McDonald Hopkins, LLC

Patent reexamination counsel·9 ex parte reexams

McDonald Hopkins, LLC has served as patent-owner counsel in 9 USPTO ex parte reexaminations. The firm most often represents Hy-Ko Products Company LLC, Nsixty LLC, and Twin-Star International Inc.. ExamPat indexes the full prosecution record for each proceeding, including office-action grounds, certificate outcomes, and downstream PTAB and Federal Circuit decisions.

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Top patent owners represented

Outcome track record

How this firm's reexams resolve once a certificate issues: all claims confirmed, amended, mixed, or canceled.

  • Certificate outcome split across every bucket
  • Share of proceedings where claims survived

Practice metrics

Certificate rate, average pendency, and the open/closed split across the firm's full reexam docket.

  • Certificate rate of closed proceedings
  • Average pendency in months

Examiners & adversaries

Which examiners most often decide this firm's reexams, and which requesters most often challenge its patents.

  • Most frequent examiners
  • Top opposing requesters

Recent reexaminations (9)

Control #FiledPatentTitleOwnerStatus
90/019,111Sep 15, 20229,656,332KEY DUPLICATION MACHINEHy-Ko Products Company LLCClosed
90/019,112Sep 6, 20229,682,432KEY DUPLICATION MACHINEHy-Ko Products Company LLCClosed
90/019,113Sep 6, 20229,687,920KEY DUPLICATION MACHINEHy-Ko Products Company LLCClosed
90/019,110Sep 2, 202210,421,133KEY DUPLICATION MACHINEHy-Ko Products Company LLCClosed
90/014,649Jan 7, 202110,883,722ELECTRIC FIREPLACE LIGHTING SYSTEMTwin-Star International Inc.Closed
90/014,603Nov 3, 20209,301,636BEVERAGE PRESSGrant F. VarnumClosed
90/014,295May 1, 201910,091,855MANUALLY CONTROLLABLE LED CORRELATED COLOR TEMPERATURE LIGHT FIXTUREEti Solid State Lighting Inc.Closed
90/014,031Oct 11, 20179,313,456VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAMENsixty LLCClosed
90/014,030Oct 11, 20178,619,115VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAMENsixty LLCClosed

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