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…)
Auburn V. IBM Among The Reexamination Requests Filed Week Of March 14, 2011
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor….
Auburn v. IBM is not a “sweet-sixteen” match-up. It’s an infringement litigation pending in the District Court in Alabama since 2009. IBM has now requested reexamination of Auburn’s patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 7,194,366 & 7,409,306, both claiming ways of estimating the reliability of integrated circuits and thereby reducing the cost of making chips (see inter partes Request Nos. (2) & (3)).
Xilinx continued its assault on Intellectual Ventures’ patents – this week requesting reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 7,080,301 (see inter partes Request No. (7)), and perhaps U.S. Patent Nos. 6,065,880 and 6,687,865 (see ex parte Request Nos. (16) & (18)). The PTO records are, as yet, unclear regarding the requester of the latter two requests, but it appears to have been Xilinx.
Apple, the clear leader in recent times in the number of requests filed, continued its practice of seeking reexamination of each patent-in-suit whenever it is sued (see ex parte Request Nos. (10), (11) & (13)). Other noteworthy requests include those filed against Lincoln Globaland 3M patents (see inter partes Request Nos. (1) & (11) and ex parteRequest No.(1)). (more…)
03.25.11 | Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine
Facebook Challenges To Three “Human Relationships” Patents, Among Reexamination Requests Filed Week Of FEBRUARY 7th
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor….
This past Monday having been Valentine’s Day, we couldn’t help noticing the requests (see inter partes Request Nos. (1) to (3)) filed last week by Facebook against three patents owned by Mekiki Creates for computer systems for “registering human relationships.” Facebook and Mekiki are currently in a relationship in an infringement suit in the Northern District of California. Also look at inter partes Request No. (6) for a gem cutting apparatus patent.
The following inter partes requests were filed:
(1) 95/001,537 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,496,603 entitled HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER and owned by Mekiki Creates. Filed February 7, 2011, byFacebook, Inc. The ‘603 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Mekiki Co., Ltd. And Mekiki Creates Co., Ltd v. Facebook, Inc. (No 10-cv-2721-LHK (USDC- No. Dist. Of Cal)). (more…)
02.18.11 | posts, Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine
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