{"id":358,"date":"2009-08-10T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T20:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/?p=358"},"modified":"2020-03-15T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T00:51:10","slug":"avsr-vs-msft-unpublicized-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2009\/08\/10\/avsr-vs-msft-unpublicized-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"AVSR vs. MSFT: unpublicized activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14 months ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/2008\/06\/03\/avsr-vs-msft-numbers-of-patents-or-patent-numbers\/\">said<\/a> &#8220;6,212,547 is likely more important than any of the other numbers above.&#8221;\u00a0 It looks to me from <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.uspto.gov\/external\/portal\/pair\">http:\/\/portal.uspto.gov\/external\/portal\/pair<\/a>\u00a0that June 5 of this year the U.S. PTO declared that patent invalid, i.e., mailed a final rejection to Avistar. However, this event seems to have gone unpublicized, and it looks like Avistar filed an appeal last week, so the story is not yet over. Avistar has reported other news, e.g., the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avistar.com\/company\/news_detail.aspx?id=167\">appointing<\/a> of a new CEO last month, but has been uncharacteristically silent on the Microsoft re-examination requests.<\/p>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:473,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/technologists.com\\\/notes\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/03\\\/avsr-vs-msft-numbers-of-patents-or-patent-numbers&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251101084425\\\/https:\\\/\\\/technologists.com\\\/notes\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/03\\\/avsr-vs-msft-numbers-of-patents-or-patent-numbers\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/technologists.com\\\/notes\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/03\\\/avsr-vs-msft-numbers-of-patents-or-patent-numbers\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-07 02:29:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-12 15:31:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-21 05:03:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-21T05:03:27+00:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:490,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/portal.uspto.gov\\\/external\\\/portal\\\/pair&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220512075707\\\/https:\\\/\\\/portal.uspto.gov\\\/external\\\/portal\\\/pair&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-12 15:31:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-21 05:03:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-25 03:52:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-25T03:52:52+00:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:491,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/avistar.com\\\/company\\\/news_detail.aspx?id=167&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20091027093403\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.avistar.com:80\\\/company\\\/news_detail.aspx?id=167&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-07 02:29:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-12 15:31:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-21 05:03:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-21T05:03:26+00:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 months ago I said &#8220;6,212,547 is likely more important than any of the other numbers above.&#8221;\u00a0 It looks to me from http:\/\/portal.uspto.gov\/external\/portal\/pair\u00a0that June 5 of this year the U.S. PTO declared that patent invalid, i.e., mailed a final rejection to Avistar. 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