Featured Posts
- Facebook Loses Reexaminations of Pragmatus’ Patents
- How is Reexamination Treating Round Rock Research?
- Reexamination has not Saved Apple against MobileMedia Patents, So Far
- What is an “Involved Application” in IPR Practice?
- Apple Victorious over Affinity Labs of Texas’ Portable Audio Player Patent
- Think IP Strategy Offers 2011 News Almanac
- An Update on Oracle’s Infringement Case against Google
- PTO Requests Public Comment on Proposed Rules for AIA Post-Issuance Proceedings
- Microsoft-i4i, Oracle-Google & VirnetX-Apple-Cisco Updates
- Oracle Patent to Emerge from Reexamination
- VirnetX again Sues for Infringement, and again Faces Reexaminations
- How Strong are Google’s Requests for Reexamination of the Lodsys Patents?
- PTO Board Sides with NVIDIA on Two Rambus “Barth I” Patents
- Oracle ‘520 Moves toward Confirmation in Reexamination
- Google Gets Mixed Result against Oracle’s Seventh Patent
- Did Google Request Reexamination of Lodsys Patents?
- Two Updates
- Oracle v. Google Android® Update
- Rambus Wins Limited Exclusion Order at ITC against NVIDIA, despite Pending Reexaminations
- 最初が肝心：不備のない再審査請求書を作成するために
- That’s My Patent You’re Reexamining…
- “Why Wait for Oppositions?” by Scott Daniels, 47 IDEA 343 (Law Review of Franklin Pierce Law School)
- The Basics
Noteworthy Links
- "The Interplay between Reexaminations, Preliminary Injunctions and Stays of Litigation" - by Dennis Crouch at PATENTLYO.COM
Favorite Patent Blogs
- All Things Pros
- CAFC Alert
- FDA Law Blog
- IPWatchdog
- Patent Docs
- Patently-O
- PLI Patent Law Practice Center
- Think IP Strategy
- US Patent Post-Grant Opposition
Recent Requests
PTO Statistics
Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of July 5th
| July 14, 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. 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 inter partes requests were made:
(1) 95/001,388 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,606,382 owned by Hear-Wear Technologies LLC and entitled BTE/CIC AUDITORY DEVICE AND MODULAR CONNECTOR SYSTEM THEREFOR. Filed July 1, 2010 by K/S HIMPP.
(2) 95/001,391 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,155,439 owned by Wellogix Technology Licensing, LLC and entitled MODULAR AND CUSTOMIZABLE PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING FIELD DOCUMENTATION DATA IN A COMPLEX PROJECT WORKFLOW SYSTEM. Filed July 7, 2010 by SAP America, Inc. The ‘439 patent (along with the ‘029 patent – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled SAP America, Inc. v. Wellogix, Inc. (S.D. Tex., Case No. 4:10-cv-01224, filed Apr. 15, 2010).
(3) 95/001,392 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,293,029 owned by Wellogix Technology Licensing, LLC and entitled MODULAR AND CUSTOMIZABLE PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING FIELD DOCUMENTATION DATA IN A COMPLEX PROJECT WORKFLOW SYSTEM. Filed July 8, 2010 by SAP America, Inc. The ‘029 patent (along with the ‘439 patent – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled SAP America, Inc. v. Wellogix, Inc. (S.D. Tex., Case No. 4:10-cv-01224, filed Apr. 15, 2010).
(4) 95/000,554 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(5) 95/000,555 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,717,813 having Marc F. Sinovich as its named inventor and entitled BASES FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL. Filed June 25, 2010.
And the following ex parte requests were made:
(1) 90/011,083 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(2) 90/011,084 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,369,547 owned by Evans Capacitor Company, Inc. and entitled CAPACITOR. Filed July 7, 2010.
(3) 90/011,085 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,737,181 owned by Evans Capacitor Company, Inc. and entitled CAPACITOR. Filed July 7, 2010.
(4) 90/011,086 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,310,544 owned by DexCom, Inc. and entitled METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INSERTING A TRANSCUTANEOUS ANALYTE SENSOR. Filed July 8, 2010.
(5) 90/011,087 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,338,106 owned by PACT XXP Technologies, AG and entitled I/O AND MEMORY BUS SYSTEM FOR DFPS AND UNITS WITH TWO OR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PROGRAMMABLE CELL ARCHITECTURES. Filed July 8, 2010. The ‘106 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled PACT XXP Technologies, AG v. Xilinx, Inc. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 2:07-cv-00563-CE, filed Dec. 28, 2007).
(6) 90/011,088 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,378,043 owned by General Motors Corporation and entitled VEHICLE PIVOTAL HEADREST. Filed July 9, 2010.
(7) 90/011,089 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,084,180 owned by Battelle Memorial Institute and entitled FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS USING MICROCHANNEL TECHNOLOGY AND NOVEL CATALYST AND MICROCHANNEL REACTOR. Filed July 9, 2010 by CompactGTL plc.
(8) 90/011,090 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,611,214 owned by Battelle Memorial Institute and entitled MICROCOMPONENT SHEET ARCHITECTURE. Filed July 9, 2010 by CompactGTL plc.
(9) 90/011,091 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,045,486 owned by Battelle Memorial Institute and entitled CATALYST STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS. Filed July 9, 2010 by CompactGTL plc.
(10) 90/009,768 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,315,616 owned by Japan Aviation Electronics Industries, Ltd. and entitled PLUG CONNECTOR AND SOCKET CONNECTOR. Filed June 25, 2010.
(11) 90/009,770 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(12) 90/009,772 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(13) 90/009,773 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,816,356 owned by Presidio Components, Inc. and entitled INTEGRATED BROADBAND CERAMIC CAPACITOR ARRAY. Filed July 2, 2010.
