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Inter Partes Requests Filed the Week of January 11th
| January 21, 2010
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for inter partes requests, often involving copending District Court litigation, is unfair. We will therefore review the Patent Office files each week to identify inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week. In some cases, the information available is incomplete.
This past week, the following requests were made:
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Inter Partes Requests Filed the Week of January 4th
| January 14, 2010
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for inter partes requests, often involving copending District Court litigation, is unfair. We will therefore review the Patent Office files each week to identify inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week. In some cases, the information available is incomplete.
This past week, the following requests were made:
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Apotex Seeks Stay of Sanofi-Aventis Case
| January 14, 2010
The possibility of an accused infringer attacking the validity of a patent through reexamination, even after an adverse decision from the CAFC, was demonstrated anew last week.
On August 17, 2009, we reported that the PTO had granted Apotex’s request for ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 4,847,265 owned by Sanofi-Aventis and covering its anti-blood clot drug PLAVIX®. Since then, the PTO has issued a non-final rejection of most of the ‘265 claims as being obvious over each of several prior art references “in view of the state of the art,” as well as being unpatentable for obviousness-type double patenting in view of Sanofi-Aventis’ own U.S. Patent No. 4,529,596.1
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Inter Partes Requests Filed the Week of December 28th
| January 7, 2010
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for inter partes requests, often involving copending District Court litigation, is unfair. We will therefore review the Patent Office files each week to identify inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week. In some cases, the information available is incomplete.
This past week, the following requests were made:
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Nucleic Acid Case Becomes More Complicated
| January 4, 2010
This past September, Life Technologies Corporation and Applied Biosystems sued Illumina and Solexa in Delaware for infringing three U.S. patents by the sale of nucleic acid sequencing equipment called “Genome Analyzer” and “Genome Analyzer II.” Three weeks later Illumina and Solexa counter-claimed, alleging that Life Technologies and Applied Biosystems market “SOLiD” sequencing systems that infringe four patents belonging to Illumina and Solexa.
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Inter Partes Requests Filed the Week of December 23rd
| December 30, 2009
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for inter partes requests that often involve significant copending District Court litigation, is unfair. We will therefore review the Patent Office files each week to identify inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week. In some cases, the information available is incomplete.
This past week, the following requests were made:
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Inter Partes Requests Filed the Week of December 14th
| December 24, 2009
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for inter partes requests that often involve significant copending District Court litigation, is unfair. We will therefore review the Patent Office files each week to identify inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week. In some cases, the information available is incomplete.
This past week, the following requests were made:
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Inter Partes Requests Filed the Week of December 7th
| December 17, 2009
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly for inter partes requests that often involve significant copending District Court litigation, is unfair. We will therefore review the Patent Office files each week to identify inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week.
This past week, the following requests were made:
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Textron Patent Challenged
| December 14, 2009
Earlier this fall, E-Z-GO (a division of Textron) sued Club Car in Georgia, alleging infringement of its U.S. Patent No. 7,332,881 entitled “AC Drive System for Electrically Operated Vehicle.” The drive systems are used in Club Car’s Carryall 2 LSV and Carryall 6 LSV which resemble golf carts.
This past week, on December 7, Club Car struck back at E-Z-GO by filing a request for inter partes reexamination of the ‘881 patent. Club Car’s request cites eight prior art references, though it is unclear how many of those references were considered during the original ‘881 prosecution.
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Inter Partes Requests Filed the Week of November 30th
| December 10, 2009
The following inter partes requests were filed this past week:
(1) 95/001,272 – U.S. Patent No. 7,605,487 owned by General Electric and entitled Method for Operating a Wind Power Plant. December 1.
(2) 95/001,273 – U.S. Patent No. 6,640,086 owned by Wall Wireless and entitled Method and Apparatus for Creating and Distributing Real-Time Interactive Media Content through Wireless Communication Networks and the Internet. Filed by Nintendo on December 1.
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