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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 28 ex parte reexaminations between 2022 and 2026, with 16 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Electrical & Electronic, Physics & Instruments, and Mechanical & Manufacturing. 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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Technology mix

Electrical & Electronic20 (71%)
Physics & Instruments6 (21%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing1 (4%)
Mechanical Engineering1 (4%)

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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 — 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 28)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,182Apr 14, 20269,290,153VEHICLE-BASED MULTIMODE DISCOVERY—Open
90/016,134Apr 3, 202612,108,103PORTABLE TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT DISPLAY SYSTEM AND CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD—Closed
90/016,133Apr 3, 202611,509,953INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD—Open
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
90/015,723Nov 26, 20259,912,914WRITE-PROTECTED RECORDING—Open
90/015,722Nov 26, 20258,692,882LOOP RECORDING WITH BOOK MARKING—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
90/015,709Nov 20, 202510,419,996MOBILE DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC SWITCHING BETWEEN CELLULAR AND WIFI NETWORKS—Open
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
90/015,418Jul 30, 20257,825,688PROGRAMMABLE MICROCONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE(MIXED ANALOG/DIGITAL)—Open
90/019,959May 13, 20258,756,622MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD—Closed
90/019,958May 13, 202510,719,849MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD—Closed
90/019,954May 12, 202510,572,896MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD8 moClosed
90/019,915Apr 16, 20258,565,331INSERTING AND DECODING REPLICATED DATA SYMBOLS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS—Open
90/019,765Dec 12, 20247,260,153MULTI INPUT MULTI OUTPUT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING EXTENDED RANGE AND EXTENDED RATE ACROSS IMPERFECTLY ESTIMATED CHANNELS7 moClosed
90/019,736Nov 21, 202411,719,464DRAIN CLEANER APPARATUS15 moClosed
90/019,730Nov 14, 20249,955,171IMAGE DECODER, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODER, AND IMAGE ENCODE METHOD10 moClosed
90/019,672Sep 20, 202410,757,156APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE-RATE SHIFTING OF STREAMING CONTENT—Open
90/019,616Aug 8, 20248,756,622MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD—Open
90/015,227May 2, 20237,068,684QUALITY OF SERVICE IN A VOICE OVER IP TELEPHONE SYSTEM33 moClosed

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