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IN RE TROLL BUSTERS BEWARE: FAILURE TO DISCLOSE REAL PARTY IN INTEREST WHEN FILING AN INTER PARTES REEXAMINATION
On May 26, 2008, Troll Busters LLC (Troll Busters) filed a request for inter partes reexamination of U. S. Patent No. 6,869,779 (“the ‘799 patent”). Originally, Troll Busters named itself as both the sole real party in interest and the third party requester. However, as the PTO became aware of Troll Buster’s website, http://www.troll-busters.com, questions arose as to whether the actual real party in interest was correctly identified as required by 35 U.S.C. § 311(b)(1) and 37 C.F.R. 1.915(b)(8).
On their website, Troll Busters proclaims that “Troll Busters invalidates patents, not just any patents but patents being asserted by patent trolls, those ugly beasts who try to dominate the innovations of others….Troll Busters takes aim and fires in our own name. The patent Troll will never know who or how many are behind the ‘hit’.” Read the rest of this entry »
