Patent Law Practice Center

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…)