Patent Law Practice Center

Apple Reexamination Requests Of Two VirnetX Patents Among Those Requested Week Of 10/17/11

Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…

Apple has requested reexamination of two more VirnetX network protocol patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 7,418,504 and 7,921,211 (see inter partes Request Nos. (2) & (3)).  VirnetX has sued Apple and several others for infringement of the ‘504 and ‘211 patents, as well as four other related patents.  Three of the other VirnetX patents-in-suit are in reexamination, and a fourth emerged from reexamination earlier this year with the validity of its claims confirmed.

CSR Technology has requested reexamination of two Bandspeed patents claiming methods for selecting communications channels based on use, in products such as computers and mobile telephones.  (see inter partes Request Nos. (5) & (6)).  Bandspeed has sued 38 companies for infringement of the patents, among them Acer, Dell, HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG, RIM and Samsung. (more…)