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 partereexamination at the USPTO.  This listing is current as of 1 PM on Monday, November 6, 2017.

New IPR Petitions

Trial Number – IPR2018-00141
Filing Date – 11/3/2017
Patent # – 8,644,933
Title – TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING OF BATTERIES IN AN EXTERNAL CHARGER AND AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE
Patent Owner –  BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION
Petitioner – NEVRO CORP.
Tech Center – 3700

Trial Number – IPR2018-00148
Filing Date – 11/3/2017
Patent # – 8,646,172
Title – ELECTRODE ARRAY ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME
Patent Owner –  BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION
Petitioner – NEVRO CORP.
Tech Center – 3700

Trial Number – IPR2018-00149
Filing Date – 11/3/2017
Patent # – 6,983,196
Title – ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED VEHICLE LIFT AND VEHICLE SERVICE SYSTEM
Patent Owner –  VEHICLE SERVICE GROUP, LLC
Petitioner – ARI PHOENIX, INC.
Tech Center – 2100

Trial Number – IPR2018-00150
Filing Date – 11/3/2017
Patent # – 9,559,852
Title – CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY FUNCTIONS BASED ON ANTICIPATED CHANGES IN DYNAMIC MINUTIAE
Patent Owner –  MSIGNIA, INC.
Petitioner – InAuth, Inc.
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 # – 90/014,043
Date – 11/3/2017
Patent # – 8,304,193
Inventor –  ISMAGILOV, Rustem F. et al.
Assignee –  THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Title – A METHOD FOR CONDUCTING AN AUTOCATALYTIC REACTION IN PLUGS IN A MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM
Co-pending Litigation – RainDance Technologies, Inc. et al v. 10X Genomics, Inc., DED-1-15-cv-00152