William V Gilbert

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2023 to 2026

William V Gilbert is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 35 ex parte reexaminations between 2023 and 2026, with 27 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
21
25
5
26

Technology mix

Mechanical Engineering21 (60%)
Life Sciences & Consumer6 (17%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing4 (11%)
Construction & Mining3 (9%)
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
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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 35)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,015Apr 6, 20269,777,979MONOLITHIC NOISE SUPPRESSION DEVICE FOR FIREARMOpen
90/016,013Apr 6, 20269,470,466MONOLITHIC NOISE SUPPRESSION DEVICE FOR FIREARMOpen
90/016,014Apr 6, 20269,982,959MONOLITHIC 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
90/019,808Jan 13, 202512,036,079ATTACHMENT FOR AN ORAL CARE DEVICE HANDLE12 moClosed

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