Latest Reexamination Stories

WILMINGTON, Del., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Butamax(TM) Advanced Biofuels, LLC, the leading biobutanol technology company, announced today that the United States District Court for Delaware has issued an order dismissing the action that Gevo asserted against Butamax in relation to United States Patent No. 8,101,808 (the '808 patent). Gevo has indicated that the '808 patent claims cover Gevo's GIFT technology for the removal of isobutanol, the technology used at Gevo's Luverne plant...

Reexamination Affirms Broadridge's Patent Rights Underlying Financial Services Industry's Leading Solutions for Compliance Communication LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Confirming its patent rights covering the financial services industry's leading solutions for investor disclosure of regulatory communications, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) announced today that following an ex parte reexamination initiated by a competitor, the U.S. Patent and...

WILMINGTON, Del., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Butamax(TM) Advanced Biofuels, LLC, the leading biobutanol technology company, announced new biobutanol patent and technology developments. On April 10, 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") issued an Action Closing Prosecution ("ACP"), rejecting all claims of Gevo Inc.'s U.S. Patent No. 8,101,808 ("'808 patent"), in the inter partes reexamination filed by Butamax on May 7, 2012. The '808 patent was...

HOERSHOLM, Denmark and SAN DIEGO, April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Santaris Pharma A/S, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of RNA-targeted therapies, today announced that the USPTO issued an Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate for U.S. Pat. No. 6,770,748 (the '748 patent) on April 1, 2013. The certificate, which follows a decision by the USPTO to dismiss an appeal that had been filed by Isis Pharmaceuticals during the proceeding,...

ZEPHYR COVE, Nev., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VirnetX® Holding Corporation (NYSE MKT: VHC), an Internet security software and technology company, today announced that, on February 27, 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") issued an Action Closing Prosecution ("ACP") for VirnetX's U.S. Patent No. 7,188,180 ("'180 patent"), in the inter-partes reexamination filed by Cisco Systems, Inc. on October 25, 2011, confirming all its claims as valid and patentable....

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C., an intellectual property law firm in Washington, DC, is pleased to announce the publication of Patent Office Litigation, a two-volume set focused on the new contested proceedings under the America Invents Act (AIA). The book - published by Thomson Reuters Westlaw - examines how the proceedings interact with other aspects of patent procurement and enforcement, while delivering practical analysis...

RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI) today reaffirmed its continued strong position and ongoing progress made in its defense of a process patent infringement lawsuit previously served against BDSI and its partners for ONSOLIS, by MonoSolRx, LLC (MonoSol). BDSI reaffirms that its products and technologies do not infringe on MonoSol's original patents, and BDSI believes that its position in this matter has only been...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO), announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company U.S. Patent No. 8,283,505, which protects Gevo's Integrated Fermentation Technology(®) (GIFT(®)). "This patented technology includes a proprietary separation unit that is designed to elegantly enable cost-efficient separation of isobutanol from other components of the fermentation broth," said Brett Lund,...

NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc. ("Network-1") (OTC BB: NSSI) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in response to a third party request, agreed to reexamine the Company's Remote Power Patent, U.S. Patent 6,218,930. This initial reexamination grant is no surprise as the majority of reexamination requests made to the United States Patent Office are granted. Requesting a reexamination is a...

DALLAS, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TransData Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced, solid-state power & energy metering products, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Patent Office) has issued reexamination certificates confirming the patentability of three TransData patents related to digital electric meters equipped with internal wireless communications. The recent certificates conclude four anonymous patent reexamination requests...