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Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of May 31st
| June 9, 2010
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for requests that involve copending District Court litigation, is too long. We therefore report new ex parte and inter partes reexamination requests filed electronically the previous week as they appear on the Patent Office PAIR system.
Some reexamination requests are still filed by paper. Because of the time required for the Patent Office to review such paper requests before posting on PAIR, our report may come three weeks after filing. The information available from the Patent Office may be incomplete in a few cases because not all the reexamination request papers have yet been posted on PAIR. There may also be gaps in the Patent Office docket numbers listed because, for any of various reasons, a reexamination request has been assigned a docket number but is not ready for posting.
The following inter partes requests were made:
(1) 95/001,358 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(2) 95/001,364 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(3) 95/001,369 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,395,090 owned by Skullcandy, Inc. and entitled PERSONAL PORTABLE INTEGRATOR FOR MUSIC PLAYER AND MOBILE PHONE. Filed June 3, 2010 by CSR plc.
(4) 95/001,370 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,481,356 owned by PTM Packaging Tools Machinery PTE Ltd. and entitled DOUBLE-WALLED PAPERBOARD CUP. Filed June 4, 2010 by Seda S.P.A.
(5) 95/000,544 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(6) 95/000,547 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,681,587 owned by Protective Industries, LLC and entitled GAS BOTTLE VALVE STEM PROTECTIVE SLEEVE. Filed May 28, 2010.
And the following ex parte requests were made:
(1) 90/010,995 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(2) 90/010,999 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(3) 90/011,000 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(4) 90/011,017 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(5) 90/011,019 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,335,269 owned by Aoki Laboratories Ltd. and entitled PB-FREE SOLDER ALLOY COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ESSENTIALLY TIN(SN), SILVER(AG), COPPER(CU), AND PHOSPHORUS(P). Filed June 1, 2010.
(6) 90/011,020 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,865,841 owned by DJO, LLC and entitled COLD THERAPY APPARATUS. Filed June 1, 2010 by Vitalwear, Inc. The ‘841 patent (along with the ‘561 patent – see below) is currently the subject of a litigation styled DJO, LLC v. Vitalwear, Inc. (S.D. Cal., Case No. 3:09-cv-02872-W-NLS, filed Dec. 22, 2009).
(7) 90/011,021 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,980,561 owned by DJO, LLC and entitled APPLYING THERMAL THERAPY TO LIVING TISSUE. Filed June 1, 2010 by Vitalwear, Inc. The ‘561 patent (along with the ‘841 patent – see above) is currently the subject of a litigation styled DJO, LLC v. Vitalwear, Inc. (S.D. Cal., Case No. 3:09-cv-02872-W-NLS, filed Dec. 22, 2009).
(8) 90/011,022 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 5,623,600 owned by Trend Micro, Incorporated and entitled VIRUS DETECTION AND REMOVAL FOR COMPUTER NETWORKS. Filed June 1, 2010 by Fortinet, Inc. The ‘600 patent is currently the subject of two litigations, styled: Fortinet, Inc. v. Trend Micro Incorporated (N.D. Cal., Case No. 3:10-cv-00048-MMC, filed Jan. 6, 2010) and Trend Micro Incorporated v. Fortinet, Inc. (Cal. Super., Santa Clara, Case No. 1:09-CV-149262, filed Aug. 6, 2009).
(9) 90/011,023 (electronically filed) – Information not currently available.
(10) 90/011,024 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,225,869 owned by Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. and entitled METHODS OF ISOLATING HYDRAJET STIMULATED ZONES. Filed June 3, 2010.
(11) 90/011,025 (electronically filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,258,998 owned by Lonza Biologics PLC and entitled CELL CULTURE MEDIUM. Filed June 3, 2010.
(12) 90/009,748 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 6,831,661 owned by Seiko Epson Corporation and entitled PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD FOR SAME AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS. Filed May 21, 2010.
(13) 90/009,749 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(14) 90/009,750 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(15) 90/009,754 (paper filed) – Information not currently available.
(16) 90/009,755 (paper filed) – U.S. Patent No. 7,726,480 owned by Winterborne, Inc. and entitled DISPLAY PACK AND PACKAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS. Filed June 1, 2010.
