$22,000 for III Holdings prior art — Unified Patents

On January 13, 2022, Unified added 11 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of the list below. The patents are owned by III Holdings, LLC. The contests will all end on April 15, 2022....

Sound View '860 patent successfully challenged — Unified Patents

On January 11, 2022, less than 10 months after Unified filed the request for ex parte reexamination, the USPTO issued a final office action rejecting claims 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 18 of U.S. Patent 8,135,860 , owned by Sound View Innovations,...

Peloton Faces Patent Challenges In The Race To Beat The Competition - Intellectual Property - UK

For a fitness-based business, Peloton seems to be quite active in the US patent courts right now. Success will always attract unwanted attention I guess.

$2,000 for HY LIT Radio Tech prior art — Unified Patents

On January 4, 2022, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,793,330 . The patent is owned by HY LIT Radio Technologies Inc., an NPE. The ‘330 patent generally...

Another MicroPairing patent challenged — Unified Patents

On January 4, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,178,049 , owned by MicroParing Technologies LLC, an NPE. The '049 patent is generally directed to managing applications in a multi-processor system...

CommWorks Solutions reexamination granted — Unified Patents

On December 23, 2021, about one month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination , the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,832,249 . The ‘249 patent is...

$2,000 for Xperi Holding prior art — Unified Patents

On January 4, 2022, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 11,012,720 . The patent is owned by Xperi Holding Corporation , an NPE. The '720 patent generally...

2021 Patent Dispute Report: Year in Review — Unified Patents

Overview The changing of the guard at the USPTO brings new changes in the patent dispute landscape. With the uncertainty of Fintiv , United States v. Arthrex, Inc., and pandemic recovery, operating companies have been less contentious than...

Nicox European Patent Seals ZERVIATE Major Market Coverage to 2030

Press ReleaseNicox European Patent Seals ZERVIATE Major Market Coverage to 2030 Patent coverage for ZERVIATE® (cetirizine ophthalmic solution), 0.24% in...

Court says Intel can contest parts of Qualcomm mobile patents

Intel Corp got a new chance to challenge two Qualcomm Inc smartphone patents on Tuesday, when a U.S. appeals court held that a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal had wrongly rejected Intel's arguments that parts of the patents were invalid.

Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC v. Hirshfeld (Fed. Cir. 2021)

By Donald Zuhn –- Earlier today, the Federal Circuit affirmed the final determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding claims 1, 2, and 4-14 of U.S. Patent No. 8,409,862 unpatentable as either...

Patent case: Biogen International GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA - Kluwer Patent Blog

A person of ordinary skill in the art could not determine the effective dose of the active ingredient in Tecfidera from the original patent specification. A West Virginia federal district court’s decision that certain claims of a Biogen patent...

EPO Cannot and Will Not Self-Regulate

The term financialisation helps describe some of the activities of the EPO in recent years; see Wikipedia on financialisation below

European Patent Office ruling on indoor farming patent published

The European Patent Office this week published its decision revoking a previously granted patent on indoor farming. PlantLab, which owned patent EP2348841, and Certhon together with partner…

$2,000 for RightQuestion prior art — Unified Patents

On December 27, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,824,696 . The patent is owned by RightQuestion, LLC, an NPE and entity of Bjorn Markus...