Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Patent reexamination counsel·8 ex parte reexams

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has served as patent-owner counsel in 8 USPTO ex parte reexaminations. The firm most often represents Nextec Applications, Inc., UNWIRED PLANET IP MANAGER, LLC, and Protek Innovations LLC. 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 (8)

Control #FiledPatentTitleOwnerStatus
90/013,951Jun 30, 20179,337,530Cover for converting electromagnetic radiation in electronic devicesProtek Innovations LLCClosed
90/013,512Jun 9, 20156,363,419METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IDLE LOOP SCREEN DISPLAYS ON MOBILE WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICESUNWIRED PLANET IP MANAGER, LLCClosed
90/013,407Nov 24, 20147,813,714APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING A COMMON DATABASE FROM A MOBILE DEVICE AND A COMPUTING DEVICEUNWIRED PLANET IP MANAGER, LLCClosed
90/013,099Dec 19, 20137,885,635MOBILE DEVICE FOR ACCESSING A COMMON DATABASE AND A COMPUTING DEVICEUnwired Planet, LLCClosed
90/013,009Sep 30, 20136,888,460ADVERTISING TRAYS FOR SECURITY SCREENINGSecurityPoint Holdings, Inc.Closed
90/012,968Sep 3, 20135,004,643SILICONE POLYMER-INTERNALLY COATED WEBSNextec Applications, Inc.Closed
90/012,914Jul 3, 20136,129,978POROUS WEBS HAVING A POLYMER COMPOSITION CONTROLLABLY PLACED THEREINNextec Applications, Inc.Closed
90/012,094Jan 13, 20125,869,172INTERNALLY-COATED POROUS WEBS WITH CONTROLLED POSITIONING OF MODIFIERS THEREINNextec Applications, Inc.Closed

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