William V Gilbert

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2023 to 2026

William V Gilbert is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 36 ex parte reexaminations between 2023 and 2026, with 28 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Mechanical Engineering, Life Sciences & Consumer, 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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23
7
24
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25
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26

Technology mix

Mechanical Engineering21 (58%)
Life Sciences & Consumer6 (17%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing5 (14%)
Construction & Mining3 (8%)
Electrical & Electronic1 (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 36)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,341May 26, 202611,801,996TRASH CAN ASSEMBLYOpen
90/016,014Apr 6, 20269,982,959MONOLITHIC NOISE SUPPRESSION DEVICE FOR FIREARMOpen
90/016,013Apr 6, 20269,470,466MONOLITHIC NOISE SUPPRESSION DEVICE FOR FIREARMOpen
90/016,015Apr 6, 20269,777,979MONOLITHIC NOISE SUPPRESSION DEVICE FOR FIREARMOpen
90/016,101Mar 30, 202612,207,730HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE ANGLED DESKSOpen
90/015,999Feb 26, 20269,382,925AUTOMATED SHIFTING OF HYDRAULIC DRIVE SYSTEMSOpen
90/015,817Dec 22, 202512,372,315FIREARM FRAME WITH A RELIEFOpen
90/015,796Dec 19, 20258,052,307LENS AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAMEOpen
90/015,780Dec 12, 202510,508,805T-BAR FOR SUSPENDED CEILING WITH HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEM FOR LED LIGHTINGOpen
90/015,781Dec 12, 202511,732,878T-BAR FOR SUSPENDED CEILING WITH HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEM FOR LED LIGHTINGOpen
90/015,765Dec 10, 20258,616,729LENS AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAMEOpen
90/015,702Nov 19, 20258,213,093LENS AND LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAMEOpen
90/015,680Nov 12, 20257,676,976SYSTEMS FOR ATTACHING A NOISE SUPPRESSOR TO A FIREARMOpen
90/015,631Oct 23, 202511,859,783CONVERTIBLE LIGHT DEVICEOpen
90/015,624Oct 22, 20259,918,511ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR HAVING A TEXTILE UPPEROpen
90/015,510Sep 10, 202512,274,187METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTENDING THE SERVICE LIFE OF AN AGRICULTURAL PLANTEROpen
90/015,400Jul 22, 202510,690,435Bullpup CrossbowOpen
90/015,384Jul 15, 202511,439,238FOLDING CHAIROpen
90/019,957May 14, 202510,787,879FRACTURING FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEMOpen
90/019,937Apr 29, 202511,162,320FRACTURING FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEMOpen
90/019,894Mar 31, 202512,012,273RECYCLABLE INSERT FOR SHIPPING CONTAINEROpen
90/019,868Feb 27, 202512,146,549RINGLIKE FABRIC BELT TRACTION CHAIN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF11 moClosed
90/019,832Jan 30, 202511,846,483FIREARM WITH AN AMBIDEXTROUS SLIDE STOPOpen
90/019,828Jan 22, 202512,055,365LOCKING ADJUSTMENT DEVICEOpen
90/019,821Jan 20, 20257,503,696PACK SEALING METHOD AND DEVICEOpen

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