Three Updates from Reexamination Alert

The following is excerpted from the March 10, 2011 post by Scott Daniels at Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian, LLP's Reexamination^TM Alert blog:

Callaway v. Acushnet

Last May we reported the possibility of a conflict between the PTO and the District Court in the golf ball patent dispute, Callaway v. Acushnet, 1:06-cv-0091-SLR (D. Del)...Yesterday, however, the PTO Board reached the same conclusion as the Delaware jury when it affirmed the prior art rejection of the claims of the ‘293, ‘156 and ‘873 patents. 

Intellectual Ventures v. Xilinx

Each week seems to bring a new request by Xilinx for reexamination of one of the Intellectual Ventures patents from its case against Xilinx and several other companies. Intellectual Ventures v. Altera et al.  (Case No.  10–cv-1065-LPS (D. Del.)).  Yesterday Xilinx requested reexamination of IV’s U.S. Patent No. 6,993,669.

Zimmer Spine v. NuVasive

We have previously mentioned that the examiner had withdrawn his rejection of the Zimmer Spine patent claims, in U.S. Patent No. 6,936,501, in the inter partes reexamination requested by rival NuVasive.  NuVasive made a comeback yesterday, however, when the Board reversed the examiner.

Read the full post here.

Comments

[Rohit]

That was very informative and well written. I look forward for further posts from you. Recently I happened to read an article on Patent searching in India using IPAIRS system, which I felt quite interesting and informative. I would like to bring your kind attention to that post. Below mentioned is an excerpt of the mentioned article.

Performing a search on IPAIRS using keywords is an important step in performing exhaustive patent searches in India. However, the extent of search which can be done by using keywords is limited to title and abstract fields only. One style of performing keyword searches includes the identification of keywords and arranging them in a hierarchy (moving from specific aspects to broader aspects) which is based on the technology that is being searched. e.g. if one is performing a search for a skin care composition which involves a skin lightening agent (niacinamide), then the keywords could be identified in the following hierarchical fashion.
identify all the different keywords for niacinamide… To read more go this way http://www.sinapseblog.com/2011/03/performing-patent-searches-in-india.html