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Cary Ellen Wehner

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2020

Cary Ellen Wehner is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 40 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2020. These reexams concentrate in Life Sciences & Consumer, Mechanical & Manufacturing, and Physics & Instruments. ExamPat indexes the full prosecution record for each of these cases, including office-action grounds, certificate outcomes, and downstream PTAB and federal-circuit decisions.

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Technology mix

Life Sciences & Consumer30 (75%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing6 (15%)
Physics & Instruments3 (8%)
Construction & Mining1 (3%)

Compare against all examiners

Eight side-by-side metrics: case volume, pendency, OAs per reexam, rejection mix, SNQ denial rate, certification rate, and PTAB appeal rate, with a Δ column showing where this examiner runs higher or lower than the corpus.

  • Average and median pendency, both for this examiner and the corpus
  • Rejection basis split (102 / 103 / 112) head-to-head
  • Certification, SNQ denial, and PTAB appeal rates

Certificate outcome distribution

How this examiner's certificates split across the six possible outcomes: all claims confirmed, confirmed with amendment, confirmed with new claims, mixed, or all claims canceled. Includes share comparison to the corpus distribution.

  • Count and share for each of the six outcome buckets
  • Δ vs. corpus distribution in percentage points
  • Useful for setting realistic patent-owner expectations

Event-to-event timing

Median time for this examiner's cases at each prosecution stage, from filing to first office action, filing to NIRC, and filing to certificate, with corpus comparison and sample size.

  • Median in months per transition
  • Side-by-side with the corpus median
  • n column showing how many of this examiner's cases completed each transition

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Certificate outcome distribution

Event-to-event timing (median)

Recent reexaminations (showing 25 of 40)

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Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/014,530Jun 12, 20207,022,100GUIDABLE INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP AND RELATED METHODS10 moClosed
90/014,483Mar 27, 20208,215,865ANTI-RAM SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION4 moClosed
90/014,415Nov 26, 20199,107,997MEDICAL FUNCTIONAL DEVICE, TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD13 moClosed
90/014,384Sep 26, 201910,238,783GUIDABLE INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP AND RELATED METHODS14 moClosed
90/014,358Aug 6, 20197,730,562PATIENT SUPPORT HAVING POWERED ADJUSTABLE WIDTH16 moClosed
90/014,357Aug 6, 20197,406,729PATIENT SUPPORT HAVING POWERED ADJUSTABLE WIDTH16 moClosed
90/014,315Jun 14, 201910,179,007Reinforcing Slider For Surgical Hand Tool—Closed
90/014,246Dec 18, 20186,887,007HAND-HELD BODY WASHING DEVICE6 moClosed
90/014,199Sep 10, 20188,636,158DUAL CHAMBER NURSING BOTTLE13 moClosed
90/014,169Jul 17, 20188,122,923SAFETY DRUG HANDLING DEVICE12 moClosed
90/014,154Jun 19, 20186,193,631FORCE SCRIPT IMPLEMENTATION OVER A WIDE AREA NETWORK8 moClosed
90/014,089Feb 27, 20189,795,210Expandable carry pouch with variable compression8 moClosed
90/014,050Nov 22, 20176,041,953CONTAINERS AND CLOSURES THEREFOR11 moClosed
90/013,946Apr 28, 20176,398,548METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREMENTALLY MOVING TEETH12 moClosed
90/013,947Apr 28, 20175,975,893Method and system for Incrementally Moving Teeth11 moClosed
90/013,898Feb 3, 20179,161,876METHOD OF SECURING A PATIENT ONTO AN OPERATING TABLE WHEN THE PATIENT IS IN THE TRENDELENBURG POSITION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR INCLUDING A KIT1 moClosed
90/013,884Dec 22, 20169,361,816DECORATIVE DETECTABLE WARNING PANEL HAVING IMPROVED GRIP12 moClosed
90/013,854Oct 31, 20169,315,279CONTAINER FOR TRANSPORTING ITEMS OF LUGGAGE IN A SORTING SYSTEM AND SORTING SYSTEM18 moClosed
90/013,783Jul 22, 20166,092,884Door for Cabinet and Method of Constructing Same10 moClosed
90/013,771Jun 28, 20165,601,557ANCHORING AND MANIPULATING TISSUE17 moClosed
90/013,693Feb 16, 20166,527,166BOX WITH A HINGED LID, FOR CIGARETTES21 moClosed
90/013,641Dec 7, 20155,601,557ANCHOR AND MANIPULATING TISSUE23 moClosed
90/013,605Oct 8, 20157,470,236ELECTROMYOGRAPHY SYSTEM30 moClosed
90/013,506May 11, 20156,626,666METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREMENTALLY MOVING TEETH36 moClosed
90/013,505May 8, 20158,070,487SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING TEETH21 moClosed

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