Intellectual Ventures files four of the first IPR petitions
18 September 2012
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Eileen McDermott, New York
The USPTO’s Patent Review Processing System went live at 12:01 am on September 16, and already 13 petitions for post-issuance proceedings under the America Invents Act have been filed
There are 10 inter partes review (IPR) petitions and three requests for review of patents under the covered business methods programme (CBM).
Intellectual Ventures filed four of the IPR petitions. All of them relate to patents owned by Silicon Valley company Xilinix, which supplies programmable logic devices used to build digital circuits.
Illumina, a company that develops technologies for studying genetic variation and function, has requested IPRs for two patents assigned to Columbia University covering methods for decoding DNA...
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