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Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of June 14th
| June 23, 2010
Notable among the requests from last week is a request filed by Mylan against Pfizer for a patent covering Pfizer’s CADUET® blood pressure treatment composition, U.S. Patent No. 6,455,574. Pfizer sued Mylan earlier this year for infringement of that patent. Also notable are three requests filed by Furuno against Honeywell patents that are the subject of a law suit between the companies.
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for requests that involve copending District Court litigation, is too long. We therefore report new ex parte and inter partes reexamination requests filed electronically the previous week as they appear on the Patent Office PAIR system. Information on concurrent litigation is also provided, where available.
Some reexamination requests are still filed by paper. Because of the time required for the Patent Office to review such paper requests before posting on PAIR, our report may come three weeks after filing. The information available from the Patent Office may be incomplete in a few cases because not all the reexamination request papers have yet been posted on PAIR. There may also be gaps in the Patent Office docket numbers listed because, for any of various reasons, a reexamination request has been assigned a docket number but is not ready for posting.
The following ex parte requests were made:
(1) 90/011,031 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,599,726 owned by DexCom, Inc. and entitled SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ANALYTE SENSOR DATA. Filed June 14, 2010 by Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
(2) 90/011,032 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,375,006 owned by Thomson Consumer Electronics S.A. and entitled TWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICES WITH OPTICAL AXIS OF BIREFRINGENT LAYER INCLINED WITH RESPECT TO BIREFRINGENT LAYER NORMAL. Filed June 14, 2010 by Jeff Cho.
(3) 90/011,033 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,822,523 owned by PalTalk Holdings, Inc. and entitled SERVER-GROUP MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS. Filed June 14, 2010.
(4) 90/011,034 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,631,656 owned by Honeywell Inc. and entitled FAIL SAFE SYSTEM WITH COMMON MODE AVOIDANCE. Filed June 14, 2010 by Furuno.
(5) 90/011,035 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,080,119 owned by Sanuwave, Inc. and entitled PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING SHOCK WAVES FOR MEDICAL USES. Filed June 14, 2010 by SwiTech Medical AG.
(6) 90/011,036 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,822,523 owned by PalTalk Holdings, Inc. and entitled SERVER-GROUP MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS. Filed June 14, 2010. The ‘523 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Paltalk v. Sony et al. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 2:09-cv-274-DF-CE, filed Sep. 14, 2009).
(7) 90/011,037 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,533,432 owned by Lift-U, division of Hogan Mfg., Inc. and entitled COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLY FOR A FOLD OUT RAMP. Filed June 14, 2010 by the patent owner.
(8) 90/011,038 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,533,433 owned by Lift-U, division of Hogan Mfg., Inc. and entitled COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLY FOR A FOLD OUT RAMP. Filed June 14, 2010 by the patent owner.
(9) 90/011,039 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,533,434 owned by Lift-U, division of Hogan Mfg., Inc. and entitled COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLY FOR A FOLD OUT RAMP. Filed June 14, 2010 by the patent owner.
(10) 90/011,040 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,681,272 owned by Lift-U, division of Hogan Mfg., Inc. and entitled COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLY FOR A FOLD OUT RAMP. Filed June 14, 2010 by the patent owner.
(11) 90/011,041 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,653,947 owned by Honeywell International Inc. and entitled APPARATUS FOR THE DISPLAY OF WEATHER AND TERRAIN INFORMATION ON A SINGLE DISPLAY. Filed June 15, 2010 by Furuno. The ‘947 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Honeywell International Inc. v. Furuno Electric Co. (D. Minn., Case No. 0:09-cv-03601-MDJ-AJB, filed Dec. 16, 2009).
(12) 90/011,042 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,828,992 owned by Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and entitled USER INTERFACE WITH DYNAMIC MENU OPTION ORGANIZATION. Filed June 14, 2010 by the patent owner.
(13) 90/011,043 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,289,277 owned by Honeywell Inc. and entitled INTERFACES FOR PLANNING VEHICLE ROUTES. Filed June 15, 2010 by Furuno. The ‘277 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Honeywell International Inc. v. Furuno Electric Co. (D. Minn., Case No. 0:09-cv-03601-MDJ-AJB, filed Dec. 16, 2009).
(14) 90/011,045 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,135,240 owned by Safespan Platform Systems, Inc. and entitled BRIDGE PLATFORM. Filed June 15, 2010 by Bridge Platforms, Inc. The ‘240 patent (along with the ‘237 patent – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Safespan Platform Systems, Inc. v. EZ Access, Inc. (W.D.N.Y., Case No. 1:06-cv-00726-RJA-HBS, filed Oct. 31, 2006).
(15) 90/011,046 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,640,152 owned by Copper Innovations Group, LLC and entitled HAND HELD COMPUTER INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD. Filed June 15, 2010.
(16) 90/011,047 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,302,237 owned by Safespan Platform Systems, Inc. and entitled BRIDGE PLATFORM. Filed June 15, 2010 by Bridge Platforms, Inc. The ‘237 patent (along with the ‘240 patent – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Safespan Platform Systems, Inc. v. EZ Access, Inc. (W.D.N.Y., Case No. 1:06-cv-00726-RJA-HBS, filed Oct. 31, 2006).
(17) 90/011,048 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,611,654 owned by Philips Electronics North America Corporation and entitled TIME-AND LOCATION-DRIVEN PERSONALIZED TV. Filed June 15, 2010 by the patent owner.
(18) 90/011,049 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,785,281 owned by Honeywell, Inc. and entitled LEARNING AUTOPILOT. Filed June 15, 2010 by Furuno. The ‘281 patent (along with the ‘317 patent – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Honeywell International Inc. v. Furuno Electric Co. (D. Minn., Case No. 0:09-cv-03601-MDJ-AJB, filed Dec. 16, 2009).
(19) 90/011,050 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,617,317 owned by Honeywell, Inc. and entitled TRUE NORTH HEADING ESTIMATOR UTILIZING GPS OUTPUT INFORMATION AND INERTIAL SENSOR SYSTEM OUTPUT INFORMATION. Filed June 15, 2010 by Furuno. The ‘317 patent (along with the ‘281 patent – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Honeywell International Inc. v. Furuno Electric Co. (D. Minn., Case No. 0:09-cv-03601-MDJ-AJB, filed Dec. 16, 2009).
(20) 90/011,051 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,117,041 owned by CareFusion 303, Inc. and entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROGRAMMING A CLINICAL DEVICE. Filed June 16, 2010.
(21) 90/011,052 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,096,072 owned by CareFusion 303, Inc. and entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING MEDICATION DELIVERY TO A PATIENT. Filed June 16, 2010.
(22) 90/011,053 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,455,574 owned by Pfizer Inc. and entitled THERAPEUTIC COMBINATION. Filed June 17, 2010, presumably by Mylan. The ‘574 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Pfizer v. Mylan (D. Del., Case No. 1:10-cv-00085-UNA, filed Feb. 3, 2010), involving Pfizer’s Caduet®.
(23) 90/011,054 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,292,125 owned by Brooks & Kushman and entitled APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY CONNECTING REMOTELY LOCATED VIDEO GAMES. Filed June 18, 2010 by Microsoft. The ‘125 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Hochstein v. Microsoft, Case No. 08-10331/04-73071 (E.D. Mich.).
(24) 90/009,749 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. RE 38,290 owned by NEXomni, LLC and entitled PERSONAL COMPUTER DATA STORAGE CARD AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING INFORMATION BETWEEN THE DATA STORAGE CARD AND PERSONAL COMPUTERS. Filed May 22, 2010.
