Patent Law Practice Center

Apple Requests For Reexamination Of MONKEYMedia Patents Among Those Filed Week Of December 6th

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

When sued for patent infringement, Apple’s strategy this year has been to request reexamination of the patents-in-suit as soon as possible.  It repeated that strategy this week by filing inter partesr equests against two MONKEY Media patents (see Inter partes Request Nos. (3) & (5))..

DNA2.0, Inc. has requested reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 5,786,464 owned by NIH for “Over-expression of Mammalian and Viral Proteins” (see Ex parte Request No. (12)).   An ironic aspect of this conflict is that DNA2.0 is a past recipient of grant money from NIH.  (more…)