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Motorola Mobility Attacks Five Intellectual Ventures Patents, Among the Requests Week of March 10, 2014
| March 18, 2014
Intellectual Ventures has at least two infringement actions pending against Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility, one in Florida and one in Delaware. This past week Motorola struck back by requesting inter partes review of three of the IV patents-in-suit (see inter partes review Requests (3), (4) & (5)) and post-grant review of two other IV business method patents (see covered business method post-grant review Request Nos. (2) & (3)).
Intel continues to go after Zond, filing five inter partes review requests against a single Zond patent plasma generation patent (see inter partes review Request Nos. (2)).
The following inter partes review requests were filed:
1. IPR2014-00493 – U.S. Patent No. 7,899,167 entitled CENTRALIZED CALL PROCESSING, which is owned by T-Netix. Filed by Global Tel*Link on March 10, 2014. The ‘167 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Securus Technologies, Inc. v. Global Tel *Link Corporation, (Case No. 3:13-cv-03009 (N.D. Tex.)).
2. IPR2014-00494, 00495, 00496, 00497 & 00498 – U.S. Patent No. 6,853,142 entitled METHOD AND APARATUS FOR GENERATING HIGH-DENSITY PLASMA, which is owned by Zond. Filed by Intel on March 13, 2014. The ‘142 patent is asserted in a series of infringement actions against Intel, AMD, Hynix, Toshiba, Reneas, Fujitsu and Gillette.
3. IPR2014-00500 – U.S. Patent No. 5,790,793 entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CREATE, TRANSMIT, RECEIVE, AND PROCESS INFORMATION, INCLUDING AN ADDRESS TO FURTHER INFORMATION, which is owned by Intellectual Ventures. Filed by Motorola Mobility on March 10, 2014. The ‘793 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Motorola Mobility LLC, (Case No. 0:13-cv-61358-RSR (S.D. Fla.)).
4. IPR2014-00501 – U.S. Patent No. 7,136,392 entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORDERING DATA MESSAGES HAVING DIFFERING LEVELS OF PRIORITY FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A SHARED COMMUNICATION CHANNEL, which is owned by Intellectual Ventures. Filed by Motorola Mobility on March 10, 2014. The ‘392 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Motorola Mobility LLC, (Case No. 0:13-cv-61358-RSR (S.D. Fla.)).
5. IPR2014-00504 – U.S. Patent No. 7,382,771 entitled MOBILE WIRLESS HOTSPOT SYSTEM, which is owned by Intellectual Ventures. Filed by Motorola Mobility on March 10, 2014. The ‘771patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Motorola Mobility LLC, (Case No. 0:13-cv-61358-RSR (S.D. Fla.)).
6. IPR2014-00505 – U.S. Patent No. 6,775,356 entitled REAL-TIME INCIDENT AND RESPONSE INFORMATION MESSAGING IN A SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATION THAT AN EMERGENCY CALL HAS OCCURRED FROM A TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE, which is owned by 911 Notify. Filed by Intrado on March 11, 2014. The ‘356 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled 911 Notify v. Intrado (Case No. 1:13-cv-276 (D. Del.)).
7. IPR2014-00506 – U.S. Patent No. 6,974,569 entitled SHAMPOOS PROVIDING A SUPERIOR COMBINATION ANTI-DANDRUFF EFFICACY AND CONDITION, which is owned by Procter & Gamble. Filed by Conopco dba Unilever on March 12, 2014. The ‘569 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Procter & Gamble Co. v. Conopco Inc., (Case No. 13-cv-00732, (S.D. Ohio)).
8. IPR2014-00507 – U.S. Patent No. 6,451,300 entitled ANTI-DANDRUFF AND CONDITIONING SHAMPOOS, which is owned by Procter & Gamble. Filed by Conopco dba Unilever on March 12, 2014. The ‘300 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Procter & Gamble Co. v. Conopco Inc., (Case No. 13-cv-00732, (S.D. Ohio)).
9. IPR2014-00508 – U.S. Patent No. RE43,563 entitled BELLY COVERING GARMENT, which is owned by Destination Maternity Corp. Filed by Target on March 14, 2014. The ‘563 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Destination Maternity v. Target (Case No. 2:12-cv-5680 (E.D. Pa.)).
10. IPR2014-00509 – U.S. Patent No. RE43,531 entitled BELLY COVERING GARMENT, which is owned by Destination Maternity Corp. Filed by Target on March 14, 2014. The ‘531 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Destination Maternity v. Target (Case No. 2:12-cv-5680 (E.D. Pa.)).
The following requests for covered business method post-grant review were filed:
1. CBM2014-00082 – U.S. Patent No. 5,664,110 entitled REMOTE ORDERING SYSTEM, which is owned by Cronos Technology. Filed by Travelocity on March 6, 2014.
2. CBM2014-00083 – U.S. Patent No. 6,557,054 entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING UPDATES BY PRESENTING DIRECTORY OF SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FOR USER INSTALLATION THAT IS NOT ALREADY INSTALLED ON USER STATION, which is owned by Intellectual Ventures. Filed by Motorola Mobility on March 10, 2014. The ‘054 patent is the subject of a patent infringement action styled Intellectual Ventures I et al. v. Motorola Mobility, Inc., (Case No. 11-908 (SLR) (D. Del.)).
3. CBM2014-00084 – U.S. Patent No. 6,658,464 entitled USER STATION SOFTWARE THAT CONTROLS TRANSPORT, STORAGE, AND PRESENTATION OF CONTENT FROM A REMOTE SOURCE, which is owned by Intellectual Ventures. Filed by Motorola Mobility on March 10, 2014. The ‘464 patent is the subject of a patent infringement action styled Intellectual Ventures I et al. v. Motorola Mobility, Inc., (Case No. 11-908 (SLR) (D. Del.)).
4. CBM2014-00087 & 00088 – U.S. Patent No. 6,658,464 entitled USER STATION SOFTWARE THAT CONTROLS TRANSPORT, STORAGE, AND PRESENTATION OF CONTENT FROM A REMOTE SOURCE, which is owned by DataTreasury. Filed by Fiserv on March 12, 2014. The ‘464 patent is the subject of a patent infringement action styled DataTreasury Corp. v. Fiserv, Inc. et al., (Case No. 2:13-cv-00431 (E.D.Tex.)).
5. CBM2014-00089 – U.S. Patent No. 8,346,894 entitled REAL-TIME WEB TRANSACTIONS FROM WEB APPLICATIONS which is owned by Pi-Net International. Filed by BestBuy.com on March 13, 2014.
6. CBM2014-00090 – U.S. Patent No. 5,805,702 entitled METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING UNITS OF VALUE which is owned by Maxim Integrated Prods. Filed by Groupon on March 14, 2014.
7. CBM2014-00091 – U.S. Patent No. 8,051,011 entitled ELECTRONIC CURRENCY, ELECTRONIC WALLET THEREFOR AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEMS EMPLOYING which is owned by Moneycat. Filed by eBay on March 14, 2014.
8. CBM2014-00092 – U.S. Patent No. 7,590,602 entitled ELECTRONIC CURRENCY, ELECTRONIC WALLET THEREFOR AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEMS EMPLOYING which is owned by Moneycat. Filed by eBay on March 14, 2014.
9. CBM2014-00093 – U.S. Patent No. 8,195,578 entitled ELECTRONIC CURRENCY, ELECTRONIC WALLET THEREFOR AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEMS EMPLOYING which is owned by Moneycat. Filed by eBay on March 14, 2014.
10. CBM2014-00094 – U.S. Patent No. 7,441,196 entitled APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANIPULATING A REGION ON A WIRELESS DEVICE SCREEN FOR VIEWING, ZOOMING AND SCROLLING INTERNET CONTENT which is owned by EMG Technology. Filed by Branch Banking and Trust on March 14, 2014.
The following ex parte reexamination requests were filed:
1. 90/013,176 – U.S. Patent No. 5,753,075 entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FEEDING COMMINUTED FIBROUS MATERIAL, which is owned by Andritz. Filed on March 10, 2014.
2. 90/013,177 – U.S. Patent No. 5,859,952 entitled HUMIDIFIER WITH UV ANTI-CONTAMINATION PROVISION, which is owned by Helen of Troy. Filed on March 11, 2014.
3. 90/013,178 – U.S. Patent No. 6,491,678 entitled FREEZER BAG, which is owned by New York Blood Center. Filed on March 11, 2014.
4. 90/013,179 – U.S. Patent No. 7,976,497 entitled MULTILAYERED FILM WELDED ARTICULATED BALLOON, which is owned by Polyzen. Filed on March 21, 2014, likely by Radiadyne. The ‘497 patent is asserted in a patent infringement action styled Polyzen v. Radiadyne (Case No. 5:11-v-00662 (W.D.N.C.)).
