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Roland G Foster

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2024

Roland G Foster is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 29 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2024. 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.

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Technology mix

Electrical & Electronic22 (69%)
Physics & Instruments9 (28%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing1 (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 29)

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Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/019,769Dec 18, 20248,005,053CHANNEL INTERFERENCE REDUCTION—Closed
90/019,467Apr 1, 20248,013,732SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING REMOTE DEVICES—Closed
90/019,415Feb 13, 20247,295,673METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURING COMPRESSED DIGITAL VIDEO14 moClosed
90/019,256Sep 20, 20239,766,703TRIANGULATION OF POINTS USING KNOWN POINTS IN AUGMENTED OR VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEMS13 moClosed
90/019,231Jul 21, 20238,139,651VIDEO DEBLOCKING FILTER—Closed
90/019,170Mar 2, 20237,456,617SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AND MONITORING AN ARRAY OF POINT-OF-LOAD REGULATORS BY A HOST20 moClosed
90/020,149Jun 1, 202210,922,157MANAGING FUNCTIONS ON AN IOS MOBILE DEVICE USING ANCS NOTIFICATIONS14 moClosed
90/015,010Apr 19, 20229,483,935CHANNEL-SWITCHING REMOTE CONTROLLED BARRIER OPENING SYSTEM23 moClosed
90/019,062Feb 22, 20226,683,858HYBRID SERVER ARCHITECTURE FOR MIXING AND NON-MIXING CLIENT CONFERENCING11 moClosed
90/014,913Nov 29, 202111,011,261DEVICE FOR GENERATING PROTOCOL DATA FOR AN INJECTION PEN—Closed
90/020,140Sep 28, 20217,729,728FORCED BEAM SWITCHING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING SMART ANTENNAS40 moClosed
90/014,708Mar 23, 20215,815,488Multiple User Access Method Using OFDM11 moClosed
90/014,594Oct 19, 20207,872,772Network Printing Tracking System36 moClosed
90/014,595Oct 19, 20207,872,772NETWORK PRINTING TRACKING SYSTEM36 moClosed
90/014,499Apr 19, 20208,014,540Remote Control Interface for Replacement Vehicle Stereos13 moClosed
90/014,375Sep 11, 20197,840,976SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODS13 moClosed
90/020,128Mar 22, 20198,155,342MULTIMEDIA DEVICE INTEGRATION SYSTEM64 moClosed
90/014,038Oct 26, 20176,756,885Multi-Vehicle Compatible Control System for Reading from a Data Bus and Associated Methods24 moClosed
90/013,967Jun 15, 2017RE43,500SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING A COMPUTER SYSTEM FROM MALICIOUS SOFTWARE79 moClosed
90/013,969Jun 7, 2017RE43,529SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING A COMPUTER SYSTEM FROM MALICIOUS SOFTWARE78 moClosed
90/013,908Feb 23, 20178,665,073Truncation, Compression, and Encryption of RFID Tag Communications33 moClosed
90/013,802Aug 29, 20168,902,760Network system and optional tethers13 moClosed
90/013,746May 17, 20166,905,353ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH PICK UP CAP PROTECTING CONTACTS16 moClosed
90/013,592Sep 22, 20158,300,863HEARING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A WIRELESS RECEIVING AND/OR SENDING OF DATA32 moClosed
90/013,435Jan 30, 20157,813,726Wireless Communications System15 moClosed

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