Catherine Michelle Tarae
USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2026
Catherine Michelle Tarae is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 55 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 18 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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- 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
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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 55)
| Control # | Filed | Patent | Title | Pendency | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90/016,357 | May 29, 2026 | 11,597,402 | CONTROLLING DRIVING MODES OF SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES | — | Open |
| 90/016,353 | May 29, 2026 | 9,027,032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY TO EXISTING SOFTWARE IN AN INTEGRATED MANNER | — | Open |
| 90/016,209 | Apr 24, 2026 | 8,725,700 | CLEARINGHOUSE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING OR PROVIDING QUALITY OR PERFORMANCE DATA FOR ENHANCED AVAILABILITY OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | — | Open |
| 90/016,210 | Apr 24, 2026 | 8,224,794 | CLEARINGHOUSE SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROCESS FOR INVENTORYING AND ACQUIRING INFRASTRUCTURE, MONITORING AND CONTROLLING NETWORK PERFORMANCE FOR ENHANCEMENT, AND PROVIDING LOCALIZED CONTENT IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS | — | Open |
| 90/016,150 | Apr 3, 2026 | 10,937,018 | KIT, SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND SERVICE FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS | — | Closed |
| 90/016,151 | Apr 3, 2026 | 10,796,296 | KIT, SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND SERVICE FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS | — | Closed |
| 90/016,112 | Apr 1, 2026 | 12,156,730 | PATIENT INCONTINENCE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND INCONTINENCE PADS | — | Open |
| 90/016,029 | Mar 6, 2026 | 10,880,592 | Digital contents receiving apparatus | — | Open |
| 90/015,972 | Feb 19, 2026 | 10,963,911 | MEDIA USAGE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | — | Open |
| 90/015,916 | Jan 26, 2026 | 9,945,520 | LED TUBE LAMP | — | Open |
| 90/015,864 | Jan 7, 2026 | 10,958,296 | DIGITAL MULTI-BAND PREDISTORTION LINEARIZER WITH NON-LINEAR SUBSAMPLING ALGORITHM IN THE FEEDBACK LOOP | — | Open |
| 90/015,865 | Jan 7, 2026 | 9,641,204 | DIGITAL MULTI-BAND PREDISTORTION LINEARIZER WITH NONLINEAR SUBSAMPLING ALGORITHM IN THE FEEDBACK LOOP | — | Open |
| 90/015,773 | Dec 23, 2025 | 12,273,182 | FREQUENCY CONVERSION SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/015,729 | Nov 26, 2025 | 11,562,402 | ADVERTISING MODEL | — | Open |
| 90/015,677 | Nov 12, 2025 | 10,904,103 | ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS FOR MEETINGS | — | Open |
| 90/015,607 | Oct 17, 2025 | 11,122,418 | Systems and methods for locating cellular phones and security measures for the same | — | Open |
| 90/015,528 | Sep 19, 2025 | 8,998,100 | Infusion System Configured for Transfer of Data | — | Open |
| 90/015,419 | Jul 31, 2025 | 12,278,868 | REMOTE FLASHING DURING INFUSION | — | Open |
| 90/019,999 | Jun 16, 2025 | 7,315,747 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD PROVIDING AVAILABILITY DATA IN A MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT | — | Open |
| 90/019,993 | Jun 11, 2025 | 8,401,571 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM | — | Open |
| 90/019,871 | Mar 7, 2025 | 11,551,215 | FRAUD DETERRENCE FOR SECURE TRANSACTIONS | 11 mo | Closed |
| 90/019,772 | Dec 13, 2024 | 9,299,044 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE FIELD ASSETS VIA WIRELESS HANDHELD DEVICES | 11 mo | Closed |
| 90/019,699 | Oct 11, 2024 | 11,463,768 | Adaptive Digital Media Content Presentation and Control Platform | 15 mo | Closed |
| 90/019,580 | Jul 16, 2024 | 6,647,270 | VEHICLETALK | 9 mo | Closed |
| 90/019,491 | Apr 22, 2024 | 11,468,497 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA AT A MERCHANT DEVICE FROM A USER DEVICE OVER A WIRELESS LINK | 9 mo | Closed |
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