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NVIDIA Attack on Rambus Patent Among Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of October 18th
| October 26, 2010
In their litigation/reexamination wars, Rambus and NVIDIA often look like two boxers trying to slug each other into submission. That was true last Wednesday. The same day that the PTO issued its Notice of Intent to issue a reexamination certificate, confirming the claims of Rambus’ U.S. Patent No. 6,715,020, NVIDIA requested another reexamination (Inter Partes Request No. 2 below). The ‘020 patent is just one of 17 patents that Rambus has accused NVIDIA of infringing in their case pending in the Central District of California. Five of those Rambus patents in litigation were the subject of a recently settled ITC investigation. The ‘020 patent is related to Rambus’ U.S. Patent No. 7,209,997, which is also part of the California litigation and the subject of two pending reexaminations. NVIDIA is now appealing the reexamination examiner’s decision to confirm the patentability of the ‘997 claims (95/000,471).
The following inter partes requests were filed:
(1) 95/001,471 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,426,600 owned by Lautzenhiser Technologies, LLC and entitled PROPORTIONAL ACTUATOR CONTROL OF APPARATUS. Filed October 19, 2010 by PG Drives Technology, Inc. The ‘600 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Lautzenhiser Technologies, LLC v. Sunrise Medical HHG, Inc. et al. (S.D. Ind., Case No. 4:07-cv-00084-TWP-WGH, filed June 18, 2007).
(2) 95/001,472 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,715,020 owned by Rambus Inc. and entitled SYNCHRONOUS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE. Filed October 20, 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).
(3) 95/001,473 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,458,187 owned by EI-Land Corporation and entitled FORCE-RESISTING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR STRUCTURES. Filed October 22, 2010. The ‘187 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled EI-Land Corporation v. Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. et al. (E.D. Tex., Case No. 2:09-cv-00337-CE, filed Oct. 28, 2009).
(4) 95/000,575 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,424,737 owned by GraphOn Corporation and entitled VIRTUAL HOST FOR PROTOCOL TRANSFORMING TRAFFIC TRAVERSING BETWEEN AN IP-COMPLIANT SOURCE AND NON-IP COMPLIANT DESTINATION. Filed October 4, 2010. The ‘737 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Juniper Networks, Inc. v. GraphOn Corporation et al. (N.D. Cal., Case No. 3:10-cv-01412-JSW, filed Apr. 2, 2010).
(5) 95/000,577 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,289,386 owned by Netlist, Inc. and entitled MEMORY MODULE DECODER. Filed October 20, 2010.
And the following ex parte requests were filed:
(1) 90/011,279 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,488,838 owned by Battelle Memorial Institute and entitled CHEMICAL REACTOR AND METHOD FOR GAS PHASE REACTANT CATALYTIC REACTIONS. Filed October 11, 2010.
(2) 90/011,288 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,115,134 owned by Chambers Technologies, LLC and entitled CATHETER WITH FLEXIBLE TIP AND SHAPE RETENTION. Filed October 18, 2010.
(3) 90/011,289 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,083,213 having Jan Voda as its named inventor and entitled ANGIOPLASTY GUIDE CATHETER. Filed October 18, 2010. The ‘213 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Voda v. Medtronic Inc. et al. (W.D. Okla., Case No. 5:09-cv-00095-L, filed Jan. 22, 2009).
(4) 90/011,290 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,077,281 owned by the Regents of the University of Minnesota and entitled SEPTAL DEFECT CLOSURE DEVICE. Filed October 18, 2010.
(5) 90/011,291 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,514,699 owned by Life Technologies, Inc. and entitled MULTIPLEX POLYNUCLEOTIDE CAPTURE METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS. Filed October 19, 2010.
(6) 90/011,292 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,481,721 owned by NeXT Software, Inc. and entitled METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC AND DYNAMIC TRANSLATION OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE-BASED MESSAGE PASSING INTO OPERATION SYSTEM MESSAGE PASSING USING PROXY OBJECTS. Filed October 19, 2010. The ‘721 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Apple Inc. et al. v. High Tech Computer Corp. et al. (D. Del., Case No. 1:10-cv-00166-GMS, filed Mar. 2, 2010).
(7) 90/011,293 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,619,662 owned by u-blox AG and entitled METHOD OF POSITION STAMPING A PHOTO OR VIDEO CLIP TAKEN WITH A DIGITAL CAMERA. Filed October 20, 2010.
(8) 90/011,294 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,519,867 owned by Apple Inc. and entitled OBJECT-ORIENTED MULTITASKING SYSTEM. Filed October 20, 2010.
(9) 90/011,295 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,115,698 owned by MHC Investment Company and entitled APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRADING ELECTRIC ENERGY. Filed October 22, 2010.
(10) 90/011,296 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,473,744 owned by MHC Investment Company and entitled APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRADING ELECTRIC ENERGY. Filed October 22, 2010.
(11) 90/009,837 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,494,241 owned by Kenall Manufacturing Company and entitled SELECTIVELY-EXTENDABLE MODULAR LIGHTING FIXTURE AND METHOD. Filed October 13 2010. The ‘241 patent (along with the ‘055 patent – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Kenall Manufacturing Company v. H.E. Williams, Inc. (N.D. Ill., Case No. 1:09-cv-01284, filed Feb. 27, 2009).
(12) 90/009,838 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,984,055 owned by Kenall Manufacturing Company and entitled SELECTIVELY-EXTENDABLE MODULAR LIGHTING FIXTURE AND METHOD. Filed October 13, 2010. The ‘055 patent (along with the ‘241 patent – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled Kenall Manufacturing Company v. H.E. Williams, Inc. (N.D. Ill., Case No. 1:09-cv-01284, filed Feb. 27, 2009).
(13) 90/009,839 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,530,798 owned by Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd. and entitled BALL GRID ARRAY SOCKET CONNECTOR. Filed October 15, 2010.
(14) 90/009,840 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,114,148 owned by The General Hospital Corporation and entitled HIGH LEVEL EXPRESSION OF PROTEINS. Filed October 19, 2010.
