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	<title>Reexamination Alert™</title>
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	<description>知的財産の創造 – Creating IP Value</description>
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		<title>Kyocera Challenge to ADC Personal Communicator Patent among the Reexamination Requests Filed Week of May 7, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/kyocera-challenge-to-adc-personal-communicator-patent-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-week-of-may-7-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/kyocera-challenge-to-adc-personal-communicator-patent-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-week-of-may-7-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recent Requests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday Kyocera requested reexamination of an ADC Technology patent – U.S. Patent No. 6,985,136 – for a “personal communicator,” i.e., a portable computer for wireless data transmission (see inter partes Request No. (4)).  ADC is currently pursuing an infringement action against Kyocera in Illinois.  The ‘136 patent survived an earlier reexamination attempt, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reexamination Stay Granted even though Parties are Direct Competitors</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/reexamination-stay-granted-even-though-parties-are-direct-competitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/reexamination-stay-granted-even-though-parties-are-direct-competitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stays/District Courts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A trial judge’s decision on whether to stay an infringement action pending completion of a parallel reexamination, is obviously critical, in some cases determines the outcome of the litigation.  In making this decision, trial judges tend to fall into one of two camps: those judges who are attracted to stays because of their potential to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack on Helferich Patent Licensing/Wireless Science Patent, among the Reexamination Requests Filed Week of May 7, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/attack-on-helferich-patent-licensingwireless-science-patent-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-week-of-may-7-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/attack-on-helferich-patent-licensingwireless-science-patent-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-week-of-may-7-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recent Requests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Helferich Patent Licensing has been extremely aggressive and extremely successful in asserting its portfolio of mobile wireless communications patents against the world’s media and retail giants.  According to the patent search outfit M-CAM, Helferich has sued licensed 42 companies, including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, NEC, Nissan, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba.  In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think IP Strategy Offers 2011 News Almanac</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/think-ip-strategy-offers-2011-news-almanac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/think-ip-strategy-offers-2011-news-almanac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think IP Strategy is likely the world leader in collecting information of interest to IP practitioners across the globe.  Each Friday it compiles in its “Global Week in Review” stories and comments on significant developments in patent, trademark and copyright law.  These weekly compilations from 2011 have now been collected in a new book, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Risks of Inconsistent Arguments in Parallel Proceedings</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/the-risks-of-inconsistent-arguments-in-parallel-proceedings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/05/the-risks-of-inconsistent-arguments-in-parallel-proceedings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Claim Construction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A patentee, who is simultaneously pursuing an infringement in District Court and defending its patent in a reexamination proceeding at the PTO, often faces the temptation to construe its claims broadly in court but narrowly at the PTO.  The risks of yielding to that temptation are illustrated in Judge Susan Illston’s claim construction decision Tuesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges on Intellectual Ventures Computer Circuit Patents among the Reexamination Requests Filed Week of April 23, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/challenges-on-intellectual-ventures-computer-circuit-patents-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-week-of-april-23-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/challenges-on-intellectual-ventures-computer-circuit-patents-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-week-of-april-23-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recent Requests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whda.com/blog/?p=3549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An undisclosed party requested reexamination of two computer circuits patents owned by Intellectual Ventures (see ex parte Request Nos. (13) &#38; (14)).  IV patents in this technology have come under attack by Xilinx in recent times, and it was quite possibly Xilinx that filed these requests.  Incidentally, one of the IV patents was originally owned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claims of Two Rambus Memory Device Patents Rejected by PTO Board of Appeals</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/claims-of-two-rambus-memory-device-patents-rejected-by-pto-board-of-appeals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/claims-of-two-rambus-memory-device-patents-rejected-by-pto-board-of-appeals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PTO Board]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Patent Office Board of Appeals dealt Rambus a major setback yesterday by affirming the anticipation rejection of the two independent claims in reexamination of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,266,285 and 6,314,051, two of the so-called “Farmwald Patents” that have been the subject of an ITC investigation and several District Court infringement actions. The Board also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycle Rental Station Patent, Subject of Reexamination Request Filed Week of April 16, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/bicycle-rental-station-patent-subject-of-reexamination-request-filed-week-of-april-16-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/bicycle-rental-station-patent-subject-of-reexamination-request-filed-week-of-april-16-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recent Requests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whda.com/blog/?p=3525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you live in Washington D.C. or in any of a number of other places, you have undoubtedly noticed the bicycle stations scattered across town: with a credit card you can rent a bicycle to ride around town and return it at your convenience to the same or another bicycle station.  Isabelle Bettez and Jean-Sebastien [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens after the Reexamination Stay is Lifted?</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/what-happens-after-the-reexamination-stay-is-lifted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/what-happens-after-the-reexamination-stay-is-lifted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stays/District Courts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whda.com/blog/?p=3520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ An extremely popular strategy for a defendant accused of patent infringement is (1) to request reexamination of the patent and then (2) to convince the trial judge that the reexamination will simplify the issues to be tried, so that he or she should stay the litigation pending completion of the suit.  But how does the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Attack on Computerized Menu Patent among the Reexamination Requests Filed the Week of April 9, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/google-attack-on-computerized-menu-patent-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-the-week-of-april-9-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.whda.com/blog/2012/04/google-attack-on-computerized-menu-patent-among-the-reexamination-requests-filed-the-week-of-april-9-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Daniels</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recent Requests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last September, DietGoal Innovations sued a who’s-who of fast food companies (such as McDonalds and Burger King), plus Google, for infringement of a computerized menu patent: U.S. Patent No. 6,585,516 (see inter partes Request No. (1)).  Last week, it was Google that requested reexamination of the ‘516 patent.  DietGoal’s patented menu comprises a user interface, [...]]]></description>
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