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Samsung Requests Inter Partes Review of Five Multimedia Display Patents, Week of September 2, 2013
| September 9, 2013
This past Thursday, Samsung requested inter partes review of five patents, owned by Virginia Innovation Sciences, that claim methods and computer readable media for converting video signals on a mobile terminal so that they may be reproduced on other display terminals (see inter partes review Request Nos. (8) through (12). Virginia Innovation has sued Samsung in the Eastern District of Virginia for infringement of the patents. Last month, Samsung filed a motion for summary judgment that the Virginia Innovation patents were invalid over the prior art (“VIS accused Samsung’s products of infringing the asserted claims based on their supposed use of well-known industry standard specification, notwithstanding that these same industry standard specifications were prior art”; emphasis in original). The District Court is likely to move more quickly than the Patent Office, in this race of filings.
Microsoft requested inter partes review of two information storage and retrieval patents (see inter partes review Request Nos. (4) & (5)). The owner of the patents, Enfish, has sued Microsoft in the Central District of California for infringement.
The ex parte reexamination request filed Tuesday by Brookwood against a silicone coated web patent owned Nextec Applications (see ex parte Request No. (2)) is interesting because there is parallel infringement action pending against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims. How might the Court consider a stay request?
The following inter partes review requests were filed:
(1) IPR2013-00554 & IPR2013-00555 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. RE38,745 entitled LAMINATE FILM-FOAM FLOORING COMPOSITION and owned by Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc. Filed September 3, 2013, by Sealed Air Corporation. The ‘745 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc. v. Sealed Air Corporation (Case No. 13-1084-LPS (D. Del.)).
(2) IPR2013-00556 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,607,803 entitled LAMINATE FILM-FOAM FLOORING COMPOSITION and owned by Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc. Filed September 3, 2013, by Sealed Air Corporation. The ‘803 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc. v. Sealed Air Corporation (Case No. 13-1084-LPS (D. Del.)).
(3) IPR2013-00557 & IPR2013-00558 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,047,705 entitled LAMINATE FILM-FOAM FLOORING COMPOSITION and owned by Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc. Filed September 3, 2013, by Sealed Air Corporation. The ‘705 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Pregis Innovative Packaging, Inc. v. Sealed Air Corporation (Case No. 13-1084-LPS (D. Del.)).
(4) IPR2013-00559, IPR2013-00560, IPR2013-00561 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,163,775 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS CONFIGURED ACCORDING TO A LOGICAL TABLE HAVING CELL AND ATTRIBUTES CONTAINING ADDRESS SEGMENTS and owned by Enfish, LLC. Filed September 3, 2013, by Microsoft. The ‘775 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. (Case No. CV12-7360-MRP (C.D. Cal.)).
(5) IPR2013-00562 & IPR2013-00563 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,151,604 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM and owned by Enfish, LLC. Filed September 3, 2013, by Microsoft. The ‘604 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. (Case No. CV12-7360-MRP (C.D. Cal.)).
(6) IPR2013-00566 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 8,464,767 entitled SHREDDER THICKNESS WITH ANTI-JITTER FEATURE and owned by Fellowes, Inc. Filed September 5, 2013, by ACCO Brands Corporation. The ‘767 patent is currently the subject matter of litigations styled Fellowes, Inc. v. ACCO Brands Corporation (Case No. 1:10-cv-07587 (N.D. Ill.)); Fellowes, Inc. v. ACCO Brands Corporation (Case No. 1:11-cv-08148 (N.D. Ill.)).
(7) IPR2013-00567 & IPR2013-00568 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 8,217,902 entitled CONDUCTOR PATTERN STRUCTURE OF CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL and owned by TPK Touch Solutions, Inc. Filed September 4, 2013, by Wintek Corporation. The ‘902 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled TPK Touch Solutions, Inc. v. Wintek Corporation (Case No. 3:13-cv-2218 (N.D. Cal.)).
(8) IPR2013-00569 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 8,145,268 entitled METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THE MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION FROM WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS and owned by Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. Filed September 5, 2013, by Samsung Electronics. The ‘268 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., et al. (Case No. 2:12-cv-00548-MSD-DEM (E.D. Va.)).
(9) IPR2013-00570 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 8,224,381 entitled METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THE MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION FROM WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS and owned by Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. Filed September 5, 2013, by Samsung Electronics. The ‘381 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., et al. (Case No. 2:12-cv-00548-MSD-DEM (E.D. Va.)).
(10) IPR2013-00571 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 8,135,398 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS WITH DIFFERENT USER TERMINALS and owned by Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. Filed September 5, 2013, by Samsung Electronics. The ‘398 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., et al. (Case No. 2:12-cv-00548-MSD-DEM (E.D. Va.)).
(11) IPR2013-00572 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,899,492 entitled METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THE MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION FROM WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS and owned by Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. Filed September 5, 2013, by Samsung Electronics. The ‘492 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., et al. (Case No. 2:12-cv-00548-MSD-DEM (E.D. Va.)).
(12) IPR2013-00573 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 8,050,711 entitled METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THE MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION FROM WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS and owned by Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. Filed September 5, 2013, by Samsung Electronics. The ‘711 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Virginia Innovation Sciences, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., et al. (Case No. 2:12-cv-00548-MSD-DEM (E.D. Va.)).
(13) IPR2013-00575 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,443,094 entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE UDDER OF A COW and owned by Daritech, Inc. Filed September 6, 2013, by DeLaval International AB. The ‘094 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Daritech, Inc. v. Green Source Automation, LLC (Case No. 1:11-cv-156 (C.D. Cal.)).
The following ex parte requests were filed:
(1) 90/012,967 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,905,442 entitled METHOD AND APAPRATUS FOR CONTROLLING AND DETERMINING THE STATUS OF ELECTRICAL DEVICES FROM REMOTE LOCATIONS and owned by Lutraon Electronics. Filed on September 3, 2013, by Creston Electronics, Inc. The ‘442 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. v. Crestron Electronics, Inc. (Case No. 2:09-CV-707 (D. Utah)).
(2) 90/012,968 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,004,643 entitled SILICONE POLYMER-INTERNALLY COATED WEBS and owned by Nextec Applications, Inc. Filed on September 3, 2013, by Brookwood Companies. The ‘643 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Nextec Applications, Inc. v. United States (Case No. 13-242 (Ct. Fed. Cl.)).
(3) 90/012,969 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 8,035,478 entitled EASY-TO-RETROFIT, ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED DOOR LOCK SYSTEM and owned by Irevo, Inc. Filed on September 4, 2013, by Irevo, Inc.
(4) 90/012,970 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,294,122 entitled ELECTRIC ACTUATOR FOR A METAL FLOW CONTROL PIN and owned by Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc. Filed on September 5, 2013.
(5) 90/012,971 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,612,179 entitled INTRON SEQUENCE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ADJACENT AND REMOTE LOCUS ALLELES AS HAPLOTYPES and owned by Genetic Technologies Limited. Filed on September 5, 2013. The ‘179 patent is currently the subject matter of a litigation styled Genetic Technologies Limited v. Merial LLC (Case No. 12-396-SLR (D. Del.)).
