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1 case as defendant.
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Entity type — not a company. The database entry "Eliyahou Harari" is a natural person, not a corporate entity. Dr. Eli Harari (commonly "Eli Harari") is a flash-memory inventor and executive, educated at Manchester University (B.S., physics) and Princeton (M.A./Ph.D., solid-state sciences). He co-founded SanDisk (originally SunDisk) in 1988 in Milpitas, California with Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan, served as CEO from inception and later as chairman, and retired as CEO in 2010 (IEEE; Flash Memory Summit). SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) was subsequently acquired by Western Digital. Because the record subject is an individual, no employee count, revenue band, ticker, or parent ownership attaches to it directly.
Products / services. Harari is neither an operating company nor a patent-assertion entity. His technical work spans floating-gate EEPROM, NAND flash, multi-level cell (MLC) storage, and flash-based storage systems and card formats (CompactFlash, SD). IEEE reported he holds more than 100 U.S. and international patents. Before SanDisk he held technical roles at Intel, Honeywell, and Hughes Microelectronics, and co-founded WaferScale Integration.
Litigation posture. The three tracked matters are not infringement suits but patent interference and priority proceedings — Patent Interference No. 105,606(JL) before the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, between Harari and co-inventor Sanjay Mehrotra (application 09/310,880) and Shane C. Hollmer and Lee E. Cleveland (U.S. Patent 5,828,601, "Programmed Reference," assigned to Advanced Micro Devices). The two Federal Circuit entries are appeals arising from that single interference; the plaintiff/defendant labels reflect which party petitioned for review in each appeal, not a commercial dispute. There is no district-court litigation and no plaintiff-friendly venue clustering such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable cases. Harari v. Hollmer, 602 F.3d 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2010) ("Harari I") reversed the Board on the standard for assessing incorporation-by-reference language. Hollmer v. Harari, 681 F.3d 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2012) ("Harari II") reversed again, holding that intervening applications in Harari's priority chain failed to adequately incorporate the '579 application, limiting the '880 application's effective filing date to December 20, 1996. Both turn on § 120 priority and § 112 written description in flash-memory technology.
Federal Circuit appeal reported at 681 F.3d 1351 and decided August 24, 2012, arising from Interference No. 105,606. The court vacated and remanded the BPAI's 'reasonable examiner' standard, holding that the 'person of ordinary skill' standard applies to the §120 continuity inquiry for the intervening '838 and '768 applications.