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Interference - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

On March 9, 2010 the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") declared an Interference between its application serial number 09/351,542 as Senior Party and U.S. Patent 5,799,273 owned by Allvoice Developments Ltd. ("Allvoice") as Junior Party. The AVRS application was accorded the benefit of November 13, 1995 filing date whereas the Allvoice patent was accorded the filing date of September 27, 1996.

On April 27, 2012, a panel of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ("BPAI") entered a judgment that all of the claims in Application No. 09/351,542 are unpatentable. It should be noted that the Company’s four U.S Patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are unaffected by the decision of the BPAI

AVRS FILES REQUEST FOR REHEARING OF THE APRIL 27, 2012 BPAI DECISION

The complete copy of the filing can be seen by clicking on REQUEST FOR REHEARING.