Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of June 28th

| July 7, 2010

Noteworthy among the requests filed last week are two filed by Samsung against antenna patents owned by Fractus.  Those patents are the subject of a case pending in Texas between the two companies.  Also interesting are requests against two AstraZeneca patents for its ropivacaine local anesthetic composition.

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)   95/001,387 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,870,072 owned by ExxonMobil Chemical Company and entitled HEAT RECOVERY IN AN OLEFIN PRODUCTION PROCESS.  Filed June 29, 2010 by UOP LLC.

(2)   95/001,388 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.

(3)   95/001,389 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,123,208 owned by Fractus, S.A. and entitled MULTILEVEL ANTENNAE.  Filed July 1, 2010 by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.  The ‘208 patent (along with the ‘868 patent – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Fractus, S.A. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 6:09-cv-00203-LED-JDL, filed May 5, 2009).

(4)   95/001,390 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,015,868 owned by Fractus, S.A. and entitled MULTILEVEL ANTENNAE.  Filed July 2, 2010 by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.  The ‘868 patent (along with the ‘208 patent – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Fractus, S.A. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 6:09-cv-00203-LED-JDL, filed May 5, 2009).

(5)   95/000,553 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,705,242 owned by Advanced Technology Holdings Ltd. and entitled ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR AND CORE FOR AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR.  Filed June 21, 2010.

And the following ex parte requests were made:

(1)   90/011,068 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,670,524 owned by AstraZeneca UK Limited and entitled METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN UTILIZING ROPIVACAINE.  Filed June 28, 2010.

(2)   90/011,069 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,834,489 owned by AstraZeneca UK Limited and entitled METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN UTILIZING ROPIVACAINE.  Filed June 28, 2010.

(3)   90/011,070 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,578,439 owned by e2Interactive, Inc. and entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING STORED VALUE CARD TRANSACTIONS.  Filed June 28, 2010.

(4)   90/011,071 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,135,790 having William Fondriest as its named inventor and entitled MODULAR ELECTRICAL HARNESS FOR JET AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR SYSTEMS.  Filed June 29, 2010 by the patent owner.

(5)   90/011,072 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,536,188 owned by Steuben Foods, Inc. and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASEPTIC PACKAGING.  Filed June 29, 2010.

(6)   90/011,073 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. RE 40,384 owned by American Imaging Services, Inc. and entitled APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATING SCANNED DOCUMENTS IN A COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN SYSTEM.  Filed June 29, 2010 by Autodesk, Inc.  The ‘384 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled American Imaging Services, Inc. v. Autodesk, Inc. (N.D. Tex., Case No. 3:09-cv-00733-M-BD, filed Apr. 22, 2009).

(7)   90/011,074 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,154,718 owned by Pass & Seymour, Inc. and entitled PROTECTION DEVICE WITH POWER TO RECEPTACLE CUT-OFF.  Filed June 30, 2010.

(8)   90/011,075 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,921,337 owned by Vegas Amusement Inc. and entitled VIDEO GAMING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM.  Filed June 30, 2010 by Shuffle Master, Inc.  The ‘337 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled TableMAX IP Holdings, Inc. v. Shuffle Master, Inc. (D. Nev., Case No. 2:09-cv-01519-RLH-PAL, filed Aug. 13, 2009).

(9)   90/011,076 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,980,561 owned by DJO, LLC and entitled APPLYING THERMAL THERAPY TO LIVING TISSUE.  Filed June 30, 2010.

(10)   90/011,077 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,739,433 owned by Otis Elevator Company and entitled TENSION MEMBER FOR AN ELEVATOR.  Filed June 30, 2010 by Schindler Elevator Corporation.  The ‘433 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Schindler Elevator Corporation v. Otis Elevator Company (D.N.J., Case No. 2:09-cv-00560-DMC-JAD, filed Feb. 2, 2009).

(11)   90/011,078 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,857,348 owned by Turbocor Inc. and entitled COMPRESSOR.  Filed July 1, 2010.

(12)   90/011,079 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,405,443 owned by Volterra Semiconductor Corporation and entitled DUAL GATE LATERAL DOUBLE-DIFFUSED MOSFET (LDMOS) TRANSISTOR.  Filed July 2, 2010.

(13)   90/011,080 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,632,228 owned by DexCom, Inc. and entitled MEMBRANE FOR USE WITH IMPLANTABLE DEVICES.  Filed July 2, 2010 by Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.

(14)   90/011,081 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,163,856 owned by Volterra Semiconductor Corporation and entitled METHOD OF FABRICATING A LATERAL DOUBLE-DIFFUSED MOSFET (LDMOS) TRANSISTOR AND A CONVENTIONAL CMOS TRANSISTOR.  Filed July 2, 2010.

(15)   90/011,082 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,666,731 owned by Volterra Semiconductor Corporation and entitled METHOD OF FABRICATING A LATERAL DOUBLE-DIFFUSED MOSFET (LDMOS) TRANSISTOR AND A CONVENTIONAL CMOS TRANSISTOR.  Filed July 2, 2010.

(16)   90/009,754 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,040,180 owned by NeuralStem Biopharmaceuticals, Ltd. and entitled IN VITRO GENERATION OF DIFFERENTIATED NEURONS FROM CULTURES OF MAMMALIAN MULTIPOTENTIAL CNS STEM CELLS.  Filed June 1, 2010.

(17)   90/009,765 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,327,523 owned by Hughes Electronics Corporation and entitled OVERHEAD SYSTEM OF INCLINED ECCENTRIC GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITTING SATELLITES.  Filed June 25, 2010.

(18)   90/009,766 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,799,609 owned by Veterinary Ventures, Inc. and entitled ANIMAL WATERER.  Filed June 25, 2010.

(19)   90/009,767 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,872,244 owned by Solexa, Inc. and entitled 3’ PROTECTED NUCLEOTIDES FOR ENZYME CATALYZED TEMPLATE-INDEPENDENT CREATION OF PHOSPHODIESTER BONDS.  Filed June 25, 2010.

(20)   90/009,768 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.

(21)   90/009,769 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,808,045 owned by Solexa, Inc. and entitled COMPOSITIONS FOR ENZYME CATALYZED TEMPLATE-INDEPENDENT CREATION OF PHOSPHODIESTER BONDS USING PROTECTED NUCLEOTIDES.  Filed June 25, 2010.

(22)   90/009,770 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.

(23)   90/009,771 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,547,780 owned by CardioFocus, Inc. and entitled INFRARED LASER CATHETER SYSTEM.  Filed June 30, 2010.

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