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

Cisco Attack On VirnetX On Network Security Patent Among Reexamination Requests Filed Week Of 7/5/11

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

Late Friday, Cisco requested reexamination of VirnetX’s U.S. Patent No. 6,502,135 entitled “Agile network protocol for secure communications with assured system availability” (see inter partesRequest No. (6)).  The two companies are parties to an infringement action over the ‘135 patent in the Eastern District of Texas.

Shell Oil and Alcoa also countered infringement allegations by requesting reexamination of the patents-in-suit (see inter partesRequest Nos. (3) & (4)). (more…)

07.13.11 | Patent Litigation, Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine