This week the Official Gazette noticed seven ex parte reexamination requests. Varian Medical Systems filed an ex parte reexamination request against the University of Pittsburgh’s patent on an apparatus responsive to movement of a patient during treatment/diagnosis. Google filed a request against IP Innovations and Technology Licensing Corporation’s navigation patent on document information retrieval using global word co-occurrence patterns. Anonymous third parties filed requests against patents assigned to VaporGenie, DATCARD Systems, Precision Dynamics Corporation, Data Match Enterprises of Texas and Traffic Information.

Requests for reexamination were noticed in the USPTO Official Gazette, captioned below. Notice of Filing of Request for Reexamination means that a request for reexamination has been filed, accorded a filing date, and published in the Official Gazette (MPEP 2215).

Control Number: 90/009,529

Patent Number: 7,434,584
Technology Area: Tobacco
Patent Owner: VaporGenie, LLC., Blacksburg, VA
Firm Requesting: Tope-McKay & Associates, Malibu, CA
Date Requested: 8/26/2009
Invention Title: VAPORIZATION PIPE WITH FLAME FILTER

Control Number: 90/009,534

Patent Number: 5,727,554
Technology Area: Surgery
Patent Owner: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Requester: Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Firm Requesting: Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP., Irvine, CA
Date Requested: 8/25/2009
Invention Title: APPARATUS RESPONSIVE TO MOVEMENT OF A PATIENT DURING TREATMENT/DIAGNOSIS

Control Number: 90/009,538

Patent Number: 7,302,164
Technology Area: Television signal processing for dynamic recording or reproducing
Patent Owner: DATCARD Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA
Firm Requesting: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw, Pittman, LLP., Los Angeles, CA
Date Requested: 9/25/2009
Invention Title: SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA ONTO PORTABLE DIGITAL RECORDING MEDIA

Control Number: 90/009,547

Patent Number: 5,584,639
Technology Area: Material or article handling
Patent Owner: John H. Simmons, Columbus, GA
Firm Requesting: O’Malley and Firestone, Fort Wayne, IN
Date Requested: 9/15/2009
Invention Title: TOW TRAILER FOR TRANSPORTING PALLETS

Control Number: 90/009,548

Patent Number: 5,973,600
Technology Area: Communications: electrical
Patent Owner: Precision Dynamics Corporation, San Fernando, CA
Firm Requesting: Hoffman Wasson & Gitler, Arlington, VA
Date Requested: 9/3/2009
Invention Title: LAMINATED RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE

Control Number: 90/010,636

Patent Number: 5,623,660
Technology Area: Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Patent Owner: Data Match Enterprises of Texas, LLC., Marshall, TX
Firm Requesting: Owner
Date Requested: 9/3/2009
Invention Title: SYSTEM FOR REGULATING ACCESS TO DATA BASE FOR PURPOSES OF DATA BASE MANAGEMENT

Control Number: 90/010,641

Patent Number: 5,675,819
Technology Area: Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation
Patent Owner: IP Innovation, LLC., Northbrook, IL, Technology Licensing Corporation, Incline Village, NV
Requester: Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Firm Requesting: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP., New York, NY
Date Requested: 9/23/2009
Invention Title: DOCUMENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL USING GLOBAL WORD CO-OCCURRENCE PATTERNS

Control Number: 90/010,645

Patent Number: 6,466,862
Technology Area: Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Patent Owner: Traffic Information, LLC., Ilwaco, WA
Firm Requesting: Baker & Hostetler, LLP., Washington, DC
Date Requested: 9/25/2009
Invention Title: SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRAFFIC INFORMATION

Control Number: 90/010,646

Patent Number: 6,785,606
Technology Area: Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Patent Owner: Traffic Information, LLC., Ilwaco, WA
Firm Requesting: Baker & Hostetler, LLP., Washington, DC
Date Requested: 9/25/2009
Invention Title: SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRAFFIC INFORMATION