Anonymous Ex Parte Reexamination Sought against Carnegie Mellon Signal...
An undisclosed party requested ex parte reexamination of Carnegie Mellon’s U.S. Patent Nos. 6,438,180 and 6,201,839 last Tuesday (see ex parte reexamination Request Nos. (1) & (2)). The ‘180 and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Takes another Crack at VirnetX Patent, Among the Requests Week of...
In 2010 Microsoft paid VirnetX $200 million to settle a patent infringement action. In 2012 VirnetX won a $368 million jury verdict against Apple for infringement of the same set of patents. This...
View ArticleCrocs Attacks Patents for“Animal-Character” Shoes, Among the Requests Week of...
Last year Polliwalks, Inc. sued Crocs and Kohl’s for infringing two patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 8,371,043 & 8,371,044 – by selling “Crocs Crocskin Clogs.” Those patents claim shoes in which “the...
View ArticleIntel Files Five IPR Requests against Single Zond Patent, Among the Requests...
The 60-page limit for IPR petitions continues to plague filers. This difficulty is increased greatly by the rigorous detail with which the challenged patent claims must be applied to the asserted...
View ArticleApple Seeks Inter Partes Review of Two VirnetX Patents, Among the Requests...
The war between Apple and VirnetX expanded yet again with Apple requesting inter partes review of two VirnetX (see inter partes review Request Nos. (8) to (11)). We reported last week that Intel had...
View ArticleMotorola Mobility Attacks Five Intellectual Ventures Patents, Among the...
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...
View ArticleMitsubishi Plastics Seeks Inter Partes Review of Lithium Battery Separator...
In January Celgard – a subsidiary of Polypore International – sued LG for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,432,586. The ‘586 patent broadly claims a separator for lithium batteries, that includes “a...
View ArticleMore IPR Requests Filed against Intellectual Ventures’ Patents, Among the...
As Intellectual Ventures has begun to enforce its vast patent portfolio in court, more and more of IV’s targets are looking to the Patent Office for help. This past week, Canon filed three IPR...
View ArticleChallenge to Automobile Patents, Among the Requests Week of March 31, 2014
Automobile patents ranked highly in terms of the number of new IPR filings last week. Ford requested inter partes review of three hybrid vehicle patents owned by Paice and Abell (see inter partes...
View ArticleFive IPRs Filed against Single Auto Patent, Among the Requests Week of April...
Page limits, believe it or not, continue to be an important issue for validity challenges at the Patent Office – how does a petitioner, that has lots of prior art to assert, deal with the 60-page limit...
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