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Challenges to Two MobileMedia Ideas Patents, among the Reexamination Requests Filed Week of April 11, 2011
| April 18, 2011
Reexamination was requested for two MobileMedia Ideas patents. PTO dockets show that RIM filed one of the requests, but are unclear about who filed the second, though that request was quite likely filed by RIM as well (see ex parte Request Nos. (3) & (13)). MobileMedia has sued RIM for infringement of these patents in the Eastern District of Texas.
A very important request, reported in a parallel post today, is Google’s second request for reexamination of an Oracle patent (see ex parte Request No. (20)).
Abbott Diabetes Care has requested reexamination of two DexCom analyte sensor patents (see ex parte Request Nos. (8) & (18)).
The following inter partes requests were filed:
(1) 95/001,600 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,032,508 entitled PRINTING PRESS and owned by Quad Graphics. Filed April 14, 2011, by Q.I. Press Controls. The ‘508 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Quad/Tech Inc. v. Q.I. Press Controls B.V. of the Netherlands, et al. (Case No. 10-cv-7248 (E.D. Pa.)).
(2) 95/001,601 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,653,572 entitled METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A REBATE PROGRAM and owned by TuitionFund. Filed April 15, 2011. The ‘572 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled TuitionFund v. SunTrust Banks et al. (Case No. 3:11-cv-0069 (M.D. Tenn.)).
(3) 95/000,624 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,947,456 entitled OPEN-LOOP LASER DRIVER HAVING AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL CONTROLLER and owned by Avago Technologies Fiber. Filed April 6, 2011, likely filed by IPtronics. The ‘456 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Avago v. IPtronics et al. (Case No. 3:10-cv-2863 (N.D. Cal.)).
(4) 95/000,625 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,738,770 entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING AND SORTING DATA and owned by Deep Sky Software. Filed April 8, 2011, likely by Southwest Airlines. The ‘770 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Deep Sky Software v. Southwest Airlines (Case No. 3:10-cv-01234-W-CAB (S.D. Cal.)).
The following ex parte requests were filed:
(1) 90/011,628 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,672,279 entitled METHOD FOR USING UREA HYDROCHLORIDE and owned by Peach State Labs. Filed April 6, 2011, by Environmental Manufacturing Solutions. The ‘279 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Environmental Manufacturing Solutions v. Peach State Labs (Case No. 6:09-cv-395-ORL-28-DAB (M.D. Fla.)).
(2) 90/011,629 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,416,706 entitled APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING CONTAINERS FROM WHICH REFUSE IS COLLECTED AND COMPILING A HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE CONTAINERS and owned by LeRoy Hagenbuch. Filed April 6, 2011.
(3) 90/011,630 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,389,301 entitled PORTABLE RADIO INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, DISPLAY SCREEN OPERATING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MICROCOMPUTER APPARATUS and owned by MobileMedia Ideas. Filed April 6, 2011, by RIM. The ‘301 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled MobileMedia Ideas v. RIM (Case No. 2:10-cv-113-TJW (E.D. Tex.)).
(4) 90/011,631 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,405,704 entitled INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH LIMITED TEMPERATURE CYCLE and owned by Kruse Technology Partnership. Filed April 7, 2011.
(5) 90/011,632 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,058,904 entitled INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH LIMITED TEMPERATURE CYCLE and owned by Kruse Technology Partnership. Filed April 7, 2011.
(6) 90/011,633 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,265,562 entitled INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH LIMITED TEMPERATURE CYCLE and owned by Kruse Technology Partnership. Filed April 7, 2011.
(7) 90/011,634 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,638,173 entitled PUTTING IMPROVEMENT DEVICES AND METHODS and owned by The Stracka Design Company. Filed April 8, 2011.
(8) 90/011,635 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,599,726 entitled SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ANALYTE SENSOR DATA and owned by DexCom. Filed April 8, 2011, by Abbott Diabetes Care.
(9) 90/011,636 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,848,978 entitled ENHANCED TRANSACTION RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES and owned by Filed April 8, 2011, by Collections Marketing Center. The ‘978 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Collections Marketing Center & Bridgeforce v. Apollo Enterprise Solutions (Case No. 1:10-cv-1057-BMS (D. Del.)).
(10) 90/011,637 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,296,579 entitled PUTTING IMPROVEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD and owned by Lee Robinson. Filed April 8, 2011.
(11) 90/011,638 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,838,752 entitled SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE WITH RECESSED LEADFRAME AND A RECESSED LEADFRAME and owned by STMicroelectronics. Filed April 8, 2011. The ‘752 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled TriQuint Semiconductor v. Avago Tech. et al. (Case No. 2:09-cv-1531 (D. Ariz.)).
(12) 90/011,639 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,304,925 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A HOST COMPUTER AND AT LEAST TWO STORAGE DEVICES OVER THE INTERNET and owned by Filed April 11, 2011, by Toshiba America Information System & LG Electronics. The ‘925 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Synchrome Tech. v. LG Electronics U.S.A. et al. (Case No. 1:09-cv-1736-SCJ-CCH (N.D. Ga.)).
(13) 90/011,640 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,446,080 entitled METHOD FOR CREATING, MODIFYING, AND PLAYING A CUSTOM PLAYLIST, SAVED AS A VIRTUAL CD, TO BE PLAYED BY A DIGITAL AUDIO/VISUAL ACTUATOR DEVICE and owned by MobileMedia Ideas. Filed April 12, 2011, likely by RIM. The ‘080 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled MobileMedia Ideas v. RIM (Case No. 2:10-cv-113-TJW (E.D. Tex.)).
(14) 90/011,641 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,701,523 entitled V-CHIP PLUS + IN-GUIDE USER INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROGRAMMABLE BLOCKING OF TELEVISION AND OTHER VIEWABLE PROGRAMMING, SUCH AS FOR PARENTAL CONTROL OF A TELEVISION RECEIVER and owned by All Media Guide et al. Filed April 12, 2011.
(15) 90/011,642 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,305,016 entitled SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION WITH A PERCEIVED PARTIAL TRANSPARENCY OVER A TELEVISON PROGRAM and owned by All Media Guide et al. Filed April 13, 2011.
(16) 90/011,643 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,833,864 entitled METHOD FOR THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL OF THE RELEASE OF GAS AND ODORS FROM SEWAGE AND WASTE WATER and owned by Bank of America. Filed April 14, 2011.
(17) 90/011,644 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,842,289 entitled RECOMBINANT NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES, EXPRESSION CASSETTES, AND BACTERIA, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF and owned by Aduro Biotech. Filed April 14, 2011, by Advaxis.
(18) 90/011,645 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,081,195 entitled SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYTE SENSORS and owned by DexCom. Filed April 14, 2011, by Abbott Diabetes Care.
(19) 90/011,646 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,097,416 entitled ROTARY DISC PUMP and owned by Max Gurth. Filed April 15, 2011.
(20) 90/011,647 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,061,520 entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING STATIC INITIALIZATION and owned by Oracle. Filed, April 15, 2011 by Google. The ‘520 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Oracle v. Google (Case No. 3:10-cv-3561 (N.D. Cal.)).
(21) 90/009,899 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,729,928 entitled MULTIPLE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEM and owned by General Electric Capital Corporation. Filed April 6, 2011.
(22) 90/009,890 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,099,882 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROASTING AND SMOKING SKINNED FOOD PRODUCTS and owned by California Fire Roasted. Filed April 4, 2011.
(23) 90/009,891 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,780,076 entitled TALKING STICK HORSE and owned by Tek Nek Toys International. Filed April 8, 2011.
