Samuel G Rimell
USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2021
Samuel G Rimell is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 20 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2021. These reexams concentrate in Physics & Instruments, Electrical & Electronic, 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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- 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 (20)
| Control # | Filed | Patent | Title | Pendency | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90/014,897 | Nov 9, 2021 | 9,578,040 | PACKET RECEIVING METHOD, DEEP PACKET INSPECTION DEVICE AND SYSTEM | 15 mo | Closed |
| 90/014,355 | Aug 5, 2019 | 9,749,792 | Water Use Monitoring Apparatus | 29 mo | Closed |
| 90/014,354 | Aug 2, 2019 | 9,297,150 | WATER USE MONITORING APPARATUS AND WATER DAMAGE PREVENTION SYSTEM | 27 mo | Closed |
| 90/014,187 | Aug 22, 2018 | 8,725,560 | Method And System For Simulated Product Evaluation Via Personalizing Advertisements Based On Portrait Images | 12 mo | Closed |
| 90/020,121 | Dec 1, 2017 | 8,204,717 | CLOUD COMPUTING AS A BASIS FOR EQUIPMENT HEALTH MONTORING SERVICE | 28 mo | Closed |
| 90/013,988 | Jul 17, 2017 | 7,552,124 | Natural Language for Programming a Specialized Computing System | 11 mo | Closed |
| 90/013,812 | Sep 16, 2016 | 8,015,182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPENDING SECURITY INFORMATION TO SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS | 29 mo | Closed |
| 90/013,637 | Nov 23, 2015 | 8,275,633 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING HEALTH AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION WITH A HANDHELD DEVICE | 7 mo | Closed |
| 90/013,536 | Jun 22, 2015 | 6,459,023 | MOUNTING BOARDS FOR GUITAR EFFECTS | 13 mo | Closed |
| 90/013,487 | Apr 14, 2015 | 6,415,280 | IDENTIFYING DATA REQUESTING DATA IN NETWORK USING IDENTIFIERS WHICH ARE BASED ON CONTENTS OF DATA | 40 mo | Closed |
| 90/013,423 | Jan 5, 2015 | 8,588,949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING VOLUME LEVELS IN A MULTI-ZONE SYSTEM | 10 mo | Closed |
| 90/013,303 | Jul 21, 2014 | 7,397,363 | CONTROL AND/OR MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD | 13 mo | Closed |
| 90/012,969 | Sep 4, 2013 | 8,035,478 | EASY-TO-RETROFIT, ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED DOOR LOCK SYSTEM | 11 mo | Closed |
| 90/012,929 | Jul 26, 2013 | 5,611,346 | METHOD OF INTERFERENCE-TOLERANT TRANSMISSION OF HEARTBEAT SIGNALS | 14 mo | Closed |
| 90/012,924 | Jul 23, 2013 | 5,414,650 | PARSING INFORMATION ONTO PACKETS USING CONTEXT-INSENSITIVE PARSING RULES BASED ON PACKET CHARACTERISTICS | 15 mo | Closed |
| 90/020,054 | Apr 25, 2013 | 6,553,350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRICING PRODUCTS IN MULTI-LEVEL PRODUCT AND ORGANIZATIONAL GROUPS | — | Closed |
| 90/012,663 | Sep 15, 2012 | 6,438,526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND PROCESSING LOAN DATA | 14 mo | Closed |
| 90/012,642 | Sep 14, 2012 | 7,343,348 | SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING REAL-ESTATE TRANSACTIONS OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK USING PARTICIPANT TEMPLATES | 9 mo | Closed |
| 90/012,344 | Jun 8, 2012 | 7,386,555 | Post-Session Internet Advertising System | 36 mo | Closed |
| 90/012,239 | Apr 5, 2012 | 7,201,661 | VIDEO GAMING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | 39 mo | Closed |
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