This week the Official Gazette noticed three inter partes reexamination requests. Facebook filed a request against Leader Technologies’ patent on a dynamic association of electronically stored information with iterative workflow changes. Nanoco Technologies filed a request against Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s patent on highly luminescent color selective nanocrystalline materials. Sybase filed a request against Telecommunication Systems’ patent on a system, method, and apparatus for automatically and dynamically updating options, features, and/or services available to a client device.

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: 95/001,259

Patent Number: 6,560,604
Technology Area: Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Patent Owner: Telecommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis, MD
Requester: Sybase, Inc.
Firm Requesting: Sughrue Mion, PLLC, Washington, DC
Date Requested: 11/12/2009
Invention Title: SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY UPDATING OPTIONS, FEATURES, AND/OR SERVICES AVAILABLE TO A CLIENT DEVICE

Control Number: 95/001,261

Patent Number: 7,139,761
Technology Area: Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Patent Owner: Leader Technologies, Inc., Westerville, OH
Requester: Facebook
Firm Requesting: Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP., Palo Alto, CA
Date Requested: 11/13/2009
Invention Title: DYNAMIC ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION WITH ITERATIVE WORKFLOW CHANGES

Control Number: 95/001,268

Patent Number: 6,861,155
Technology Area: Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Patent Owner: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Requester: Nanoco Technologies, LTD
Firm Requesting: Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri, LLP., Houston, TX
Date Requested: 11/19/2009
Invention Title: HIGHLY LUMINESCENT COLOR SELECTIVE NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS