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Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of May 24th
| June 2, 2010
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.
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 inter partes requests were made:
(1) 95/001,358 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(2) 95/001,360 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,540,166 owned by Technologies Holding Corp. and entitled ENHANCED PERFORMANCE DEHUMIDIFIER. Filed May 26, 2010 by Abatement Technologies, Inc. The ‘166 patent (along with the ‘389 and ‘503 patents – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Therma-Stor LLC v. Abatement Technologies, Inc. (N.D. Ga., Case No. 1:10-cv-00035-TWT, filed Jan. 6, 2010).
(3) 95/001,361 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,281,389 owned by Technologies Holdings Corp. and entitled ENHANCED PERFORMANCE DEHUMIDIFIER. Filed May 26, 2010 by Abatement Technologies, Inc. The ‘389 patent (along with the ‘166 and ‘503 patents – see above and below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Therma-Stor LLC v. Abatement Technologies, Inc. (N.D. Ga., Case No. 1:10-cv-00035-TWT, filed Jan. 6, 2010).
(4) 95/001,362 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,246,503 owned by Technologies Holdings Corp. and entitled ENHANCED PERFORMANCE DEHUMIDIFIER. Filed May 26, 2010 by Abatement Technologies, Inc. The ‘503 patent (along with the ‘166 and ‘389 patents – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Therma-Stor LLC v. Abatement Technologies, Inc. (N.D. Ga., Case No. 1:10-cv-00035-TWT, filed Jan. 6, 2010).
(5) 95/001,363 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,781,231 owned by Knowles Electronics LLC and entitled MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM PACKAGE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL AND INTERFERENCE SHIELD. Filed May 27, 2010.
(6) 95/001,364 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(7) 95/001,365 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,242,089 owned by Knowles Electronics LLC and entitled MINIATURE SILICON CONDENSER MICROPHONE. Filed May 28, 2010 by BSE Co., Ltd.
(8) 95/001,366 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,715,020 owned by Rambus Inc. and entitled SYNCHRONOUS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE. Filed May 28, 2010 by NVIDIA Corporation. The ‘020 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Rambus Inc v. NVIDIA Corporation (N.D. Cal., Case No. 3:08-cv-03343-SI, filed July 10, 2008).
(9) 95/001,367 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,809,227 owned by ExxonMobil Chemical Company and entitled METHOD FOR INCREASING LIGHT OLEFIN YIELD BY CONVERSION OF A HEAVY HYDROCARBON FRACTION OF A PRODUCT TO LIGHT OLEFINS. Filed May 28, 2010 by UOP LLC.
(10) 95/001,368 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,808,692 owned by Hazelmere Research Ltd. and entitled ENHANCED MERCURY CONTROL IN COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS. Filed May 28, 2010.
(11) 95/000,543 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,993,661 having Simson L. Garfinkel as its named inventor and entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT PROVIDES FOR THE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE SANITIZING OF DISK STORAGE UNITS AND THE LIKE. Filed May 24, 2010.
(12) 95/000,544 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
And the following ex parte requests were made:
(1) 90/010,995 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(2) 90/010,999 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(3) 90/011,000 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(4) 90/011,010 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,544,352 owned by Software Rights Archive, LLC and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING, SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING DATA. Filed May 24, 2010 by Google Inc. The ‘352 patent (along with the ‘571 and ‘494 patents – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 2:07-cv-00511-CE, filed Nov. 21, 2007).
(5) 90/011,011 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,241,034 owned by Balther Technologies, LLC and entitled AUTOMATIC DIRECTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE HEADLIGHTS. Filed May 25, 2010.
(6) 90/011,012 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,233,571 owned by Software Rights Archive, LLC and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING, SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING DATA. Filed May 25, 2010 by Google Inc. The ‘571 patent (along with the ‘352 and ‘494 patents – see above and below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 2:07-cv-00511-CE, filed Nov. 21, 2007).
(7) 90/011,013 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,584,100 owned by D & D Group Pty Ltd and entitled HINGE. Filed May 26, 2010 by Nationwide Industries, Inc. The ‘100 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled D & D Group Pty Ltd v. Nationwide Industries, Inc. (S.D. Cal., Case No. 3:08-cv-00236-MMA-POR, filed Feb. 6, 2008).
(8) 90/011,014 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,832,494 owned by Software Rights Archive, LLC and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING, SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING DATA. Filed May 26, 2010 by Google Inc. The ‘494 patent (along with the ‘352 and ‘571 patents – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 2:07-cv-00511-CE, filed Nov. 21, 2007).
(9) 90/011,015 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,182,109 owned by Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG and entitled FILLING PIPE DISCHARGE NOZZLE. Filed May 28, 2010 by the patent owner.
(10) 90/011,016 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,109,414 owned by The Personalized Mass Media Corporation and entitled SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODS. Filed May 28, 2010. The ‘414 patent is currently the subject of three litigations, styled: Personalized Media Communications, L.L.C. v. Motorola, Inc. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 2:08-cv-00070-CE, filed Feb. 19, 2008); Personalized Media Communications, L.L.C. v. Scientific Atlanta, Inc. (N.D. Ga., Case No. 1:02-cv-00824-CAP, filed Mar. 28, 2002); and Pegasus Development Corp. v. DIRECTV, Inc. (D. Del., Case No. 1:00-cv-01020-GMS, filed Dec. 4, 2000).
(11) 90/011,017 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(12) 90/011,018 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,867,253 owned by Applied Elastomerics, Inc. and entitled TEAR RESISTANT CRYSTALLINE MIDBLOCK COPOLYMER GELS AND ARTICLES. Filed May 28, 2010.
(13) 90/009,739 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,242,089 owned by Knowles Electronics, LLC and entitled MINIATURE SILICON CONDENSER MICROPHONE. Filed May 5, 2010. The ‘089 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Knowles Electronics LLC v. Analog Devices Inc. (N.D. Ill., Case No. 1:09-cv-06238, filed Oct. 6, 2009).
(14) 90/009,748 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(15) 90/009,749 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(16) 90/009,750 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(17) 90/009,751 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,206,349 owned by Sulzer Chemtech AG and entitled FLUID-FLUID CONTACTING APPARATUS. Filed May 21, 2010.
(18) 90/009,752 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,675,589 owned by Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. and entitled FREEZE-CRUSTING PROCESS. Filed May 21, 2010.
(19) 90/009,753 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,504,451 owned by Rockwood Clay Additives GmbH and entitled FIRE RETARDANT COMPOSITIONS. Filed May 25, 2010.
