Funai’s opposition to Vizio’s request for temporary relief on DTV...
Funai’s opposition to Vizio’s request for temporary relief on DTV patents failed to disclose that two days before Funai’s filing, the Patent and Trademark Office had rejected the company’s claims on its “'074” patent as invalid, Vizio said in…
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a reply filed Monday at the FCC. Vizio is asking the commission to accept its unusual reply into the case record because it’s “limited to new matters raised” in Funai’s opposition, Vizio said (CED April 1 p6). The PTO’s decision March 11 on the ‘074 patent doesn’t square with an International Trade Commission finding that the patent is valid and Vizio infringed it, Vizio said. It said the “validity of the ‘074 patent, and any claims that Funai is making under that patent, is very much in question.” Funai’s outside counsel, Cheryl Tritt, didn’t reply right away to an e-mail seeking comment.