Catherine Michelle Tarae

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2026

Catherine Michelle Tarae is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 62 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 22 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Physics & Instruments, Electrical & Electronic, and Mechanical & Manufacturing. 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

Physics & Instruments33 (52%)
Electrical & Electronic22 (34%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing5 (8%)
Mechanical Engineering2 (3%)
Life Sciences & Consumer1 (2%)

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 62)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
90/016,608Sep 23, 202610,046,696AUTOMATIC CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES—Open
90/016,535Aug 19, 202611,670,127SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAIL-IN BALLOT STATUS REPORTING—Open
90/016,534Aug 18, 202612,340,633SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAIL-IN BALLOT STATUS REPORTING—Open
90/016,474Jul 16, 202611,120,271DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED AUGMENTATION OF INTERACTIVE VIDEO CONTENT—Open
90/016,412Jun 22, 202610,821,853VEHICLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS—Closed
90/016,357May 29, 202611,597,402CONTROLLING DRIVING MODES OF SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES—Open
90/016,353May 29, 20269,027,032SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY TO EXISTING SOFTWARE IN AN INTEGRATED MANNER—Closed
90/016,210Apr 24, 20268,224,794CLEARINGHOUSE SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROCESS FOR INVENTORYING AND ACQUIRING INFRASTRUCTURE, MONITORING AND CONTROLLING NETWORK PERFORMANCE FOR ENHANCEMENT, AND PROVIDING LOCALIZED CONTENT IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS—Open
90/016,209Apr 24, 20268,725,700CLEARINGHOUSE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING OR PROVIDING QUALITY OR PERFORMANCE DATA FOR ENHANCED AVAILABILITY OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS—Open
90/016,150Apr 3, 202610,937,018KIT, SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND SERVICE FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS—Open
90/016,151Apr 3, 202610,796,296KIT, SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND SERVICE FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS—Open
90/016,112Apr 1, 202612,156,730PATIENT INCONTINENCE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND INCONTINENCE PADS—Open
90/016,029Mar 6, 202610,880,592Digital contents receiving apparatus—Open
90/015,972Feb 19, 202610,963,911MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD—Open
90/015,959Feb 12, 20266,546,397BROWSER BASED WEB SITE GENERATION TOOL AND RUN TIME ENGINE—Open
90/015,916Jan 26, 20269,945,520LED TUBE LAMP—Open
90/015,865Jan 7, 20269,641,204DIGITAL MULTI-BAND PREDISTORTION LINEARIZER WITH NONLINEAR SUBSAMPLING ALGORITHM IN THE FEEDBACK LOOP—Open
90/015,864Jan 7, 202610,958,296DIGITAL MULTI-BAND PREDISTORTION LINEARIZER WITH NON-LINEAR SUBSAMPLING ALGORITHM IN THE FEEDBACK LOOP—Open
90/015,773Dec 23, 202512,273,182FREQUENCY CONVERSION SYSTEM—Open
90/015,729Nov 26, 202511,562,402ADVERTISING MODEL—Open
90/015,677Nov 12, 202510,904,103ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS FOR MEETINGS—Open
90/015,607Oct 17, 202511,122,418Systems and methods for locating cellular phones and security measures for the same—Open
90/015,601Oct 14, 202511,234,117SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING CELLULAR PHONES AND SECURITY MEASURES FOR THE SAME—Open
90/015,528Sep 19, 20258,998,100Infusion System Configured for Transfer of Data—Open
90/015,419Jul 31, 202512,278,868REMOTE FLASHING DURING INFUSION—Open

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