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Attacks on Two LSI Logic Video Decoder Patents, among Reexamination Requests filed Week of April 25, 2011
| May 2, 2011
LSI Logic is pursuing an infringement suit against Vizio in the Central District of California (see ex parte Request Nos. (4) & (5)). On Thursday, reexamination was requested for two of the patents in that suit, in all likelihood requested by Vizio.
Also, Micro-Probe requested reexamination of another FormFactor patent – as previously reported, the two companies are in litigation in the Northern District of California (see inter partes Request No (3)). And Funai requested reexamination of one of the Freescale computer patents in the case between the two companies in the Western District of Texas (see ex parte Request No (7)).
The following inter partes requests were filed:
(1) 95/001,611 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,693,608 entitled SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALARM FILTERING AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN A REAL-TIME DATA ACQUISITION AND MONITORING ENVIRONMENT and owned by DP Three. Filed April 26, 2011, by Operation Technology.
(2) 95/001,612 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,895,389 entitled INTERNET PROCUREMENT METHOD and owned by Consumers Interstate. Filed April 28, 2011, by Staples. The ‘389 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Consumers Interstate v. Staples et al. (Case No. 3:06-cv-173)).
(3) 95/000,629 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,671,614 entitled APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING AN ORIENTATION OF PROBES and owned by FormFactor. Filed April 13, 2011, by Micro-Probe. The ‘614 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled FormFactor v. Micro-Probe & David Browne (Case No. 10-cv-3095-VRW (N.D. Cal.)).
The following ex parte requests were filed:
(1) 90/011,658 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,425,268 entitled DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS FOR PURIFYING A LIQUID and owned by R.W. Distributing. Filed April 25, 2011.
(2) 90/011,659 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,670,370 entitled DATA PROTOCOL AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING MEMORY FOR A MUSIC CHIP and owned by AT&T Bell Labs. Filed April 26, 2011.
(3) 90/011,660 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,509,795 entitled SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLASMA PROPULSION and owned by Lockheed Martin. Filed April 26, 2011.
(4) 90/011,661 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,452,006 entitled TWO-PART SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEME FOR DIGITAL VIDEO DECODERS and owned by LSI Logic. Filed April 27, 2011, likely by Vizio. The ‘006 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled LSI Logic v. Vizio (Case No. 8:10-cv-1602-AG (C.D. Cal.)).
(5) 90/011,662 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,686,965 entitled TWO-PART SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEME FOR DIGITAL VIDEO DECODERS and owned by LSI Logic. Filed April 27, 2011, likely by Vizio. The ‘965 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled LSI Logic v. Vizio (Case No. 8:10-cv-1602-AG (C.D. Cal.)).
(6) 90/011,663 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,713,574 entitled TRANSCUTANEOUS ANALYTE SENSOR and owned by DexCom. Filed April 29, 2011, likely by Abbott Diabetes Care.
(7) 90/011,664 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,467,455 entitled DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DYNAMIC BUS TERMINATION and owned by Freescale Semiconductor. Filed April 29, 2011, likely by Funai. The ‘455 patent is currently the subject of a litigation styled Freescale Semiconductor v. Funai et al. (Case No. 1:10-cv-138-LY (W.D. Texas)).
(8) 90/011,665 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,897,372 entitled I-CREI MEGANUCLEASE VARIANTS WITH MODIFIED SPECIFICITY, METHOD OF PREPARATION AND USES THEREOF and owned by Cellectis S.A. Filed April 29, 2011, by Precision BioSciences. The ‘372 patent is currently the subject of two litigations styled Cellectis v. Precision BioSciences (Case No. 11-cv-173-SLR (D. Del.)) & Precision BioSciences v. Cellectis (Case No. 5:11-cv-91-H (E.D.N.C.)).
(9) 90/009,893 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,570,456 entitled SPINDLE MOTOR HAVING A FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING SYSTEM and owned by Mineba. Filed April 12, 2011.
(10) 90/009,897 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,033,344 entitled METHODS FOR REDUCING DISTAL EMBOLIZATION and owned by Medtronic. Filed April 18, 2011.
