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Stephen J Ralis

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2026

Stephen J Ralis is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 66 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 23 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.

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Technology mix

Electrical & Electronic33 (49%)
Physics & Instruments30 (44%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing2 (3%)
Mechanical Engineering2 (3%)
Life Sciences & Consumer1 (1%)

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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 66)

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Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,582Sep 11, 202610,028,698Method and Device for Sleep Analysis—Open
90/016,579Sep 9, 202611,202,603Method and Device for Sleep Analysis—Open
90/016,491Jul 21, 202610,863,608LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DRIVING SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL BASED ON POWER LINE—Open
90/016,380Jun 5, 202612,222,759WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE—Open
90/016,261May 8, 202612,222,759WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE—Open
90/016,260May 8, 202612,346,159WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE—Open
90/016,137Apr 3, 20269,106,697System and Method for Identifying Unauthorized Activities on a Computer System Using a Data Structure Model—Open
90/016,114Apr 1, 20268,352,730BIOMETRIC PERSONAL DATA KEY (PDK) AUTHENTICATION—Open
90/016,035Mar 6, 202611,342,777POWERING AND/OR CHARGING WITH MORE THAN ONE PROTOCOL—Open
90/015,985Feb 23, 202611,868,178WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE—Open
90/015,907Jan 26, 202611,294,403REMOTE CONTROL OF FLUID-HANDLING DEVICES—Open
90/015,894Jan 19, 202611,175,680REMOTE CONTROL OF FLUID-HANDLING DEVICES—Open
90/015,880Jan 12, 202612,321,184REMOTE CONTROL OF FLUID-HANDLING DEVICES—Open
90/015,825Dec 23, 202512,019,461REMOTE CONTROL OF FLUID-HANDLING DEVICES—Open
90/015,829Dec 23, 20259,898,014REMOTE CONTROL OF FLUID-HANDLING DEVICES—Open
90/015,720Nov 26, 20257,593,034LOOP RECORDING WITH BOOK MARKING—Open
90/015,629Oct 23, 20259,183,603Displaying a Barcode on a Display of an Infusion Pump—Open
90/015,540Sep 24, 20257,499,903SEMANTIC TO NON-SEMANTIC ROUTING FOR LOCATING A LIVE EXPERT—Closed
90/015,520Sep 23, 20259,050,825SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING AND TRANSLATING BRAILLE EMBOSSING—Open
90/015,506Sep 8, 20259,994,041SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING AND TRANSLATING BRAILLE EMBOSSING—Open
90/015,427Aug 4, 20258,370,571TRANSFER CONTROL OF A STORAGE VOLUME BETWEEN STORAGE CONTROLLERS IN A CLUSTER—Open
90/019,952May 9, 20259,031,537ELECTRONIC WIRELESS HAND HELD MULTIMEDIA DEVICE—Open
90/019,893Mar 31, 202510,984,911MULTIPLE WAVELENGTH SENSOR EMITTERS—Open
90/019,797Dec 30, 202411,055,583MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMPUTING ENABLED SYSTEMS AND/OR DEVICES18 moClosed
90/019,771Dec 13, 20247,741,968SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATION TRACKING OF INDIVIDUALS IN A GROUP—Open

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