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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 70 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 26 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 & Electronic41 (58%)
Physics & Instruments29 (41%)
Construction & Mining1 (1%)

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, 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 70)

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Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,622Sep 28, 202611,729,143Methods for Internet Communication Security—Open
90/016,616Sep 25, 20268,745,749Virtual Secure Digital Card—Open
90/016,554Aug 28, 202610,965,646METHODS FOR INTERNET COMMUNICATION SECURITY—Open
90/016,454Jul 9, 20267,372,960METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING FINITE FIELD CALCULATIONS—Open
90/016,388Jun 9, 202612,150,105WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL IN BASIC SERVICE SET OVERLAPPING WITH ANOTHER BASIC SERVICE SET—Open
90/016,366Jun 1, 202610,469,554APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MULTI-BITRATE CONTENT STREAMING—Open
90/016,319May 20, 20267,593,936SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED COMPUTER SUPPORT—Closed
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—Closed
90/015,995Feb 25, 20268,520,691PERSISTENT MESH FOR ISOLATED MOBILE AND TEMPORAL NETWORKING—Open
90/015,997Feb 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
90/015,866Jan 7, 202610,339,556SELECTING AND TRANSMITTING AN ADVERTISEMENT FROM A SERVER IN RESPONSE TO USER INPUT—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

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