VW Challenge to Flexible Car Warning Light Among Reexamination Requests Filed Week of 9/6/11
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
In January, the company Effectively Illuminated Pathways, LLC. sued Aston Martin of North America, Bentley and Volkswagen of America (Bentley’s parent company) for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,520,669 for a flexibly mounted warning light for cars, presumably rather up-scale cars. VW has now replied to that law suit by requesting reexamination of the ‘669 patent (see inter partes Request No. (1)), the request asserting 92 substantial new questions of patentability and weighing in at 1630 pages counting claim charts.
Cisco requested reexamination of a VirnetX patent (see inter partesRequest No. (10)) in a dispute described in greater detail in our second item posted today. And SanDisk sought reexamination of a flash memory Netac patent (see inter partes Request No. (11)).
Also of interest last week was the fact that there were 16 inter partes reexamination requests and only 6 ex parte requests. Normally, the ex parte cases exceed the inter partes. Perhaps requesters are coming to the conclusion that full participation in the reexamination outweighs the risk of statutory estoppel attaching tointer partes requests. (more…)
Requests Against Three Philips’ Green LED Patents Among Those Filed Week Of 8/29/11
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
The war between Koninklijke Philips and Seoul Semiconductor over “green” light-emitting diodes (LEDs) intensified last week when Seoul Semi requested reexamination of three Philips’ patents – U.S. Patent No. 6,274,924, 6,547,249 and 6,590,235 (see inter partes Request Nos. (3) & (4) and ex parte Request No. (6)). Philips has accused Seoul Semi in the Northern District of California of infringing the ‘249 and ‘235 patents, plus two other patents, and Seoul Semi has counter-claimed for infringement of one of its own patents.
The following inter partes requests were filed:
(1) 95/001,730 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,405,704 entitled INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH LIMITED TEMPERATURE CYCLE and owned by Kruse. Filed August 29, 2011, by Ford. The ‘704 patent is currently the subject of two litigations styled Kruse Tech. Part. v. Daimler AG(Case No. 8:10-cv-1215 (C.D. Cal.)); Kruse Tech. Part. v. Ford(Case No. 8:10-cv-1066 (C.D. Cal.)). (more…)
09.8.11 | Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine
Attack On VTRAX Patent Among Reexamination Requests Filed Week Of 8/22/11
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
The sole business of vTRAX appears to be the enforcement of a single patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,865,268 covering systems for call-tracking in virtual call-centers. Pending in the Southern District of Florida are two actions in which vTRAX has accused Siemens, CSX, Avaya and a number of others of infringing the ‘268 patent. Now, a reexamination has been requested of the ‘268 patent (see ex parte Request No. (15)). We strongly expect that the defendants will soon move to stay both cases, particularly in view of the Southern District of Florida’s record of granting such motions.
(1) 95/001,721 (electronically filed) U.S. Patent No. 7,923,390 entitled Electrical Shielding Material Composed of Metallized Stainless Steel Monofilament Yarn and owned by Micrometal Technologies. Filed August 22, 2011, by Syscom Advanced Materials.
(2) 95/001,722 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,978,954 entitled DETECTOR FOR A SHREDDER and owned byFellowes. Filed August 23, 2011, by ACCO Brands. The ‘954 patent is currently the subject of two litigations styled Fellowes v. ACCO Brands (Case No. 1:10-cv-7587 (N.D. Ill.)) and Royal Appliance Mfg. v. Fellowes (Case No. 1:11-cv-1276 (N.D. Ohio)). (more…)
08.30.11 | Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine
Hewlett-Packard Reexamination Request Of Princeton Digital Patent Among Requests Filed Week of 8/8/11
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
Hewlett-Packard has sought reexamination of Princeton Digital’s U.S. Patent No. 4,813,056 for digital signals used in cameras, camcorders, copiers, scanners and various multifunction devices (see ex parte Request No. (7)). The ‘056 patent, originally owned by General Electric, is the subject of two infringement actions by Princeton in the Eastern District of Texas, against a slew of consumer electronics companies including HP, Ricoh, Kodak, andFujifilm. Canon is reported this morning to have settled its case.
Garmin has requested reexamination of its own patent for a sports computer with GPS (see ex parte Request No. 6). Presumably,Garmin is attempting to beat Bryton, whom Garmin has sued for infringement of that patent, to the punch.
Finally, there were reports over the weekend that Google had requested reexamination against two Lodsys patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 7,222,078 & 7,620,565 – that Lodsys has asserted against a large group of small makers of applications for Android®. Google’s Requests, however, are not yet available. (more…)
08.16.11 | Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine
Requests for Reexamination of 27 Vesta Medical Patents Among those Filed Week of 8/1/11
Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…
It was a quiet week on the new reexamination front, except that CareFusion requested reexamination of 27 Vesta Medical patents related to disposal of medical waste. This does not appear, however, to have been done with hostile intent since Vesta is a subsidiary of CareFusion.
Hostile intent was clearly in evidence, on the other hand, when SAP America requested reexamination of a new Wellogix patent (see inter partes Request No. (1)). For good measure, on the same day, SAP filed a declaratory judgment action against the same Wellogix patent.
Finally, Reexamination was requested against an Intellectual Ventures patent related to field-programmable gate arrays (see ex parte Request No. (32)). Last December IV sued Altera and two other companies for infringing on that patent, as well as four other patents. Since reexamination has now been requested against all five IV patents-in-suit, one or more of the parties might now seek a stay of the litigation pending completion of the reexaminations. (more…)
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09.15.11 | Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine