Patent Law Practice Center

RIM Challenge of Two SimpleAir Patents Among the Reexamination Requests Filed Week of 5/9/11

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

RIM has requested reexamination of SimpleAir’s U.S. Patent Nos. 6,021,433 and 6,735,614 that claim contact alerts for incoming messages (see ex parte Request No. (15) & inter partes Request No. (5)).  SimpleAir has accused Apple, RIM, Facebook and a number of others in the Eastern District of Texas of infringement of the ‘614 and ‘433 patents, as well as two other patents.

The week also saw yet another round in the war between Abbott Diabetes Care and DexCom over analyte sensors (see ex parte Request No. (5)).

And Square, Inc. requested reexamination of three REM Holdings patents for reader cards for cell phones (see inter partes Request Nos. (2), (3) & (4)), which are the subject of an infringement dispute between those companies in the Eastern District of Missouri. (more…)

Medtronic’s Attacks On Edwards Lifescience’s Heart Valve Patents Among Reexamination Requests Filed Week of 5/2/11

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

Medtronic has requested reexamination of two Edwards Lifesciences’ patents claiming heart valve systems for implantation, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,582,462 & 7,789,909 (see inter partes Request Nos. (3) & (4).  The two companies are long-time rivals in that market and are currently in litigation in Delaware regarding the ‘462 and ‘909 patents.

There were also requests for reexamination of patents involved in infringement disputes that we have been tracking.  One is U.S. Patent No. 7,349,012 which is one of the many patents in the litigation between MobileMedia Ideas and RIM (see inter partes Request No. (2)).  The other is U.S. Patent No. 7,917,186 owned by DexCom which is in litigation against Abbott Diabetes Care (see ex parte Request No. (6)). (more…)

Acer & Microsoft Attacks On Mediostream Video Recording Patent Among Reexamination Requests Filed Week Of January 31, 2011

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

On January 7, 2011, Apple requested reexamination of MedioStream’s U.S. Patent No. 7,843,508 covering a way of recording video data directly onto disks.  Now, both Acer and Microsoft have filed their own requests for reexamination of the ‘508 patent (inter partes Request Nos. (2) & (5)).  Each of these new requestors has been accused by MedioStream of infringing the ‘508 patent.  These requests continue a trend among the huge electronic companies, especially Apple, of using reexamination to reply to infringement allegations.

As an update to our posts of June 30 & November 9, 2010 and January 19, 2011 – regarding inter partes reexamination requests filed by Whirlpool against four LG refrigerator patents – Judge Garrett Brown, in a parallel infringement action between the parties in the District Court of New Jersey, has denied Whirlpool’s motion to stay the case pending completion of the reexamination proceedings.  Judge Brown explained that inter partes reexaminations “could take more than five years if the parties fully exhaust their appeal rights” and that delay could cause LG irreparable loss because the parties are direct competitors: “[t]he goodwill lost during the reexamination proceedings could be difficult to measure and difficult to compensate fully with money damages after trial.” (more…)