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Matthew E Heneghan

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2026

Matthew E Heneghan is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 63 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 21 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Electrical & Electronic, Physics & Instruments, and Construction & Mining. 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 & Electronic37 (58%)
Physics & Instruments26 (41%)
Construction & Mining1 (2%)

Compare against all examiners

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 63)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,201Apr 21, 20268,477,762SELF-FORMING VOIP NETWORK—Open
90/016,144Apr 14, 202612,028,793SYSTEMS/METHODS OF ESTABLISHING A CAPABILITY, AND THEN USING THE CAPABILITY, TO PERFORM A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION BY A SMARTPHONE—Open
90/016,095Mar 27, 202611,924,743SYSTEMS/METHODS OF ESTABLISHING A CAPABILITY, AND USING THE CAPABILITY, TO EXECUTE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS BY A SMARTPHONE—Open
90/015,997Feb 25, 20268,520,691PERSISTENT MESH FOR ISOLATED MOBILE AND TEMPORAL NETWORKING—Open
90/015,995Feb 25, 20268,520,691PERSISTENT MESH FOR ISOLATED MOBILE AND TEMPORAL NETWORKING—Open
90/015,952Feb 6, 20269,049,000REAL-TIME PACKET TRANSFORMS TO AVOID RE-TRANSMISSIONS—Open
90/015,870Jan 8, 202610,621,612DISPLAYING AN ADVERTISEMENT IN RESPONSE TO USER INPUT USING A NON-BROWSER BASED APPLICATION—Open
90/015,819Jan 6, 20268,666,062METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING FINITE FIELD CALCULATIONS—Open
90/015,820Dec 22, 20257,372,960METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING FINITE FIELD CALCULATIONS—Open
90/015,758Dec 8, 20257,724,143ANTENNA CONSTRUCTION, FOR EXAMPLE FOR AN RFID TRANSPONDER SYSTEM—Open
90/015,711Nov 24, 20259,135,456SECURE DATA PARSER METHOD AND SYSTEM—Open
90/015,634Oct 24, 20259,147,296CUSTOMIZATION OF VEHICLE CONTROLS AND SETTINGS BASED ON USER PROFILE DATA—Open
90/015,542Sep 24, 202511,245,938Systems and Methods for Protecting Elementary Bitstreams Incorporating Independently Encoded Tiles—Open
90/015,541Sep 24, 202510,542,303Systems and Methods for Protecting Elementary Bitstreams Incorporating Independently Encoded Tiles—Open
90/015,450Aug 18, 202510,694,384SCHEMES FOR CONNECTING TO WIRELESS NETWORK—Open
90/015,451Aug 18, 20259,961,552SCHEMES FOR CONNECTING TO WIRELESS NETWORK—Open
90/015,374Jul 10, 20259,450,884SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING BASED CONGESTION CONTROL9 moClosed
90/019,982Jun 10, 20256,938,177MULTI-CHIP MODULE SMART CONTROLLER—Open
90/019,941Apr 30, 20257,103,640NETWORK DISTRIBUTED TRACKING WIRE TRANSFER PROTOCOL—Open
90/019,846Feb 11, 20259,870,453DIRECT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD VIA TRUSTED AUTHENTICATORS—Open
90/019,719Nov 4, 20249,032,038Recipient Control System for Ensuring Non-Conflicting and Comprehensive Distribution of Digital Information and Method Thereof13 moClosed
90/019,702Oct 14, 2024RE47,720SPECTRUM-ADAPTIVE NETWORKING10 moClosed
90/019,617Aug 9, 20249,665,705REMOTE ENTRY SYSTEM—Closed
90/019,554Jun 27, 20248,559,970Method for Providing Location-Based Information Services, Location-Based Information Services System, and Portable Electronic Device8 moClosed
90/019,532Jun 7, 20248,533,326METHOD FOR MANAGING, ROUTING, AND CONTROLLING DEVICES AND INTER-DEVICE CONNECTIONS11 moClosed

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