Listed below are all new filings before PTAB of petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and covered business methods review (CBM).  Also listed are any newly-posted requests for ex partereexamination at the USPTO.  This listing is current as of 9:30 AM on Wednesday, January 10, 2018.

New IPR Petitions

Trial Number – IPR2018-00432
Trial Number – IPR2018-00433
Trial Number – IPR2018-00434
Filing Date – 1/9/2018
Patent # – 9,126,160
Title – SYSTEM FOR FORMING AN ARRAY OF EMULSIONS
Patent Owner –  BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC.
Petitioner – 10X GENOMICS, INC.
Tech Center – 1700

Trial Number – IPR2018-00439
Filing Date – 1/9/2018
Patent # – 9,413,711
Title – ELECTRONIC MESSAGE HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD BETWEEN SENDING AND RECIPIENT DEVICES WITH SEPARATION OF DISPLAY OF MEDIA COMPONENT AND HEADER INFORMATION
Patent Owner –  VAPORSTREAM INC.
Petitioner – SNAP INC.
Tech Center – 2400

New CBM Review Petitions

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

Newly-Posted Reexam Requests

Control # – 90/020,122
Date – 1/4/2018
Patent # – 8,156,468
Inventor –  PEGDEN, Claude Dennis
Assignee –  SIMIO LLC
Title – SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING INTELLIGENT SIMULATION OBJECTS USING GRAPHICAL PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS
Co-pending Litigation – Flexsim Software Products, Inc. v. Simio, LLC, UTD-2-16-cv-00820