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Examiner: Mackey, Patrick


Primary examiner statistics: 1378 patents; average approval time: 1377 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 289 patents; average approval time: 858 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8109496 Sheet processing apparatus and methods for allowing sheet removal...
8109674 Bearing assembly having a dual stage seal
8104757 Sheet finishing apparatus, sheet finishing method, and image form...
8104755 Adjustable delivery web conversion apparatus and method
8104758 Sheet finisher and image forming system provided therewith
8104756 Method and apparatus for selecting media trays for hole punching ...
8100392 Image forming apparatus, method and computer-readable storage med...
8100394 Method and device for affixing a marking ribbon to a book or a br...
8100291 Upright rotatable product carrousel dispensing device
8100393 Sawtooth jog for multi-copy/multi-set output
8091882 Sheet finishing apparatus and control method
8087653 Method and arrangement for producing printed products
8087541 Automatic product vending machine
8087655 Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus with movab...
8083219 Internal warming-up method and sheet post-processing apparatus in...
8079583 Compiling belt system with moving stapler
8070013 Cutlery utensil dispensing apparatus and method
8061557 Golf ball dispenser for golf bag
8047522 Clamp for perfect binder and perfect binding method
8047400 Gravity-feed display and dispensing
8047524 Openable sheet processing apparatus
8047523 Sheet loading apparatus, sheet post-processing apparatus and imag...
8042795 Transporting apparatus for discrete sheets into envelopes and rel...
8042707 Automated toothpick dispenser
8038137 Device with a displaceable stacking device or charging device to ...
8038138 Holding unit having delayed conveyance time
8033538 Method and apparatus for producing printed products including wir...
8033539 Pressdown cam for post processing device
8028984 Sheet finishing apparatus and control method
8028982 Method and system for simultaneously processing letters and flat ...
8020844 Printer and control method for printer
8020847 Multiple delivery web conversion apparatus and method of producin...
8006970 Processing of stacks of sheets of securities into bundles and pac...
8002257 Web conversion and collating apparatus and method
8002269 Sheet supplying apparatus
7992747 Product dispenser assembly and cartridge for holding product
7992856 Gripper discharge for sheet processing apparatus
7992854 Sheet buffering system
7988138 Gatherer stitcher with variable chain pitch
7984899 Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6895303 Process for controlling the conveying speed of a transporting tra...
6752289 Lottery ticket machine
6601847 Flats bundle collator
6594545 Data processing apparatus, image recording apparatus, method of c...
6581922 Sheet processing apparatus above image forming means and image fo...
6575445 Jacket-laying-on device for bookbinding machines
6572093 Gather-stitcher machine and method for producing a header index f...
6565078 Device for feeding sheets from a ream of the type comprising a ma...
6557847 Right angle stager apparatus
6547236 Pick-up mechanism and a method for performing a pick-up cycle in ...
6511062 Presentation control for flat article singulation mechanism and s...
6508465 Sheet feeder with dynamic speed control
6502813 Coupon booklet and method
6502812 Method and apparatus for separating a collation from a supply sta...
6499731 High speed pusher apparatus for sheet feeders
6485010 Method and apparatus for separating a stream of documents into di...
6481704 Setting an apparatus for assembling mail items
6474633 Stapler with interchangeable cartridges
6467763 System for assembling collation sets from a split web
6464449 Collating apparatus with error detection
6460842 Device for superposing sheets of paper or the like
6460844 Cut sheet streamer and merger
6460843 Paperback finishing machine
6457705 Sheet post processing device with feed out
6454257 Article jogging apparatus
6450492 Method and apparatus for set binding, stapling and stacking
6446832 Virtual multihopper card feeder
6446953 Process for combining printed products
6443447 Method and device for moving cut sheets in a sheet accumulating s...
6445975 Carrier route optimization system
6427997 Sheet stacker with aligning/conveying rollers and image forming a...
6422552 Movable folders and former board arrangement
6422553 Sheet post-processing apparatus
6422554 Document feeder with pivoted lever
6421582 Print system and a sheet-processing device suitable for such a pr...
6419218 Streamfeeder signature long tail trimmer
6418357 Method for synchronizing an envelope inserter
6412655 Towel dispenser
6406013 Sheet post-processing with feed-in and feed-out openings relative...
6402136 Apparatus for merging multiple streams of documents into a single...
 
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