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Reexamination Request Against Taser Patent Among Those Filed Week of October 11th

Here is the latest  installment of Reexamination Requests from our friends at Reexamination Alert….

The clear stand-out among the reexamination requests filed last week was one against U.S. Patent No. 6,999,295, the patent for the famous Taser® stun gun, owned by Taser International.  The preamble of one of the ‘295 claims euphemistically recites a “dual operating mode electronic disabling device for immobilizing a target.”  Taser successfully sued Stinger Systems in Arizona for infringement of the ‘295 patent, culminating in an infringement judgment in August.  Taser owns another patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,102,870, claim 3 of which has been held to be invalid as obvious over the prior art.

A request was also filed against Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 (Ex parte No. 10).  As reported by our friend Gene Quinn in IPWatchdog, Apple has sued HTC and Exeda for infringement of the ‘647 patent, among many other patents. (more…)