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 11 AM on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.
New IPR Petitions
Trial Number – IPR2017-01457
Filing Date – 5/22/2017
Patent # – 9,202,720
Title – METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLASMA DICING A SEMI-CONDUCTOR WAFER
Patent Owner – PLASMA-THERM, LLC
Petitioner – SPTS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Tech Center – 2800
New CBM Review Petitions
There have been no new petitions for CBM review since the last report.
Newly-Posted Reexam Requests
Control # – 90/013,959
Date – 5/22/2017
Patent # – 9,213,357
Inventor – MILLINGTON, Nicholas
Assignee – SONOS, INC.
Title – OBTAINING CONTENT FROM REMOTE SOURCE FOR PLAYBACK
Co-pending Litigation – Sonos, Inc. v. D&M Holdings Inc. d/b/a The D+M Group et al., DED-1-14-cv-01330
Control # – 90/013,960
Date – 5/22/2017
Patent # – 6,947,882
Inventor – REBLEWSKI, Frederic et al.
Assignee – MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION
Title – REGIONALLY TIME MULTIPLEXED EMULATION SYSTEM
Co-pending Litigation – Mentor Graphics Corporation v. EVE-USA, Inc. et al., ORD-3-12-cv-01500