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Samsung Attack On Two Mobile Phone Antenna Patents Owned By Fractus Among The Reexamination Requests Filed The Week Of November 8th

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

Last year Fractus S.A of Spain sued Samsung and a host of other mobile telephone makers in the Eastern District of Texas for infringing nine patents related to internal antennas for mobile telephones.  Samsung has now filed reexamination requests against two of those Fractus patents (Inter partes Request Nos. (1) & (2) below).  Requests for reexamination have now been filed against all nine Fractus patents-in-suit.

Also of special interest are reexamination requests filed by TiVo against two EchoStar patents for TV programming (Ex parte Request Nos. (3) & (5) below).

The following inter partes requests were filed: (more…)