PTO Litigation Report – May 23, 2017
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

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

 

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