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.
Filings by year
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 # | Filed | Patent | Title | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90/013,951 | Jun 30, 2017 | 9,337,530 | Cover for converting electromagnetic radiation in electronic devices | Protek Innovations LLC | Closed |
| 90/013,512 | Jun 9, 2015 | 6,363,419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IDLE LOOP SCREEN DISPLAYS ON MOBILE WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICES | UNWIRED PLANET IP MANAGER, LLC | Closed |
| 90/013,407 | Nov 24, 2014 | 7,813,714 | APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING A COMMON DATABASE FROM A MOBILE DEVICE AND A COMPUTING DEVICE | UNWIRED PLANET IP MANAGER, LLC | Closed |
| 90/013,099 | Dec 19, 2013 | 7,885,635 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR ACCESSING A COMMON DATABASE AND A COMPUTING DEVICE | Unwired Planet, LLC | Closed |
| 90/013,009 | Sep 30, 2013 | 6,888,460 | ADVERTISING TRAYS FOR SECURITY SCREENING | SecurityPoint Holdings, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/012,968 | Sep 3, 2013 | 5,004,643 | SILICONE POLYMER-INTERNALLY COATED WEBS | Nextec Applications, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/012,914 | Jul 3, 2013 | 6,129,978 | POROUS WEBS HAVING A POLYMER COMPOSITION CONTROLLABLY PLACED THEREIN | Nextec Applications, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/012,094 | Jan 13, 2012 | 5,869,172 | INTERNALLY-COATED POROUS WEBS WITH CONTROLLED POSITIONING OF MODIFIERS THEREIN | Nextec Applications, Inc. | Closed |
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