Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Patent reexamination counsel·17 ex parte reexams
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP has served as patent-owner counsel in 17 USPTO ex parte reexaminations. The firm most often represents Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Kymab Limited, and General Electric Company. 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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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 (17)
| Control # | Filed | Patent | Title | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90/014,171 | Jul 20, 2018 | 6,287,313 | Screw Delivery System and Method | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/014,172 | Jul 20, 2018 | 6,562,046 | Screw Delivery System and Method | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/014,132 | May 17, 2018 | 6,287,313 | SCREW DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/014,131 | May 1, 2018 | 6,562,046 | SCREW DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/014,017 | Sep 29, 2017 | 9,040,052 | Precision Medicine by Targeting Rare Human PCSK9 Variants for Cholesterol Treatment | Kymab Limited | Closed |
| 90/013,979 | Jul 10, 2017 | 8,951,523 | Targeting Rare Human PCSK9 Variants for Cholesterol Treatment | Kymab Limited | Closed |
| 90/013,963 | Jun 14, 2017 | 8,883,157 | Targeting Rare Human PCSK9 Variants for Cholesterol Treatment | Kymab Limited | Closed |
| 90/013,232 | May 7, 2014 | 6,951,682 | Porous Coatings Bearing Ligand Arrays and Use Thereof | Syntrix Biosystems, Inc. | Closed |
| 90/012,880 | May 24, 2013 | 7,629,705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING ELECTRICAL MACHINES | General Electric Company | Closed |
| 90/012,828 | Apr 3, 2013 | 7,874,487 | INTEGRATED ILLUMINATION ASSEMBLY FOR SYMBOLOGY READER | Cognex Technology and Investment LLC | Closed |
| 90/012,748 | Dec 24, 2012 | 7,943,945 | SOLID STATE WHITE LIGHT EMITTER AND DISPLAY USING SAME | CREE, INC. | Closed |
| 90/012,746 | Dec 20, 2012 | 7,615,795 | SOLID STATE WHITE LIGHT EMITTER AND DISPLAY USING SAME | CREE, INC. | Closed |
| 90/012,704 | Oct 15, 2012 | 8,143,015 | METHODS OF CLEAVING DNA WITH RATIONALLY-DESIGNED MEGANUCLEASES | DUKE UNIVERSITY | Closed |
| 90/020,027 | Oct 5, 2012 | 8,021,867 | RATIONALLY-DESIGNED MEGANUCLEASES WITH ALTERED SEQUENCE SPECIFICITY AND DNA-BINDING AFFINITY | DUKE UNIVERSITY | Closed |
| 90/012,623 | Sep 14, 2012 | 7,458,025 | USER INTERFACE FOR PRESENTING MEDIA INFORMATION | Apple Inc. | Closed |
| 90/012,587 | Sep 14, 2012 | 7,629,705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING ELECTRICAL MACHINES | General Electric Company | Closed |
| 90/012,324 | May 30, 2012 | RE42,738 | PORTABLE COMPUTERS | Apple Inc. | Closed |
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