Listed below are all new filings before the PTAB of petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and covered business methods review (CBM).  Also listed are any newly-posted requests for ex parte reexamination at the USPTO.  This listing is current as of 10 AM on Tuesday, October 4, 2016.

New IPR Petitions

Trial Number – IPR2017-00001

Filing Date – 10/1/2016

Patent # – 7,468,661

Title – SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING REMOTE DEVICES

Patent Owner –  SIPCO, LLC

Petitioner – EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.

Tech Center – 2600

Trial Number – IPR2017-00002

Filing Date – 10/1/2016

Patent # – 9,141,720

Title – SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT ON A NETWORK INTERFACE

Patent Owner –  BRUCE ZAK

Petitioner – Facebook, Inc.

Tech Center – 2100

Trial Number – IPR2017-00003

Filing Date – 10/1/2016

Patent # – 9,141,720

Title – SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT ON A NETWORK INTERFACE

Patent Owner –  BRUCE ZAK

Petitioner – Facebook, Inc.

Tech Center – 2100

Trial Number – IPR2017-00004

Filing Date – 10/1/2016

Patent # – 9,141,720

Title – SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT ON A NETWORK INTERFACE

Patent Owner –  BRUCE ZAK

Petitioner – Facebook, Inc.

Tech Center – 2100

Trial Number – IPR2017-00005

Filing Date – 10/1/2016

Patent # – 9,141,720

Title – SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT ON A NETWORK INTERFACE

Patent Owner –  BRUCE ZAK

Petitioner – Facebook, Inc.

Tech Center – 2100

New CBM Review Petitions

There have been no new petitions for CBM review since the last report.

Newly-Posted Reexam Requests

Control # – 90/013,826

Date – 10/3/2016

Patent # – 8,416,651

Inventor –  KADLEC, Ron J.

Assignee –  OPTICAL DEVICES, LLC

Title – SERVO CONTROL USING DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR OPTICAL DISK DRIVE

Co-pending Litigation – Optical Devices LLC v Lenovo Group Ltd et al., DED-1-13-cv-01526; Optical Devices LLC v Mediatek Inc. et al., DED-1-13-cv-01527; Optical Devices LLC v. Toshiba Corporation et al., DED-1-13-cv-01530