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PTO Statistics
Requests Filed the Week of February 1st
| February 9, 2010
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly requests that involve copending District Court litigation, is unfair. We will therefore review the Patent Office files each week to identify both ex parte and inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week. In some cases, the information available from the Patent Office is still incomplete.
Notable among the filings were an inter partes request filed jointly by Google and Microsoft and two ex parte requests filed by Texas Instruments for two of its own semiconductor patents.
This past week, the following inter partes requests were made:
(1) 95/001,305 – U.S. Patent No. 7,187,948 owned by Skullcandy and entitled PERSONAL PORTABLE INTEGRATOR FOR MUSIC PLAYER AND MOBILE PHONE. Filed February 2, 2010, CSR, Inc.
(2) 95/001,306 – U.S. Patent No. 7,395,090 owned by Skullcandy and entitled PERSONAL PORTABLE INTEGRATOR FOR MUSIC PLAYER AND MOBILE PHONE. Filed February 2, 2010, by CSR, Inc.
(3) 95/001,307 – U.S. Patent No. 7,542,610 owned by Like.com and entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF IMAGES WITH RECOGNITION ANALYSIS. Filed February 2, 2010.
(4) 95/001,308 – U.S. Patent No. 7,043,450 owned by Paid Search Engine and entitled PAID SEARCH ENGINE BID MANAGEMENT. Filed February 2, 2010 by Microsoft and Google.
(5) 95/001,309 – U.S. Patent No. 7,559,414 owned by SRAM and entitled SYMMETRIC MASTER CYLINDER LEVER FOR A HYDRAULIC DISC BRAKE. Filed February 5, 2010, by Shimano.
And the following ex parte requests were made:
(1) 90/010,843 – U.S. Patent No. 6,113,717 owned by Kimberley-Clark and entitled METHOD OF MAKING REFASTENABLE PANT-LIKE DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLES. Filed February 1, 2010.
(2) 90/010,844 – U.S. Patent No. 5,598,138 owned by Joseph Jaronczyk and entitled FAULT-INDICATING BLADE FUSE. Filed February 1, 2010.
(3) 90/010,845 – U.S. Patent No. 6,958,515 owned by Texas Instruments and entitled N-CHANNEL LDMOS WITH BURIED P-TYPE REGION TO PREVENT PARASITIC BIPOLAR EFFECTS. Filed February 2, 2010, by Texas Instruments.
(4) 90/010,846 – U.S. Patent No. 7,468,045 owned by Texas Instruments and entitled N-CHANNEL LDMOS WITH BURIED P-TYPE REGION TO PREVENT PARASITIC BIPOLAR EFFECTS. Filed February 2, 2010, by Texas Instruments.
(5) 90/010,847 – Information unavailable.
(6) 90/010,848 – U.S. Patent No. 5,657,076 owned by Hollis Tapp and entitled SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM. Filed February 2, 2010.
(7) 90/010,849 – U.S. Patent No. 6,304,975 owned by Peter Shipley and entitled INTELLIGENT NETWORK SECURITY DEVICE AND METHOD. Filed February 3, 2010.
(8) 90/010,850 – U.S. Patent No. 5,235,635 owned by Saxon Innovations and entitled KEYPAD MONITOR WITH KEYPAD ACTIVITY-BASED ACTIVATION. Filed February 4, 2010.
(9) 90/010,851 – U.S. Patent No. 7,467,229 owned by Direct Route and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING NETWORK ADDRESSES. Filed February 4, 2010.
(10) 90/010,852 – U.S. Patent No. 6,497,861 owned by Color Access and entitled STABLE COSMETIC EMULSION WITH POLYAMIDE GELLING AGENT. Filed February 5, 2010.
(11) 90/010,853 – U.S. Patent No. 7,496,960 owned by Trend Micro and entitled TRACKING AND REPORTING OF COMPUTER VIRUS INFORMATION. Filed February 6, 2010.
