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Sony Attack On Walker Digital Patent Among Reexamination Requests for Week of 9/26/11

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

Earlier this year Walker Digital (of Priceline.com fame) sued Sony and others for infringement a patent claiming an apparatus for providing information to a customer about a video program.  Sony has now replied to that suit by requesting reexamination of theWalker patent (see ex parte Request No. (10)).

Reexamination was also requested for three more Round Rock Research patents, related to different technologies (see ex parteRequest Nos. (2), (3) & (4)).  Round Rock bought the three patents from Micron.  It is not yet clear who has filed these reexamination requests for patents not involved in litigation. (more…)

Reexamination Requests Against MobilMedia And Round Rock Among Those Filed Week of 9/19/11

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

Last week saw a request filed by RIM against a MobileMedia patent, one of a number of mobile phone patents currently being litigated by the companies in the Eastern District of Texas (see ex parte Request No. (13)).  The MobileMedia patent, like several of those patents-in-suit, was originally assigned to Nokia.

An unnamed party filed a request against a Round Rock Researchpatent for electronic tracking (see ex parte Request No. (12)).

And CareFusion filed two requests against Vesta Medical patents for medical waste disposal systems (see ex parte Request Nos. (10) & (11)).  CareFusion set a record, we think, in August when it requested reexamination of 27 Vesta patents. (more…)

Requests For Reexamination Of Four Round Rock Patents Among Those Filed Week of 9/12/11

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

Requests for reexamination were filed against four RFID patents owned by patent-holding/enforcement company Round Rock Research (see ex parte Request Nos. (1), (2), (4), & (5)).  The requests do not indicate who filed them, and the patents does not appear to be the subject of pending litigation, raising the prospect of a party simply targeting Round Rock patents.Rou

Earlier this year, Universal Electronics sued Logitech in the Central District of California for infringement of three touch-pad patents. Logitech has now replied by seeking reexamination of those patents (see inter partes Request Nos. (7), (8) & (9)).

Google, Apple and Quattro teamed up to request reexamination of a StreetSpace patent for online advertising (see inter partesRequest No. (10)).  The parties are currently in litigation over that patent in the Southern District of California.

And yet another reexamination request was filed in the long, on-going war between Abbott Diabetes Care and DexCom over analyte measuring devices (see ex parte Request No. (9)). (more…)