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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.

Filings by year

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Technology mix

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

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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.

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  • 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 — 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

Recent reexaminations (showing 25 of 40)

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
90/013,947Apr 28, 20175,975,893Method and system for Incrementally Moving Teeth11 moClosed
90/013,946Apr 28, 20176,398,548METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREMENTALLY MOVING TEETH12 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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