Mercedes-Benz USA, LLCv.Velocity Patent, LLC

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Feb 4, 2015

08813270 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 4, 2015)

Trials@uspto.gov Paper 11
571-272-7822 Date: February 4, 2015

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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MERCEDES-BENZ USA, LLC, and
MERCEDES-BENZ U.S. INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Petitioner,

v.

VELOCITY PATENT, LLC,
Patent Owner.
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Case IPR2015-00290
Patent 5,954,781
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Before JAMESON LEE, GLENN J. PERRY, and PETER P. CHEN,
Administrative Patent Judges.

CHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.

ORDER
Dismissing Petition
37 C.F.R. § 42.104

IPR2015-00290
Patent 5,954,781

2
The Petition is directed to U.S. Patent No. 5,954,781 (“the ’781 patent”), and
states: “Petitioner files the present Petition challenging claims 31–32, 61–80, and
82–84 of the ’781 Patent, as currently amended or added in the [pending]
reexamination [Control No. 90/013,252] (Ex. 1013).” Pet. 1. Thus, none of the
claims challenged by Petitioner is a claim for which an inter partes review is
provided for by 35 U.S.C. § 311(b) (“[a] petitioner in an inter partes review may
request to cancel as unpatentable 1 or more claims of a patent”). The Petition does
not identify a cognizable claim under 35 U.S.C. § 312(a)(3) and 37 C.F.R.
§§ 42.104(b).
Accordingly, it is
ORDERED that the Petition is dismissed.

PETITIONER:
Celine Crowson
Ray Kurz
Joe Raffeto
celine.crowson@hoganlovells.com
raymond.kurz@hoganlovells.com
joseph.raffetto@hoganlovells.com

PATENT OWNER:
Patrick Richards
Brian Kwok
patrick@richardspatentlaw.com
bkwok@mavllp.com