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Lodsys - Reexamination - Non-Final Office Action Rejects 24 Claims of '565 Patent |
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Monday, October 17 2011 @ 08:00 AM EDT
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the reexamination of the second of the two Lodsys patents challenged by Google and has issued a first office action. Of the four independent and 24 dependent claims challenged by Google, the USPTO has rejected all four independent claims and 20 of the 24 dependent claims. This is an inter partes reexamination.
The USPTO had previously rejected 28 of the claims of Lodsys's '078 patent. (See Lodsys - Reexamination - Non-Final Office Action Rejects 28 Claims of '078 Patent) This brings to a total of six independent claims and 46 dependent claims that the USPTO has now rejected upon reexamination between the two Lodsys patents. The next step with respect to each of the office actions will be for Lodsys to respond. The response on the '078 patent will be due no later than November 28, 2011, and for the '565 no later than December 11, 2011.
Here is an updated table of the Lodsys reexaminations:
Lodsys Reexams (Google) |
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Patent No. |
Claims |
Claims Not Subject to Reexam |
Claims Subject to Reexam |
Claims Rejected |
Claims Confirmed |
Claims Surviving |
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Ind |
Dep |
Ind |
Dep |
Ind |
Dep |
Ind |
Dep |
Ind |
Dep |
Ind |
Dep |
7222078 |
4 |
70 |
2 |
37 |
2 |
33 |
2 |
26 |
0 |
7 |
2 |
44 |
7620565 |
4 |
28 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
24 |
4 |
20 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
8 |
Totals |
8 |
98 |
2 |
41 |
6 |
57 |
6 |
46 |
0 |
11 |
2 |
52 |
Percent of All Claims |
100.00% |
100.00% |
25.00% |
41.84% |
75.00% |
58.16% |
75.00% |
46.94% |
0.00% |
11.22% |
25.00% |
53.06% |
Percent of Claims Reexamined |
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100.00% |
80.70% |
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The '565 office action is not terribly enlightening beyond the original request for reexamination filed by Google (See Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys) primarily because the office action is focused on the limits it places on the Google arguments. In other words, the USPTO adopted Google's invalidity assertions as stated in the reexamination request subject to the limitations stated in the first office action.
The four independent claims of the '565 patent that have now been rejected are:
1. A unit, comprising: a memory; a transmitter; and a processor, coupled to the memory and to the transmitter, configured to: monitor a product for an occurrence in the product of a trigger event of a predefined plurality of trigger events, increment a counter corresponding to the trigger event upon detection of the occurrence of the trigger event, cause the display of a user interface, configured to probe for information regarding a use of the product, if the counter exceeds a threshold, cause the memory to store an input received from the user interface, and cause the transmitter to transmit the input to a server.
15. A method, comprising: monitoring a product for an occurrence in the product of a trigger event of a predefined plurality of trigger events; incrementing a counter corresponding to the trigger event upon detection of the occurrence of the trigger event in the product; displaying a user interface, configured to probe for information regarding a use of the product, if the counter exceeds a threshold; storing an input received from the user interface on a device; and transmitting the input to a server.
27. A tangible computer readable medium having stored thereon, computer executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising: monitoring a product for an occurrence in the product of a trigger event of a predefined plurality of trigger events, incrementing a counter corresponding to the trigger event upon detection of the occurrence of the trigger event in the product; displaying a user interface, configured to probe for information regarding a use of the product, if the counter exceeds a threshold; storing an input received from the user interface on a device; and transmitting the input to a server.
30. A physical unit, comprising: means for monitoring a product for an occurrence in the product of a trigger event of a predefined plurality of trigger events; means for incrementing a counter corresponding to the trigger event upon detection of the occurrence of the trigger event; means for probing for information regarding a use of the product if the counter exceeds a threshold; means for storing an input received from the means for probing; and means for transmitting the input to a server.
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Reexamination Docket
Patent No. 7,620,565
'565 - Grant of Reexamination
'565 - First Office Action
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Authored by: entre on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
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- Corrections here. - Authored by: entre on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 08:08 AM EDT
- s/46/44/ - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 10:27 AM EDT
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Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 08:25 AM EDT |
Have I got the way Patents work correct.
If these had not been rejected, could I have worked around them by decrementing
a counter corresponding to the trigger event?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 08:39 AM EDT |
The patent office has issued thousands, or more patents that
never should have been issued in the first place.
Doing that, has cost the US business and individuals a lot
of money in legal costs OR SETTLEMENT FEES (paying off
trolls instead of going to court).... all adding up to
higher priced products, etc.
So, US patent office mistakes (showing how they are not
responsible when it comes to their jobs in the first place)
results in patents, and a patent system, that pays for the
lawyers (lawyers are making a lot of money in the
confusion), and the citizen foots the bill in product prices
(as corporations just up the price of products for these
bogus patents that the company has to pay for when lawyers
make mistakes. Citizens are not being protected by
government.
Idea: If patent office employees had to pay for the cost of
their mistakes, then they might not make them in the first
place.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 10:14 AM EDT |
The fact that any claims left are valid is still a big issue. Each claim is in
fact something that can be infringed and google, etc. need to possibly defend
and can be worth buhzillions of dollars. Nope nothing wrong at all with the
patent system. Nor the fact that the actual inventors of such ideas (whether
they add value to society or not) only get paid on average $1000 per whole
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Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 11:42 AM EDT |
I thought that a patent has independent claims which stand alone and dependent
claims that depend on the independent claims.
If the independent claims are all invalidated, what do the surviving dependent
claims depend on?
Perhaps the write-up offers ways of getting the invalidated independent and
dependent claims up to standard which would then give meaning to the surviving
claims.
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Ian Al
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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 02:05 PM EDT |
Because I could find the topic.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
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Authored by: Kilz on Monday, October 17 2011 @ 03:32 PM EDT |
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