AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC vs. VB Assets, LLC

Explore the PTAB proceeding IPR2025-01365 filed by AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC on 2025-07-30. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Proceeding Overview

Proceeding Number

IPR2025-01365

Filing Date

2025-07-30

Accorded Filing Date

2025-07-30

Institution Decision Date

2025-12-11

Last Modified Date

2026-01-13

Proceeding Type

IPR

Termination Date

2025-12-11

Trial Status

Discretionary Denial

Parties & Counsel

Petitioner

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC

Represented By

Hadden, J.et al

Patent Owner / Respondent

VB Assets, LLC

Represented By

Argenti, Matthewet al

Tribunal & Venue

Tribunal

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (USPTO)

Technology Center

TC 2600 - Communications

Patent Information

1 Patent Involved

Respondent Application Number 14691445

Respondent Patent Number 10297249

External Links

Espacenet

Google Patents

Respondent Inventor Larry BALDWIN et al

Respondent Tech Center TC 2600 - Communications

Address and Attorney/Agent Information

18 Registered Practitioners

Power of Attorney & Correspondence

Firm / Entity Name Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Customer Number 133759

Address 650 Town Center Drive, 10th Floor, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, UNITED STATES

Attorney / Agent Information

Reg #	Name	Phone
32694	James Gatto	202-747-1900
36727	Daniel Yannuzzi	858-720-8924
42651	David Heisey	858-720-8900
42723	John Keville	713-431-7113
50855	Timothy Cremen	202-747-1900
54736	Martin Bader	858-720-7446
70746	Iiona Wheat	412-759-4361
70890	Xin Xie	703-597-4249
71561	Dominique Combs	858-720-8900
72209	Jesse Salen	858-720-8964
74113	Brian Restauro	202-747-1852
78910	Theodore Mayer	973-626-1119
79121	James Hurt	858-720-8959
80050	Pengju Shang	650-815-2600
80496	Joshua Weisenfeld	507-995-2247
81142	Samantha Young	858-720-7459
82092	Samuel Smith	202-747-1896
82810	Fangzhou Qiu	650-815-2652

Proceeding Documents

Director Discretionary Decision: Deny RESPONSE

2025-12-11 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Exhibit 1022-VB Assets' Responses to Interrogatories (Set 1) Case No. 24-cv-00839 (D. Del) Exhibit

2025-11-12 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Opposition to Patent Owner's Request for Discretionary Denial RESPONSE

2025-11-12 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1021

Exhibit 1021 - Docket Navigator statistics re Judge Noreika decisions on motions to stay pending IPR Exhibit

2025-11-12 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1024

Exhibit 1024-Nomination of John A. Squires to be Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Director of USPTO, Question for the Record (May 28, 2025) Exhibit

2025-11-12 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC vs. VB Assets, LLC

Proceeding Overview

Parties & Counsel

Petitioner

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC

Represented By

Patent Owner / Respondent

VB Assets, LLC

Represented By

Tribunal & Venue

Patent Information

Address and Attorney/Agent Information

Power of Attorney & Correspondence

Attorney / Agent Information

Proceeding Documents

Director Discretionary Decision: Deny RESPONSE

Exhibit 1022-VB Assets' Responses to Interrogatories (Set 1) Case No. 24-cv-00839 (D. Del) Exhibit

Petitioner's Opposition to Patent Owner's Request for Discretionary Denial RESPONSE

Exhibit 1021 - Docket Navigator statistics re Judge Noreika decisions on motions to stay pending IPR Exhibit

Exhibit 1024-Nomination of John A. Squires to be Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Director of USPTO, Question for the Record (May 28, 2025) Exhibit

Exhibit 1023-VB Assets Responses to Interrogatories (Set 1) Case No. 19-cv-01410 (D. Del.) Exhibit

Patent Owner's Preliminary Response POPR

PureWick Corp. v. Sage Prods. LLC, Case No. 1:19-cv-01508, Dkt. Entry entered May 4, 2021 (D. Del.) Exhibit

Excerpts from File History of U.S. Patent Application No. 13/739,826 (issued as U.S. Patent No. 9,922,639) Exhibit

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. v. Auris Health, Inc., Case No. 1:18-cv-01359, Dkt. Entry No. 238 (D. Del.) (Apr. 14, 2020) Exhibit

Exact Sciences Corp. v. Geneoscopy, Inc., Case No. 1:23-cv-01319, Dkt. Entry entered Nov. 1, 2024 (D. Del.) Exhibit

Excerpts from File History of U.S. Patent Application No. 13/842,804 (issued as U.S. Patent No. 9,424,840) Exhibit

Patent Owner's Brief ISO Discretionary Denial RESPONSE

Final Judgment, VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com Services, LLC, Dkt. No. 350, Case No. 1:19-cv-01410 (D. Del.) (filed May 16, 2025) Exhibit

Scheduling Order, VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com Services, LLC, Dkt. No. 19, Case No. 1:24-cv-00839 (D. Del.) (filed Dec. 9, 2024) Exhibit

Excerpts from File History of U.S. Patent Application No. 14/283,017 (issued as U.S. Patent No. 10,726,831) Exhibit

Excerpts from File History of U.S. Patent Application No. 13/776,594 (issued as U.S. Patent No. 10,102,845) Exhibit

Complaint for Patent Infringement and Exhibits, VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com Services, LLC, Case No. 1:24-cv-00839 (D. Del.) (filed July 18, 2024) Exhibit

Final Jury Instructions, VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., Case No. 1:19-cv-01410 (D. Del.) (Nov. 8, 2023) Exhibit

Complaint for Patent Infringement and Exhibits, VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., Case No. 1:19-cv-01410 (D. Del.) (filed July 29, 2019) Exhibit

Defendant’s Preliminary Invalidity Contentions, VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com Services, LLC, Case No. 1:24-cv-00839 (D. Del.) (served April 11, 2025) Exhibit

Amazon’s Identification of Proposed Constructions, VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com Services, LLC, Case No. 1:24-cv-00839 (D. Del.) (served June 25, 2025) Exhibit

Excerpts from File History of U.S. Patent Application No. 15/463,339 (issued as U.S. Patent No. 10,600,406) Exhibit

Federal Court Management Statistics, U.S. District Courts Profiles, District of Delaware (June 30, 2025) Exhibit

USPTO, FAQs for Interim Processes for PTAB Workload Management (archived), available at: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/ptab/faqs/interim-processes-workload-management Exhibit

Excerpts from File History of U.S. Patent Application No. 15/454,832 (issued as U.S. Patent No. 10,706,843) Exhibit

Notice: Patent Owner's Power of Attorney NOTICE

Notice: Patent Owner's Mandatory Notices NOTICE

Notice: Notice filing date accorded NOTICE

Asthana, A. et al, “A Small Domain Communications System for ..." Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 16 of 16 Exhibit

Declaration of Padhraic Smyth, Ph.D. Exhibit

Designing the User Interface for Multimodal Speech (Oviatt) Exhibit

Claim Construction Memorandum Order in VB Assets, LLC, v. Amazon.com, Inc. Exhibit

Lucente, M., “Conversational interfaces for e-commerce applications” Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 13 of 16 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 11 of 16 Exhibit

U.S. Patent No. 6,757,362-Cooper Exhibit

Notice: Power of Attorney NOTICE

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 1 of 16 Exhibit

Certified English Translation of Japanese Patent Appl. No. JP2004334591A Exhibit

Certified English Translation of Japanese Patent Appl. No. 2004145025A Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 5 of 16 Exhibit

Japanese Patent Application No. JP2004334591A Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 15 of 16 Exhibit

Excerpt from Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition (2002) Exhibit

U.S. Patent No. 6,859,776-Cohen Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 4 of 16 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 12 of 16 Exhibit

Declaration of R. Watters on Authentication of Publication-Part 2 of 2 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 3 of 16 Exhibit

Japanese Patent Application No. 2004145025A Exhibit

U.S. Patent No. 10,297,249 Exhibit

Prosecution File History for the ’249 patent - Part 3 of 3 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 14 of 16 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 6 of 16 Exhibit

Prosecution File History for the ’249 patent - Part 2 of 3 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 2 of 16 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 8 of 16 Exhibit

Complaint, VB Assets, LLC, v. Amazon.com Services, LLC, 1:24-cv-00839-MN Exhibit

Petition: as filed PETITION

Curriculum Vitae of Padhraic Smyth, Ph.D. Exhibit

Kennwick-US Patent Publication 2004 0193420 A1 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 9 of 16 Exhibit

Huang et al., “Spoken Language Processing: ..."-Part 7 of 16 Exhibit