Listed below are all new filings before PTAB of requests for inter partes review (IPR) and covered business methods review (CBM).  Also listed are any newly-posted requests for ex parte reexamination at the USPTO.  This listing is current as of 9:45 AM on Tuesday, November 11, 2014.

New IPR Requests

Trial Number – IPR2015-00229
Filing Date – 11/10/2014
Patent # – 7,667,692
Title – HUMAN INTERFACE SYSTEM
Patent Owner –  APLIX IP HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Petitioner – SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC
Tech Center – 2600

Trial Number – IPR2015-00230
Filing Date – 11/10/2014
Patent # – 7,463,245
Title – HUMAN INTERFACE SYSTEM
Patent Owner –  APLIX IP HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Petitioner – SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC
Tech Center – 2600

Trial Number – IPR2015-00254
Filing Date – 11/10/2014
Patent # – 6,517,843
Title – REDUCTION OF PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS-2 VIRAL LOAD WITH INACTIVATED PCV-2
Patent Owner –  MERIAL, UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN, and THE QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
Petitioner – BIOMUNE COMPANY
Tech Center – 1600

Trial Number – IPR2015-00255
Filing Date – 11/10/2014
Patent # – 5,643,723
Title – DETECTION OF A GENETIC LOCUS ENCODING RESISTANCE TO RIFAMPIN IN MYCOBACTERIAL CULTURES AND IN CLINICAL SPECIMENS
Patent Owner –  ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC., and MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Petitioner – CEPHEID
Tech Center – 1800

New CBM Review Requests

There have been no new requests for CBM review since the last report.

Newly-Posted Reexam Requests

Control # – 90/013,395
Date – 11/10/2014
Patent # – 8,739,495
Inventor –  WITHERSPOON, Bill
Assignee –  EMSEAL JOINT SYSTEMS LTD.
Title – FIRE AND WATER RESISTANT EXPANSION JOINT SYSTEM
Co-pending Litigation – No documents posted on USPTO site.