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REQUESTS FILED LAST WEEK
| March 11, 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 too long. We will therefore report new ex parte and inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week as they appear on the Patent Office EFS. In some cases, the information available from the Patent Office is still incomplete.
This past week, the following inter partes requests were made:
(1) 95/001,318 – U.S. Patent No. 7,486,625 owned by Net Optics, Inc. and entitled COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TAP WITH LINK FAULT DETECTOR. Filed March 2, 2010.
(2) 95/001,319 – U.S. Patent No. 7,133,293 owned by Ultra Products, Inc. and entitled PERSONAL COMPUTER POWER SUPPLY INSTALLED WITHIN A CASE OF A PERSONAL COMPUTER. Filed March 2, 2010.
(3) 95/001,320 – U.S. Patent No. 7,181,866 owned by Glide’n Lock GmbH and entitled OUTSOLE. Filed March 3, 2010 by K-Swiss Inc.
(4) 95/001,321 – U.S. Patent No. 6,972,116 owned by HMT Holding AG and entitled DEVICE FOR PRODUCING ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES IN AN AQUEOUS MEDIUM. Filed March 3, 2010.
(5) 95/001,322 – U.S. Patent No. 6,135,904 owned by Ryan G. Guthrie and entitled BICYCLE DERAILLEUR CHAIN DAMPER. Filed March 5, 2010 by Shimano, Inc.
(6) 95/001,323 – U.S. Patent No. 7,571,060 owned by Gemological Institute of America and entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEMSTONE CUT GRADING. Filed March 5, 2010 by Garry Ian Holloway.
And the following ex parte requests were made:
(1) 90/010,881 – U.S. Patent No. 5,390,173 owned by Enterasys Networks, Inc. and entitled PACKET FORMAT IN HUB FOR PACKET DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM. Filed March 1, 2010 by Brocade Communication Systems, Inc.
(2) 90/010,883 – U.S. Patent No. RE36,978 owned by Jerry Moscovitch/Mass Engineered Design, Inc. and entitled DUAL DISPLAY SYSTEM. Filed March 2, 2010 by Spaceco Business Solutions, Inc.
(3) 90/010,884 – U.S. Patent No. 6,719,443 owned by Winvic Sales, Inc. and entitled ELECTRICALLY ILLUMINATED FLAME SIMULATOR. Filed March 3, 2010 by ValueVision Media, Inc.
(4) 90/010,885 – U.S. Patent No. 7,448,085 owned by Trend Micro Incorporated and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MALICIOUS CONTENT IN PROTECTED ARCHIVES. Filed March 4, 2010 by Fortinet, Inc.
(5) 90/010,886 – U.S. Patent No. 6,407,079 owned by Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. and entitled PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING DRUGS WHICH ARE INSTABLE OR SPARINGLY SOLUBLE IN WATER AND METHODS FOR THE PREPARATION. Filed March 4, 2010.
(6) 90/010,887 – U.S. Patent No. 5,075,684 owned by Motorola, Inc. and entitled SELECTIVE CALL MESSAGE MANAGEMENT. Filed March 5, 2010 by Research in Motion.
(7) 90/010,888 – U.S. Patent No. 5,974,447 owned by Motorola, Inc. and entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COUPLING A SELECTIVE CALL RECEIVER TO WIDELY DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SOURCES. Filed March 5, 2010 by Research in Motion.
(8) 90/010,889 – U.S. Patent No. 5,958,006 owned by Motorola, Inc. and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING SUMMARIZED DATA. Filed March 5, 2010 by Research in Motion.
