Challenges to 5 Ronald Katz Telephone Patents, Among the Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of December 19, 2011
Here is our latest weekly installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
Perhaps more than any other inventor, Ronald Katz has been the target of rivals’ requests for reexamination. This was certainly true this past week, when requests were filed against five Katz telephone system patents (see ex parte Request Nos. (1), (3) to (5) & (10)). According to Patent Office assignment records, the five patents are owned by General Electric Capital.
Vicor requested reexamination of a SynQor power converter patent (see inter partes Request No. (5)). Synqor has sued a number of companies, including Ericsson, for infringement of that patent.
And Ford has requested reexamination of a GM patent for a car body structure, specifically a roof panel-side frame construction (see inter partes Request No. (3)).
LG Attack on Whirlpool Refrigerator Patent, Among the Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of Dec. 5, 2011
Here is our latest weekly installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
LG has requested reexamination of Whirlpool patent for icemakers (see inter partes Request No. 3). The Whirlpool patent is already the subject of a declaratory judgment action in Delaware, also filed by LG. The two companies have been involved in a series of disputes over refrigerator patents.
Hitachi Koki has requested reexamination of seven Milwaukee Electronic Tool patents for lithium battery packs for hand-tools (see inter partes Request Nos. (8) to (10) and ex parte Request Nos. (5) to (8)). Milwaukee has sued Hitachi in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for infringing the patents
Reexamination was also requested for two Ronald Katz patents for a telephonic lottery (see ex parte Request Nos. (3) & (4). Katzpatents have been the subject of quite a number of reexaminations over the years. (more…)
12.14.11 | Reexamination, Reexamination Requests, USPTO | Mark Dighton
Attack on Lam Research Plasma Processing Patent, Among the Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of Nov. 28, 2011
Here is our latest weekly installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment has requested reexamination of Lam Research’s U.S. Patent No. 5,998,932 related to plasma processing equipment (see ex parte Request No. (6)). Lam has sued AMFE for infringement of the Taiwanese counter-part patent and might soon sue in the United States for infringement of the ‘932 patent.
Reexamination was also requested for a Xerox patent (see inter partes Request No. (5)), but the identity of the requester is not shown in the PTO records.
The following inter partes requests were filed: (more…)
Augme Attack on Yahoo! Streaming Media Patents among the Reexamination Requests Filed Week of 10/24/11
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
Last week Augme upped the ante in its patent fight with Yahoo! by requesting reexamination of two Yahoo! streaming media patents (see inter partes Request Nos. ((4) & (5)). Yahoo! has accused Augme and its partner World Talk Radio of infringing the patents by operating websites and related infrastructure that employ Augme’s “BoomBox” technology. The accused websites are VoiceAmericaTM and World Talk RadioTM Network.
Cisco has requested reexamination of a VirnetX network protocol patent – U.S. Patent No. 7,188,180 – which is one of six VirnetX patents in litigation in the Eastern District of Texas (see inter partes Request No. (2)). Cisco’s request follows requests from the previous week by Apple regarding two other VirnetX network protocol patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 7,418,504 and 7,921,211. (more…)
11.4.11 | posts, Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine
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…)
10.28.11 | posts, Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine
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12.28.11 | Reexamination, Reexamination Requests | Mark Dighton