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Michael J Yigdall

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2017

Michael J Yigdall is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 17 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2017. These reexams concentrate in Physics & Instruments, Electrical & Electronic, 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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17

Technology mix

Physics & Instruments12 (63%)
Electrical & Electronic5 (26%)
Mechanical Engineering1 (5%)
Life Sciences & Consumer1 (5%)

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  • 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 (17)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/014,008Sep 19, 20179,043,751Methods and Devices for Managing a Cloud Computing Environment14 moClosed
90/013,891Feb 10, 20178,184,825Vehicle Remote Control Interface for Controlling Multiple Electronic Devices45 moClosed
90/013,736Apr 20, 20165,819,201NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH VEHICLE SERVICE INFORMATION13 moClosed
90/013,685Jan 25, 20167,249,372NETWORK BASED DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD15 moClosed
90/013,418Dec 12, 20146,493,377DISTRIBUTED NETWORK, SPREAD-SPECTRUM SYSTEM31 moClosed
90/013,292Jul 8, 20148,585,234Swingable Electronic Candle10 moClosed
90/013,210Apr 10, 20148,294,915INTERFACE CIRCUIT FOR UTILIZING A FACSIMILE MACHINE COUPLED TO A PC AS A SCANNER OR PRINTER31 moClosed
90/013,209Apr 10, 20148,040,574INTERFACE CIRCUIT FOR UTILIZING A FACSIMILE MACHINE TO A PC AS A SCANNER OR PRINTER29 moClosed
90/013,162Feb 24, 20148,448,000METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR OPERATING A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM16 moClosed
90/013,050Nov 4, 20136,996,538INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHODS13 moClosed
90/012,901Jun 27, 20135,530,597Apparatus and Method for Disabling Interrupt Masks in Processors or the Like—Closed
90/012,781Feb 4, 20135,530,597Apparatus and Method for Disabling Interrupt Masks in Processors or the Like14 moClosed
90/012,705Oct 17, 20126,887,114ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE CONTACTS—Closed
90/012,329May 30, 20126,243,838Method for Automatically Reporting a System Failure in a Server29 moClosed
90/012,332May 30, 20127,844,915APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR SCROLLING OPERATIONS93 moClosed
90/012,241Apr 5, 2012RE42,821METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC TRACKING OF UNITS ASSOCIATED WITH A BATCH29 moClosed
90/012,236Apr 4, 20127,265,674THIN, FLEXIBLE, RFID LABELS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE34 moClosed
90/012,114Jan 30, 2012RE41,531Communications Systems for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)30 moClosed
90/012,089Jan 11, 20126,169,368Visual Information Systems33 moClosed

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