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Attack On Famous Funai Digital TV Patent Among Reexamination Requests Filed Week Of January 3rd

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

Funai’s U.S. Patent No. 5,329,369 for digital television picture compression has been the subject of three District Court cases and an ITC investigation.  In October, the PTO Board of Appeals ruled in a reexamination proceeding that claims 1-18 were invalid over the prior art.  Now, a third party has requested reexamination of the remaining ‘369 patent claims 19-29 for a video signal processor (see ex parte Request No. (8)).

Apple requested reexamination of MedioStream’s U.S. Patent No. 7,843,508 (see inter partes Request No. (4)), in response to MedioStream’s infringement action against Apple, Microsoft and others.

The following inter partes requests were filed:

(1)       95/001,518 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,037,321 entitled MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SLOTTED MEMORY METAL TUBE and owned by EVM Systems, LLC. Filed January 5, 2011, by.  The ‘321 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled EVM Systems, LLC v. Cordis Corp. et al., (Case No. 6:10-cv-00437 (E.D. Tex.)). (more…)