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PTO Statistics
Requests Filed the Week of February 8th
| February 16, 2010
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly requests that involve copending District Court litigation, is too long. We will therefore report new ex parte and inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week as they appear on the Patent Office EFS. In some cases, the information available from the Patent Office is still incomplete.
Notable among the filings were two ex parte requests, one filed by Samsung against a Murata patent, and one filed by Sony against a Trans Video patent.
This past week, the following inter partes requests were made:
(1) 95/001,310 – U.S. Patent No. 7,099,981 owned by ACQIS Technology and entitled MULTIPLE MODULE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD. Filed February 9, 2010, by Hewlett-Packard.
(2) 95/001,311 – U.S. Patent No. 6,936,018 owned by Heatmax and entitled REUSABLE/DISPOSABLE THERMAL APPLICATION AND HOLDER DEVICE. Filed February 9, 2010.
And the following ex parte requests were made:
(1) 90/010,854 – U.S. Patent No. 6,060,818 owned by Hewlett-Packard and entitled SBAR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FABRICATION OF SBAR.FBAR FILM PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF SBAR/BAR FILTERS. Filed February 9, 2010.
(2) 90/010,855 – U.S. Patent No. 6,793,608 owned by Mad Dogg Athletics and entitled STATIONARY BICYCLE. Filed February 9, 2010.
(3) 90/010,856 – U.S. Patent No. 5,893,120 owned by Bedrock Computer and entitled METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL USING A HASHING TECHNIQUE WITH EXTERNAL CHAINING AND ON-THE-FLY REMOVAL OF EXPIRED DATA. Filed February 9, 2010.
(4) 90/010,857 – U.S. Patent No. 6,904,370 owned by Compliance Software Solutions and entitled SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR COLLECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA AND GENERATION OF USER REPORT FOR COMPLIANCE WITH FDA REQUIREMENTS. Filed February 11, 2010.
(5) 90/010,858 – U.S. Patent No. D 462,932 owned by Correct Craft and entitled WATER SPORTS TOWING DEVICE. Filed February 11, 2010.
(6) 90/010,859 – U.S. Patent No. owned by Hon Hai Precision Indus. and entitled HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE AND HEAT PIPE. Filed February 11, 2010.
(7) 90/010,860 – U.S. Patent No. owned by Cargill and entitled ANTIMICROBIAL WATER SOFTENER SALT AND SOLUTIONS. Filed February 12, 2010.
(8) 90/010,861 – U.S. Patent No. 6,377,439 owned by Murata and entitled ELECTRONIC MULTILAYER CERAMIC COMPONENT. Filed February 12, 2010, by Samsung.
(9) 90/010,862 – U.S. Patent No. 5,991,801 owned by Trans Video and entitled GLOBAL DIGITAL VIDEO NEWS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. Filed February 12, 2010, by Sony.
90/010,863 – U.S. Patent No. 7,448,085 owned by Trend Micro and entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MALICIOUS CONTENT IN PROTECTED ARCHIVES. Filed February 13, 2010.
