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Robert J Hance

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2022 to 2026

Robert J Hance is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 39 ex parte reexaminations between 2022 and 2026, with 26 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Electrical & Electronic, Physics & Instruments, 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

Electrical & Electronic24 (62%)
Physics & Instruments7 (18%)
Life Sciences & Consumer5 (13%)
Construction & Mining1 (3%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing1 (3%)
Mechanical Engineering1 (3%)

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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 39)

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Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,615Sep 25, 202611,399,168METHOD FOR ENCODING AND METHOD FOR DECODING A COLOR TRANSFORM AND CORRESPONDING DEVICES—Open
90/016,600Sep 18, 202611,786,596Multiple Sign Bit Hiding Within a Transform Unit—Open
90/016,552Aug 28, 202610,212,422METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO, AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS—Open
90/016,470Jul 15, 202611,373,405METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF COMBINING VIDEO CONTENT WITH ONE OR MORE AUGMENTATIONS TO PRODUCE AUGMENTED VIDEO—Open
90/016,462Jul 10, 20268,462,846Video Encoder and Method for Performing Intra-Prediction and Video Data Compression—Closed
90/016,447Jul 6, 20268,374,755MACHINE WITH TASK-DEPENDENT CONTROL—Open
90/016,282May 14, 202612,171,606SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, DIAGNOSIS, RISK STRATIFICATION, DECISION MAKING AND/OR DISEASE TRACKING—Open
90/016,275May 13, 202612,178,627SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, DIAGNOSIS, RISK STRATIFICATION, DECISION MAKING AND/OR DISEASE TRACKING—Open
90/016,264May 11, 202612,097,063SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, DIAGNOSIS, RISK STRATIFICATION, DECISION MAKING AND/OR DISEASE TRACKING—Open
90/016,266May 11, 202611,672,497SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, DIAGNOSIS, RISK STRATIFICATION, DECISION MAKING AND/OR DISEASE TRACKING—Open
90/016,248May 5, 202611,244,451SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, DIAGNOSIS, RISK STRATIFICATION, DECISION MAKING AND/OR DISEASE TRACKING—Open
90/016,182Apr 14, 20269,290,153VEHICLE-BASED MULTIMODE DISCOVERY—Open
90/016,133Apr 3, 202611,509,953INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD—Open
90/016,134Apr 3, 202612,108,103PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD—Closed
90/016,073Mar 23, 20268,693,556COMMUNICATION CHANNEL CALIBRATION FOR DRIFT CONDITIONS—Open
90/015,989Feb 24, 20269,437,279MEMORY CONTROLLER WITH CLOCK-TO-STROBE SKEW COMPENSATION—Open
90/015,968Feb 17, 202611,381,818METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING QUANTIZATION PARAMETER PREDICTORS FROM A PLURALITY OF NEIGHBORING QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS—Open
90/015,934Feb 2, 202611,597,402CONTROLLING DRIVING MODES OF SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES—Closed
90/015,722Nov 26, 20258,692,882LOOP RECORDING WITH BOOK MARKING—Open
90/015,723Nov 26, 20259,912,914WRITE-PROTECTED RECORDING—Open
90/015,709Nov 20, 202510,419,996MOBILE DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC SWITCHING BETWEEN CELLULAR AND WIFI NETWORKS—Open
90/015,707Nov 20, 20258,886,181MOBILE TELEPHONE VOIP/CELLULAR SEAMLESS ROAMING SWITCHING CONTROLLER—Open
90/015,708Nov 20, 202510,368,281TELEPHONE WITH AUTOMATIC SWITCHING BETWEEN CELLULAR AND VOIP NETWORKS—Closed
90/015,687Nov 14, 20258,578,285METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SECURE INFORMATION VIA MULTIPLE AUTHORIZED CHANNELS TO AUTHENTICATED USERS AND USER DEVICES—Open
90/015,639Oct 28, 20259,768,842Pre-Coding in Multi-User MIMO—Open

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