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Catherine Michelle Tarae

USPTO Patent Examiner·Active 2012 to 2026

Catherine Michelle Tarae is a USPTO patent examiner who has handled 52 ex parte reexaminations between 2012 and 2026, with 15 currently open. These reexams concentrate in Physics & Instruments, Electrical & Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering. 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 & Instruments29 (54%)
Electrical & Electronic19 (35%)
Mechanical Engineering2 (4%)
Mechanical & Manufacturing2 (4%)
Life Sciences & Consumer1 (2%)

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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.

  • 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 — 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 52)

Control #FiledPatentTitlePendencyStatus
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
90/016,151Apr 3, 202610,796,296KIT, SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND SERVICE FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS—Closed
90/016,150Apr 3, 202610,937,018KIT, SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND SERVICE FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS—Closed
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
90/015,916Jan 26, 20269,945,520LED TUBE LAMP—Open
90/015,864Jan 7, 202610,958,296DIGITAL MULTI-BAND PREDISTORTION LINEARIZER WITH NON-LINEAR SUBSAMPLING ALGORITHM IN THE FEEDBACK LOOP—Open
90/015,865Jan 7, 20269,641,204DIGITAL MULTI-BAND PREDISTORTION LINEARIZER WITH NONLINEAR 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
90/015,528Sep 19, 20258,998,100Infusion System Configured for Transfer of Data—Open
90/015,419Jul 31, 202512,278,868REMOTE FLASHING DURING INFUSION—Open
90/019,993Jun 11, 20258,401,571MOBILE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM—Open
90/019,871Mar 7, 202511,551,215FRAUD DETERRENCE FOR SECURE TRANSACTIONS11 moClosed
90/019,772Dec 13, 20249,299,044SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MOBILE FIELD ASSETS VIA WIRELESS HANDHELD DEVICES11 moClosed
90/019,699Oct 11, 202411,463,768Adaptive Digital Media Content Presentation and Control Platform15 moClosed
90/019,580Jul 16, 20246,647,270VEHICLETALK9 moClosed
90/019,491Apr 22, 202411,468,497SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA AT A MERCHANT DEVICE FROM A USER DEVICE OVER A WIRELESS LINK9 moClosed
90/019,439Mar 4, 202410,593,196SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED APPLIANCE CONTROL21 moClosed
90/019,357Dec 28, 20239,633,302RFID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WITH CHANNELS FOR REDUCING MISALIGNMENT12 moClosed
90/015,290Aug 31, 202310,321,198SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEALING WITH ONLINE ACTIVITY BASED ON DELIVERY OF A TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT8 moClosed

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