OBJECT AUTHORING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/016,181 | Apr 13, 2026 | 11,937,172 | SYSTEMS/METHODS OF A TWO-STEP PROCESS IN ESTABLISHING A CAPABILITY, AND USING THE CAPABILITY, TO EXECUTE A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION BY A SMARTPHONE | — | Open |
| 90/016,096 | Mar 27, 2026 | 9,112,934 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING ON-DEMAND CONTENT DELIVERING OVERLAY NETWORK | — | Open |
| 90/016,058 | Mar 18, 2026 | 6,816,809 | HARDWARE BASED UTILIZATION METERING | — | Open |
| 90/015,956 | Feb 10, 2026 | 8,922,333 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/015,891 | Jan 16, 2026 | 12,211,328 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/015,876 | Jan 9, 2026 | 11,804,084 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/015,850 | Dec 31, 2025 | 9,704,316 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/015,831 | Dec 24, 2025 | 9,615,192 | MESSAGE LINK SERVER WITH PLURAL MESSAGE DELIVERY TRIGGERS | — | Open |
| 90/015,759 | Dec 9, 2025 | 11,080,951 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/015,685 | Nov 14, 2025 | 8,370,416 | Compatibility enforcement in clustered computing systems | — | Open |
| 90/015,581 | Oct 27, 2025 | 9,547,751 | ASSOCIATING AN INFORMATION READER AND A MEDICAL DEVICE | — | Open |
| 90/015,575 | Oct 6, 2025 | 9,747,565 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE FIELD ASSETS VIA WIRELESS HANDHELD DEVICES | — | Closed |
| 90/015,465 | Aug 22, 2025 | 10,789,626 | DEEP-LINKING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT AND E-COMMERCE | — | Closed |
| 90/015,380 | Jul 11, 2025 | 7,089,133 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR PROVIDING A SYSTEM LEVEL RESET FUNCTION FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | — | Open |
| 90/019,960 | May 13, 2025 | 10,719,848 | MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | — | Closed |
| 90/019,961 | May 13, 2025 | 8,510,768 | MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | — | Closed |
| 90/019,955 | May 12, 2025 | 8,296,791 | MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | 9 mo | Closed |
| 90/019,882 | Mar 17, 2025 | 7,165,224 | IMAGE BROWSING AND DOWNLOADING IN MOBILE NETWORKS | — | Open |
| 90/019,784 | Dec 20, 2024 | 8,515,386 | EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR VOICE OVER IP TELEPHONY (E-VOIP) | — | Open |
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