Listed below are all new filings before PTAB of petitions 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 10 AM on Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

New IPR Petitions

Trial Number – IPR2018-00612
Filing Date – 2/13/2018
Patent # – 8,717,204
Title – METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DATA
Patent Owner –  REALTIME DATA, LLC
Petitioner – EchoStar Corporation; Hughes Network Systems, L.L.C.
Tech Center – 2800

Trial Number – IPR2018-00613
Filing Date – 2/13/2018
Patent # – 8,502,707
Title – DATA COMPRESSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
Patent Owner –  REALTIME DATA, LLC
Petitioner – EchoStar Corporation; Hughes Network Systems, L.L.C.
Tech Center – 2800

Trial Number – IPR2018-00614
Filing Date – 2/13/2018
Patent # – 9,054,728
Title – DATA COMPRESSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
Patent Owner –  REALTIME DATA, LLC
Petitioner – EchoStar Corporation; Hughes Network Systems, L.L.C.
Tech Center – 2800

Trial Number – IPR2018-00635
Filing Date – 2/13/2018
Patent # – 6,996,418
Title – APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OFDM DATA COMMUNICATIONS
Patent Owner –  BLACKBERRY LIMITED
Petitioner – NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Tech Center – 2600

Trial Number – IPR2018-00636
Filing Date – 2/13/2018
Patent # – 8,494,090
Title – DETECTING THE NUMBER OF TRANSMIT ANTENNAS IN A BASE STATION
Patent Owner –  BLACKBERRY LIMITED
Petitioner – NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Tech Center – 2600

Trial Number – IPR2018-00637
Filing Date – 2/13/2018
Patent # – 8,897,192
Title – SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION CONTROL START TIME
Patent Owner –  BLACKBERRY LIMITED
Petitioner – NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Tech Center – 2400

New CBM Review Petitions

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

Newly-Posted Reexam Requests

Control # – 90/014,089
Date – 2/13/2018
Patent # – 9,795,210
Inventor –  EVANS, Scott
Assignee –  EDGE-WORKS MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Title – EXPANDABLE CARRY POUCH WITH VARIABLE COMPRESSION
Co-pending Litigation – Edge-Works Manufacturing Company v. HSG, LLC, NCED-7-17-cv-00223