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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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  • 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
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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 29)

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
90/014,595Oct 19, 20207,872,772NETWORK PRINTING TRACKING SYSTEM36 moClosed
90/014,594Oct 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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