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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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  • 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 (17)

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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
90/012,332May 30, 20127,844,915APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR SCROLLING OPERATIONS93 moClosed
90/012,329May 30, 20126,243,838Method for Automatically Reporting a System Failure in a Server29 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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