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Xilinx Attack on Intellectual Ventures Patent, among Reexamination Requests filed Week of February 14, 2011
| February 21, 2011
Intellectual Ventures shook up the patent world in December when it filed three separate infringement suits against a series of large electronics companies. In one of the cases, Intellectual Ventures accused Altera, Microsemi and Lattice Semiconductor of infringing four patents programmable logic devices. On Tuesday of last week, Intellectual Ventures filed an amended complaint to add Xilinx as a defendant. Well, Xilinx is wasting no time, and on Friday it asked the Patent Office to reexamine one of the five patents-in-suit, U.S. Patent No. 6,272,646. Requests for reexamination of the other four patents may come soon (see inter partes Request No. (8)).
The other big news, which we reported in two posts last week, were requests by Google for reexamination of five of the seven Oracle patents-in-suit in the their case in California. (See inter partes Request No. (6) and ex parte Request Nos. (4) to (7)).
The following inter partes requests were filed:
(1) 95/001,543 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,935,546 entitled BOX SPRING STAPLER APPARATUS and owned by Imaginal Systematic, LLC. Filed, February 11, 2011, by Leggett & Platt, Inc. The ‘546 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Imaginal Systematic v. Leggett & Platt et al. (Case No. CV10-07416-RGK (C.D. Cal.)).
(2) 95/001,544 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,400,274 entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA FEED ACCELERATION AND ENCRYPTION and owned by Realtime Data. Filed February 14, 2011 by CME Group Inc., New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., and Board of Trade of City of Chicago, Inc. The ‘274 patent is currently the subject of three litigations styled Realtime Data v. Thomson Reuters (Case No. 6:09-cv-333 (E.D. Tex.)); Realtime Data v. CME Group, et al. (Case No. 6:09-cv-327 (E.D. Tex.)); and Realtime Data v. Morgan Stanley, et al. (Case No. 6:09-cv-326 (E.D. Tex.)).
(3) 95/001,545 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,887,568 entitled STACKABLE SPINAL SUPPORT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS and owned by NuVasive, Inc. Filed February 15, 2011, by Spine Wave, Inc. The ‘568 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled
(4) 95/001,546 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,467,454 entitled BOX SPRING STAPLER APPARATUS and owned by Imaginal Systematic, LLC. Filed February 16, 2011, by Leggett & Platt, Inc. The ‘454 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Imaginal Systematic v. Leggett & Platt et al. (Case No. CV10-07416-RGK (C.D. Cal.)).
(5) 95/001,547 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,222,402 entitled BOX SPRING STAPLER APPARATUS and owned by Imaginal Systematic, LLC. Filed February 16, 2011, by Leggett & Platt, Inc. The ‘402 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Imaginal Systematic v. Leggett & Platt et al. (Case No. CV10-07416-RGK (C.D. Cal.)).
(6) 95/001,548 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,910,205 entitled INTERPRETING FUNCTIONS UTILIZING A HYBRID OF VIRTUAL AND NATIVE MACHINE INSTRUCTIONS and owned by Oracle America. Filed February 17, 2011, by Google. The ‘205 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Oracle America v. Google (Case No. 3:10-cv-3561-WHA).
(7) 95/001,549 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. D622,531 entitled EURO-TOP MATTRESS DESIGN and owned by Sealy. Filed February 17, 2011, by Simmons Bedding Company. The ‘531patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Sealy v. Simmons (Case No. 1:10-cv-00702 (M.D.N.C.)).
(8) 95/001,550 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,272,646 entitled PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE HAVING AN INTEGRATED PHASE LOCK LOOP and owned by Intellectual Ventures. Filed February 18, 2011, by Xilinx. The ‘646 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Intellectual Ventures v. Altera et al. (Case No. 1:10-cv-1065-LPS (D. Del.)).
(9) 95/001,551 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,747,350 entitled Flip Chip Package Structure and owned by Taichi Holdings. Filed February 18, 2011, by Xilinx.
The following ex parte requests were filed:
(1) 90/011,486 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,315,190 entitled PWM CIRCUIT AND PWM INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR USE IN PWM CIRCUIT and owned by Richtek Technology Co. Filed February 14, 2011.
(2) 90/011,487 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,188,578 entitled INTERGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE WITH MULTIPLE HEAT DISSIPATION PATHS and owned by HTC Corporation. Filed February 14, 2011.
(3) 90/011,488 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,118,894 entitled INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROBE CARD INSPECTION SYSTEM and owned by Integrated Technology Corporation. Filed February 15, 2011.
(4) 90/011,489 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,061,520 entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING STATIC INITIALIZATION and owned by Oracle America. Filed, February 15, 2011, by Google. The ‘520 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Oracle America v. Google (Case No. 3:10-cv-3561-WHA).
(5) 90/011,490 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. Reissue 38,104 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESOLVING DATA REFERENCES IN GENERATED CODE and owned by Oracle America. Filed February 15, 2011, by Google. The ‘104 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Oracle America v. Google (Case No. 3:10-cv-3561-WHA).
(6) 90/011,491 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,125,447 entitled PROTECTION DOMAINS TO PROVIDE SECURITY IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM and owned by Oracle America. Filed February 15, 2011, by Google. The ‘447 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Oracle America v. Google (Case No. 3:10-cv-3561-WHA).
(7) 90/011,492 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,966,702 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRE-PROCESSING AND PACKAGING CLASS FILES and owned by Oracle America. Filed February 15, 2011, by Google. The ‘702 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Oracle America v. Google (Case No. 3:10-cv-3561-WHA).
(8) 90/011,493 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,161,738 entitled SECURE DOCUMENT OF VALUE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME and owned by Giesecke & Devrient GmbH. Filed February 16, 2011.
(9) 90/011,494 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,116,314 entitled FASTENER ASSEMBLY, FASTENER TAPE MATERIAL, BAG UTILIZING FASTENER TAPE MATERIAL, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF and owned by Illinois Tool Works. Filed February 17, 2011.
(10) 90/011,495 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,385,622 entitled SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REMOTELY ACCESSING A SELECTED GROUP OF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM A DATABASE and owned by Civix-DDI. Filed February 18, 2011, by Midwest Real Estate Data. The ‘622 patent is currently the subject of three litigations styled Civix-DDI v. Midwest Real Estate (Case No. 10-cv-4887 (N.D. Ill.); Civix-DDI v. hotles.com (Case No. 10-cv-6869 (N.D. Ill.); and Civix-DDI v. Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (Case No. 10-cv-433 (N.D. Ill.).
(11) 90/011,496 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,415,291 entitled SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REMOTELY ACCESSING A SELECTED GROUP OF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM A DATABASE and owned by Civix-DDI Filed February 18, 2011, by Midwest Real Estate Data. The ‘291 patent is currently the subject of three litigations styled Civix-DDI v. Midwest Real Estate (Case No. 10-cv-4887 (N.D. Ill.); Civix-DDI v. hotles.com (Case No. 10-cv-6869 (N.D. Ill.); and Civix-DDI v. Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (Case No. 10-cv-433 (N.D. Ill.).
(12) 90/011,497 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,037,321 entitled MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SLOTTED MEMORY METAL TUBE and owned by EVM Systems. Filed February 15, 2011.
(13) 90/011,498 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,348,456 entitled METHOD OF TREATING CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY IN MAMMALS AND A COMPOSITION THEREFOR and owned by DemeRex. Filed February 18, 2011, by owner.
(14) 90/011,499 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,272,728 entitled NETWORK SECURITY AND FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD and owned by iovation. Filed February 18, 2011.
(15) 90/009,875 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,223,372 entitled COMBINATION CARABINER AND TOOL DEVICE and owned by Elemental Tools. Filed February 8, 2011, likely by Fiskars. The ‘372 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Fiskars Brands v. Elemental Tool (Case No. 3:10-cv-762 (E.D. Wis.)).
