US 6937187

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Let me check specifically for any 2026 CAFC docket activity and the full claim set.

Summary of US Patent 6,937,187

Caveat up front: I searched for CAFC dockets in 2026 involving this specific patent number and found no results connecting US 6,937,187 to any 2026 Federal Circuit appeal. The most recent Federal Circuit activity I can find attached to this patent number is a 2022 opinion (No. 20-2008). If you have a CAFC 2026 docket number, I could not confirm it from available sources.

Bibliographic data (from the USPTO Official Gazette entry and Google Patents)

Family note: Application 10/461,890 is a continuation-in-part of 10/190,745 (filed Jul. 8, 2002, now US 6,734,821), which is itself a CIP of 09/715,860 (filed Nov. 17, 2000, now US 6,417,801) — hence the 2000-11-17 priority date. (Source: USPTO OG via Indiana University virtual disk library; Google Patents.)

Abstract (verbatim)

"Method and apparatus for locating position of a satellite signal receiver is described. In one example, pseudoranges are obtained that estimate the range of a satellite signal receiver to a plurality of satellites. An absolute time and a position are computed using the pseudoranges at a first time. The absolute time is then used to compute another position at a subsequent time. In another example, a plurality of states associated with a satellite signal receiver are estimated, where the plurality of states includes a time tag error state. A dynamic model is then formed relating the plurality of states, the dynamic model operative to compute position of the satellite signal receiver."

Plain-language overview of the independent claims

Claim 1 — "A method, comprising:"

1. Estimating a plurality of states associated with a satellite signal receiver, where those states include a time tag error state; and
2. Forming a dynamic model relating those states, the model being operative to compute the receiver's position.

In plain terms: instead of requiring the receiver to know precise GPS absolute time, the method treats the difference between the receiver's local clock and true satellite (GPS) time as one of the tracked "states," then builds a motion/dynamics model over those states so that the receiver's position can be computed. The "time tag error" is the value representing the difference between absolute time and local time (t_absolute = t_local − t_s), which the specification distinguishes from the "common mode error."

Claim 9 — "A mobile device, comprising:"

1. A satellite signal receiver that provides pseudoranges estimating the device's range to a plurality of satellites; and
2. A sequential estimator (e.g., a Kalman filter) having a plurality of states associated with the satellite signal receiver, including a time tag error state relating a local time associated with the receiver to an absolute time associated with signals from the plurality of satellites.

In plain terms: the apparatus counterpart — a mobile device (e.g., a GPS-enabled handset) whose position filter carries a "time tag error" state alongside conventional position/common-mode-error states, so the device can converge on position even without a precise absolute time reference.

Remaining claims (2–8 and 10): These appear to be dependent claims narrowing the above. I do not have authoritative verbatim text for claims 2–8 and 10 from my sources, so I will not reconstruct them; treat any description of them as unverified. (The 2022 CAFC litigation over this patent was resolved at the ITC on domestic-industry grounds, so the full claim set was not reproduced in the appellate opinions I retrieved.)

Litigation history found for this patent number

• ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-602 — Global Locate/SiRF era (the patent appears in the "family has litigation" data listing this investigation).
• CAFC No. 09-1262 — an earlier Federal Circuit appeal associated with the patent family (relevant to the SiRF dispute over US 6,417,801 / 6,937,187 / 6,704,651 / 6,651,000 / 7,158,080).
• ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1119 — Broadcom Corp. v. Toyota/Panasonic/Denso/Renesas/Pioneer et al. (filed May 7, 2018). US 6,937,187 was one of six asserted patents. Per reporting, the ALJ/Commission ultimately found no violation, and the Federal Circuit affirmed on March 8–9, 2022 in Broadcom Corp. v. ITC, No. 20-2008 (opinion addresses the '583 and '752 patents; the '187 patent did not remain a live issue in the appeal).
• E.D. Tex. No. 2:18-cv-00190 (Broadcom v. Toyota) — stayed pending the parallel ITC investigation.

Uncertainty flags

• I could not verify any 2026 CAFC docket involving US 6,937,187; a targeted search returned zero results. The 2026 Federal Circuit material surfaced in my searches concerned Gamevice v. Nintendo (unrelated patents).
• The verbatim text of dependent claims 2–8 and 10 is not confirmed from my sources.
• Assignee information is per Google Patents' automated "current assignee" field; the USPTO assignment records show a multi-step chain (Global Locate → Broadcom → Avago → Broadcom), and Google's legal-status disclaimer notes this is not a legal conclusion.

I'll research litigation involving US patent 6937187 using the sources you specified.

Let me dig into the specific case numbers and jurisdictions identified.

Litigation Involving U.S. Patent No. 6,937,187

Patent: U.S. 6,937,187 B2 — "Method and apparatus for forming a dynamic model to locate position of a satellite receiver"
Application No.: 10/461,890 | Filed: June 13, 2003 | Issued: August 30, 2005
Priority: November 17, 2000 (CIP of U.S. 6,417,801, filed via Ser. No. 10/190,745, itself a CIP of Ser. No. 09/715,860)
Original assignee: Global Locate, Inc. → Broadcom Corporation (2015) → Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (2017) → Broadcom (2018)
Status: Expired – Lifetime (anticipated expiration November 17, 2020)

I identified two distinct litigation campaigns implicating the '187 patent, plus the appellate and related proceedings described below. Note up front: I did not have direct PACER/Docket Alarm dockets for every case; where a case number or filing date is not confirmed by a source I retrieved, I say so explicitly.

1. Global Locate v. SiRF et al. — ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-602

Details: The '187 patent was asserted against SiRF's SiRFstarIII and InstantGPS chips and against products of E-TEN, Pharos, MiTAC and Mio. On August 8, 2008, the ALJ issued a 216-page final initial determination finding a Section 337 violation as to all six patents, including infringement of claims 1 and 9 of the '187 patent, and finding all asserted claims not invalid and not unenforceable. The ALJ also rejected the respondents' § 101 challenge to the '187 and '801 claims (later reviewed in light of In re Bilski).

On January 15, 2009, the Commission issued its final determination affirming the violation (with modifications to three findings involving the '346, '651 and '000 patents — not the '187 patent), denying respondents' petition for reconsideration on the § 101/Bilski issue, and issuing a limited exclusion order covering, inter alia, GPS chips infringing claims 1 and 9 of the '187 patent, plus cease-and-desist orders against SiRF, Mio and Pharos. The notice was published January 23, 2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 14).

• ITC final determination notice: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2009-01-23/html/E9-1428.htm
• Commission Opinion (Pub. 4137): https://www.usitc.gov/intellectual_property/documents/pub4137.pdf

Parallel district court action (C.D. Cal.): Broadcom/Global Locate also sued SiRF in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Santa Ana) in two waves — a January 2007 action and a May 2008 action asserting four additional patents. I found secondary-source references to these filings but could not confirm the case numbers or final disposition from a primary docket, so I flag those details as unverified.

2. SiRF Technology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission — Federal Circuit Appeal

Details: The Federal Circuit affirmed the Commission, including its rejection of the § 101 challenge to method claims of the '187 and '801 patents under In re Bilski. The opinion is on the Federal Circuit's own site (the court's published decision in this appeal is commonly cited as SiRF Technology, Inc. v. ITC; I retrieved the slip opinion at http://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/09-1262.pdf). I am confident of the docket number (2009-1262); I am not asserting a specific reporter citation from memory without verification.

The same Federal Circuit source also referenced the related decision Kyocera Wireless Corp. v. ITC, 545 F.3d 1340 (Fed. Cir. 2008), discussed in the record.

3. Broadcom v. Toyota et al. — ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1119

Details: Broadcom sought to block importation of Toyota vehicles and infotainment head units. Claims 1–3, 5 and 9 of the '187 patent were among the claims at issue at the time of the final initial determination. On November 13, 2019, ALJ Dee Lord issued a final ID finding no violation as to every asserted patent (with a corrected FID on November 18, 2019). On April 30/May 6, 2020, the Commission affirmed the no-violation finding with modified reasoning and terminated the investigation (85 Fed. Reg. 88; notice published May 6, 2020). Notably, by the Commission-review stage only the '583 and '752 patents remained at issue, so the '187 patent was not part of the Commission's substantive review.

• Commission termination notice: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-05-06/html/2020-09636.htm
• Commission notice re: amended complaint/respondents: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-11-07/pdf/2018-24288.pdf

4. Broadcom Corp. v. Toyota Motor Corp. et al. — Parallel District Court Case

Docket reference: https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Texas_Eastern_District_Court/2--18-cv-00190/Broadcom_Corporation_v._Toyota_Motor_Corporation_et_al/

5. Broadcom Corp. v. Renesas / Consolidation — Federal Circuit Appeal No. 20-2008

Details: This appeal arose out of 337-TA-1119 and parallel IPRs (Renesas v. Broadcom, IPR2019-01039 and IPR2019-01041), but by this stage only the '583 and '752 patents were on review — not the '187 patent. Listed for completeness because it is the appellate endpoint of the same investigation.

• Opinion PDF: https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/cafc/20-2008/20-2008-2022-03-08.pdf

Related (Non-Litigation) Proceeding Worth Noting

An inter partes reexamination of the '187 patent concluded in May 2012 with all claims confirmed as patentable without amendment. Broadcom relied on this reexamination certificate in the 2018 ITC complaint. This is not litigation but is directly relevant to the '187 patent's validity posture and is cited in the ITC/trade-press coverage. (Source: IPWatchdog, https://ipwatchdog.com/2018/06/17/itc-337-complaint-toyota-vehicles-infringing-infotainment-chip-patents/)

Summary Table of Case Identifiers

Caveats and Confidence Levels

• High confidence: the identity of the two ITC investigations (337-TA-602 and 337-TA-1119), the Federal Circuit appeal numbers (2009-1262 and 20-2008), the E.D. Tex. case number (2:18-cv-00190), the parties, and the outcomes described above — all grounded in primary Federal Register/USITC/CAFC sources retrieved above.
• Lower confidence / unverified: the C.D. Cal. district court case numbers, filing details and disposition for the Global Locate/SiRF parallel litigation; and the precise termination mechanism in 2:18-cv-00190.
• I did not find any litigation naming the '187 patent in a Western District of Texas venue or in a post-2022 assertion (the patent expired November 17, 2020, which limits subsequent enforcement activity).
• Per your instruction, I searched on and reported only results tied to the literal number 6,937,187. Results for other patents (e.g., U.S. 7,437,583, 7,512,752, 8,902,104) are reported only where they appear in the same cases as the '187 patent; I did not substitute similar numbers.

If you need me to pull the actual PACER docket for 2:18-cv-00190 or the C.D. Cal. cases to confirm filing dates and dispositions, I can attempt that with more targeted queries — but I would want to retrieve the primary docket rather than rely on secondary aggregators.

I'll verify the canonical "no PTAB activity" block against web sources and pin down the IPRs mentioned in the litigation section (IPR2019-01039 / -01041) to confirm whether they touch the '187 patent.

The canonical block and search results agree the IPRs (2019-01039/-01041) belong to the '583 and '752 patents, not the '187. Let me run two final confirmatory searches on the '187 patent's reexamination history and any PTAB trial it could have spawned.

PTAB proceedings on file — US 6,937,187

Canonical source check: The structured "PTAB proceedings on file" block for this patent states that the USPTO Open Data Portal API returns no AIA trial proceedings for US 6,937,187. I ran independent web searches to test that entry and found no IPR, PGR, or CBM naming this patent. The two IPRs that surfaced in I repeated searches (IPR2019-01039 / IPR2019-01041, Renesas v. Broadcom, FWD 2020-10-30) are directed to US 7,437,583 and US 7,512,752 — not the '187 patent. They appear in the earlier-generated litigation section as "related," and that framing is correct; do not attribute those FWDs to the '187 patent.

Proceedings overview

Total AIA trial proceedings on US 6,937,187: 0. There are no active proceedings, no claims invalidated at the PTAB, no claims sustained in an FWD, no settlements, and no institution denials, because no petition was ever filed. The defensive posture this creates is mixed but ultimately favorable to a defendant: the patent has never been tested in an AIA trial, so there is no PTAB estoppel creating a safe harbor — but it is also expired (anticipated expiration 2020-11-17), all claims are unenforceable going forward, and the last adversarial validity test (a pre-AIA reexamination that confirmed all claims, plus invalidity defenses rejected in ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-602) is more than a decade old. If a demand letter cites this patent today, the operative defense is expiration and claim-level validity history, not a PTAB kill shot.

Breakdown: Active — 0 | Claims invalidated — 0 | Claims sustained — 0 | Settled — 0 | Institution denied — 0.

No AIA proceedings to analyze — but two adjacent items a defendant should know

There is no ### {PROCEEDING_NUMBER} entry to populate. Instead, here are the two non-AIA events that shape the patent's validity record, flagged clearly so they are not mistaken for PTAB trials.

(Not a PTAB trial) Inter partes reexamination of the '187 patent — concluded May 2012

• Type: Inter partes reexamination (pre-AIA, 35 U.S.C. §§ 311–318 as then in force). This is not an AIA trial and did not run through the PTAB trial docket. Inter partes reexamination was handled by the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU), with appeals going to the Board (PTAB) only if the examiner's rejection was appealed.
• Filed: The SiRF-side reexamination campaign began in 2008. SiRF confirmed in a 2009 filing that it had requested ex parte reexamination of four Broadcom/Global Locate patents-in-suit in the Central District of California action (source: SiRF Technology SEC filing, http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9OTAzM3xDaGlsZElEPS0xfFR5cGU9Mw==&t=1). I could not confirm from a primary source whether the '187 patent's reexamination was ex parte or inter partes, nor the control number. Treat the "inter partes" characterization as unverified.
• Status: Concluded; all claims confirmed as patentable without amendment (per the litigation section's May 2012 finding, and Broadcom's reliance on the reexamination certificate in its 2018 ITC complaint).
• Judge panel: Not applicable (CRU examiner, not an APJ panel). No panel names available.
• Petition grounds: Invalidity/prior-art rejections raised by the third-party requester (reportedly SiRF). Specific references not confirmed.
• Final determination: All claims confirmed — this is the opposite of a claim cancellation and is the single most important fact in the patent's validity posture. In the 2018 ITC case, respondents argued that because the reexamination confirmed the claims, an invalidity challenger faces the PowerOasis / Shire presumption that the examiner considered the prior art and did his job, adding to the challenger's burden. (Source: ITC 337-TA-1119 briefing retrieved via PTAB E2E / ptacts.uspto.gov, petition documents 1525844 and 1524601.)
• Appeal: None confirmed. Because all claims were confirmed without amendment, there was no adverse rejection for a patent owner to appeal to the Board.
• Defensive value: Low direct value to a defendant, and mildly adverse — the confirmed-claims certificate gives the patent owner a "the PTO already blessed this" argument. It is not an estoppel event under § 315(e), because § 315(e) applies only to AIA IPRs.

(Not a PTAB trial) The 2019-2022 Renesas IPRs — different patents, do not cite as '187 precedent

• IPR2019-01039 (filed 2019-05-03; instituted 2019-11-06; FWD 2020-10-30; panel Daniel J. Galligan, Norman H. Beamer, Thomas L. Giannetti; appeal No. 21-1260) and IPR2019-01041 — challenge US 7,437,583 and US 7,512,752.
• Outcome: claims 25–26 of the '583 patent and claims 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 of the '752 patent held obvious; claims 17, 18, 20–24 of the '583 patent survived. Affirmed by the Federal Circuit in Broadcom Corp. v. ITC, No. 20-2008 (cons. 21-1260, 21-1511), decided 2022-03-09 (https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/cafc/20-2008/20-2008-2022-03-08.pdf).
• Why this matters: the same petitioner (Renesas), the same patent owner (Broadcom), and the same ITC investigation (337-TA-1119) that asserted the '187 patent. Renesas could have petitioned on the '187 patent and did not. That is a meaningful data point on how the '187's 2012 reexamination-confirmed claims were viewed by a sophisticated challenger with every incentive to attack them.

Strategic summary

Claim status of the '187 patent. No claim of US 6,937,187 has ever been canceled in any proceeding. All ten claims survived the 2012 reexamination intact, and the ITC has twice adjudicated the patent: in Inv. No. 337-TA-602 (2008–2009) the ALJ and Commission found claims 1 and 9 infringed and not invalid, affirmed by the Federal Circuit at 2009-1262; in Inv. No. 337-TA-1119 (2018–2020) the asserted claims were narrowed to claims 1–3, 5, 9, and 10 (claims 4, 6–8 were terminated by withdrawal per Order No. 49, 2019-06-13), and the ALJ/Commission found no violation — but note that the Commission's 2020-05-06 no-violation affirmance on the merits addressed only the '583, '752, and '104 patents. The '187 patent dropped out of the merits analysis before the Commission stage, so 337-TA-1119 is not a validity exoneration of the '187 claims. Claims 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 have never been adjudicated to a merits conclusion anywhere. Do not describe the '187 patent as "sustained" beyond the 2012 reexamination — it is more accurate to say all claims were confirmed in reexamination; claims 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, and 11 were litigated in 337-TA-602 with claims 1 and 9 expressly upheld; and the remaining claims are essentially untested.

Estoppel landscape. This is simple and important: there is no § 315(e)(2) estoppel against anyone on the '187 patent, because there was never an AIA IPR. A defendant today faces no statutorily foreclosed grounds. Every prior-art theory is available — § 102, § 103, and (unlike an IPR) § 112 indefiniteness/written-description theories are all on the table in litigation, which matters because the claim-construction fight in 337-TA-1119 centered on whether the "dynamic model" and "time tag error state" terms are definite and distinct from the common mode error. The 2012 reexamination confirmation does carry the PowerOasis presumption, but that is a burden-shifting argument, not a bar.

Pattern signals. Broadcom (and its Global Locate/Avago predecessors) has been a prolific PTAB respondent — the '583, '752, '027, '844, and '104 patents all drew challenges from Renesas and others in the 2018–2020 window — yet the '187 patent drew zero petitions. No defensive aggregator (Unified Patents, RPX) IPR on this patent was found; the Unified Patents links in the file are litigation tracking, not PTAB activity. The absence of a petition is consistent with the patent's vintage (a 2000-priority patent already expired by 2020-11-17, making IPR economically pointless once expiration was visible on the horizon) rather than proof of extraordinary strength.

Recommended next steps

1. If you are a defendant facing a demand citing US 6,937,187: the first response is expiration. Anticipated expiration was 2020-11-17 and Google Patents reports status "Expired – Lifetime." Damages exposure for pre-expiration conduct is still theoretically live but subject to the § 286 six-year limitation, meaning recovery is limited to infringement occurring on or after roughly 2020-09-29. Confirm the maintenance-fee history and the exact reexamination certificate date.

2. Do not represent to a court that the claims were PTAB-tested. They were not. The correct and stronger framing is: all claims confirmed in a 2012 reexamination (certificate issued by the CRU, not the Board); claims 1 and 9 adjudged infringed and not invalid in ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-602, affirmed at Fed. Cir. No. 2009-1262 (http://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/09-1262.pdf); and the 2018 ITC case (337-TA-1119) terminated on no violation / no domestic industry, 85 Fed. Reg. 88 (2020-05-06), https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-05-06/html/2020-09636.htm.

3. Pull the primary documents before relying on anything above. I did not retrieve (a) the reexamination control number or the certificate itself, (b) the full text of the 337-TA-1119 FID's treatment of the '187 claims, or (c) any PACER docket confirming the disposition of E.D. Tex. 2:18-cv-00190. The 2018 ITC and CLOSED/stayed parallel district case are the likely source of any remaining threat, so obtain the FID (ALJ Dee Lord, 2019-11-13) and the Commission opinion directly from USPTO PTAB E2E / USITC EDIS rather than from the secondary aggregators quoted here.

4. Enforcement reality check. With the patent expired and every IPR window long closed, an IPR-based defense strategy is moot — there is no PTAB lever to pull. Any live dispute about this patent will be resolved on the district-court or ITC record, on § 112, § 101, and prior-art grounds that a challenger remains entirely free to raise.

Uncertainty flags: (i) I could not verify the '187 reexamination control number, its ex parte vs. inter partes character, or the requester from a primary source; (ii) I found no evidence of any '187-specific PTAB appeal, and the confirmed-claims outcome in 2012 makes an adverse Board appeal in that reexamination implausible, but I cannot rule one out without the control file; (iii) all 2026-dated queries returned no PTAB or CAFC material connected to patent number 6,937,187.

I'll research the assignment record for US 6937187 using the USPTO Assignment Center and cross-reference sources.

Let me try the USPTO Assignment API and Google Patents legal events directly.

Let me try to pull the actual assignment records from USPTO sources and cross-reference the acquisition chain.

Assignment & Ownership Analysis — US Patent 6,937,187

Data-retrieval caveat (read first): I attempted to pull the reel/frame numbers and correspondent-of-record fields from the USPTO Assignment Center (assignmentcenter.uspto.gov) via the available research tools. Those fields were not retrievable — the tools returned general web results, not the Assignment Center's underlying query output. The ownership timeline below is reconstructed from the Google Patents legal-events mirror of USPTO assignment data contained in the authoritative patent text supplied in this session (which reproduces each USPTO "reassignment" record with conveyance type, assignor and assignee). I did not fabricate reel/frame numbers or correspondent names. Where a field is unretrieved, I say so. Verify on the Assignment Center at https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ by searching patent number 6,937,187.

Inventors

• Both inventors assigned their rights to Global Locate, Inc. by recorded assignment dated 2003-08-27 — i.e., roughly two months after the 2003-06-13 filing. This is an ordinary employee/employer assignment, executed contemporaneously with the CIP filing.
• No unusual departure pattern. There is no evidence either inventor left the assignee within 12 months of filing; both appear to have moved with the portfolio through the 2007 Broadcom acquisition of Global Locate. (Employment history is corroborated by the litigation record and public company materials; I did not retrieve a primary HR/employment record, so treat the "employer at filing" attribution as high-confidence-but-not-primary-sourced.)

Original assignee

• Global Locate, Inc., San Jose, California — named on the face of the issued patent.
• Primary line of business: fabless assisted-GPS (A-GPS) technology — GPS baseband software, chipset reference designs, and a server-side A-GPS data service. This is the very technology the '187 claims address (time-free processing where the receiver lacks absolute time).
• Shipped a product embodying the claims? Yes, functionally. Global Locate commercialized A-GPS software/hardware IP embodying the time-free positioning taught in the specification; it was a technology supplier rather than a consumer-device OEM.
• Current status: Acquired and dissolved into Broadcom. Broadcom Corporation acquired Global Locate in July 2007 (widely reported around $146 million) and continued Global Locate's litigation campaigns (see prior sections) under the Broadcom name. Global Locate no longer exists as an independent entity.

Assignment timeline

⚠️ All reel/frame numbers and correspondent-of-record entries for this patent were NOT retrieved with the tools available. The dates and conveyance types below come from the Google Patents legal-events mirror of the USPTO records. I am flagging the missing fields rather than reconstructing them. There are recorded post-issuance assignments — this is not a "no records" patent.

• Approx. 2003 / recorded 2003-08-27 — Reel NOT RETRIEVED/Frame NOT RETRIEVED

  • Conveyance: Assignment (Assignment of Assignors' Interest)
  • Assignor: Charles Abraham; Frank van Diggelen
  • Assignee: Global Locate, Inc.
  • Correspondent: NOT RETRIEVED
  • Context: Founder/employee→company assignment executed contemporaneously with the CIP filing — standard origination, not a transfer between related operating entities.

• 2015-09-16 — Reel NOT RETRIEVED/Frame NOT RETRIEVED

  • Conveyance: Assignment
  • Assignor: Global Locate, Inc.
  • Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
  • Correspondent: NOT RETRIEVED
  • Context: Internal M&A clean-up. The Broadcom/Global Locate deal closed in 2007; this 2015 recordation is a delayed formal recordal of the acquisition (likely tidying before the Avago–Broadcom restructuring). Not a fire-sale.

• 2016-02-11 — Reel NOT RETRIEVED/Frame NOT RETRIEVED

  • Conveyance: Patent Security Agreement (security interest, not an ownership transfer)
  • Assignor: Broadcom Corporation
  • Assignee: Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent
  • Correspondent: NOT RETRIEVED
  • Context: Securitization / financing collateral. Broadcom pledged patents as collateral for the debt facilities backing the Avago–Broadcom transaction. Broadcom retained ownership; no chain-of-title change. (Compare acquisition, internal reorg, securitization, transfer-to-asserter, defensive aggregation, or change of name only.)

• 2017-02-01 — Reel NOT RETRIEVED/Frame NOT RETRIEVED

  • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignor's Interest
  • Assignor: Broadcom Corporation
  • Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
  • Correspondent: NOT RETRIEVED
  • Context: Internal reorg to an IP-holding subsidiary following the Avago/Broadcom merger — a public-company intra-group conveyance, not an arm's-length transfer to an unrelated acquirer.

• 2017-02-03 — Reel NOT RETRIEVED/Frame NOT RETRIEVED

  • Conveyance: Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents
  • Assignor: Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent
  • Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
  • Correspondent: NOT RETRIEVED
  • Context: Release of the 2016 security interest (the reverse entry to the 2016-02-11 pledge). Ownership consolidation, not a transfer to an asserter.

• 2018-05-02 — Reel NOT RETRIEVED/Frame NOT RETRIEVED

  • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors' Interest
  • Assignor: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
  • Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
  • Correspondent: NOT RETRIEVED
  • Context: Internal consolidation back into the asserting operating entity — recorded 5 days before the May 7, 2018 ITC complaint against Toyota et al. (see signal 5 below).

Missing entry note: I did not surface any separate "Change of Name," "License," or "Merger" record distinct from the assignments above. If one exists on the Assignment Center it is not reflected in the Google Patents legal-events feed.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 6937187
    2000 : Priority date from parent application
    2003 : Filed Jun 13 by Global Locate
         : Inventors assign to Global Locate
    2005 : Patent issued Aug 30
    2007 : Broadcom acquires Global Locate
    2015 : Acquisition assignment recorded to Broadcom
    2016 : Security interest pledged to Bank of America
    2017 : Intra group transfer to Avago Technologies General IP
         : Security interest released
    2018 : Assignment consolidated back to Broadcom Corp
         : ITC complaint vs Toyota filed May 7
    2020 : Patent expires Nov 17

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — NOT PRESENT.
No link in the chain is a licensing-only LLC. Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. carries "IP" in its name, but the name alone is not a finding: it is an intra-group IP-holding subsidiary of a public operating semiconductor company (Avago/Broadcom), and the patent was consolidated back into the operating parent (Broadcom Corporation) on 2018-05-02. No single-purpose Delaware/Texas LLC, no registered-agent-service address surfaced.

2. Known asserter in the chain — NOT PRESENT.
None of the assignees (Global Locate, Broadcom, Avago, Bank of America as collateral agent) appear on the enumerated NPE lists (Acacia, Marathon, IV, IPNav, Wi-LAN, Mosaid/Conversant, Vringo, Pendrell, Round Rock, etc.). Broadcom's assertion activity is operating-company assertion against competitors (SiRF; Toyota/Panasonic/Denso/Renesas), not NPE assertion.

3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — UNCLEAR / NOT RETRIEVED.
The correspondent-of-record field — the most probative tell for shell-LLC chains — could not be retrieved with the available tools. I cannot confirm or rule out a repeat recording attorney across the 2015/2016/2017/2018 entries. This is a genuine evidence gap, not a negative finding. The chain here is a single public company's counsel, so even a repeat correspondent would likely be an operating-company IP-department firm rather than an NPE filer.

4. Cascading transfers — NOT PRESENT as an NPE signal (present as benign corporate events).
There are multiple transfers in a short window (2015-09-16, 2016-02-11, 2017-02-01, 2017-02-03, 2018-05-02). However, each is tied to a documented public-company event (the 2015 announced / 2016 closed Avago–Broadcom combination and subsequent intra-group restructuring), not to chained unrelated LLCs sharing a correspondent address. The pattern is merger-driven, so I do not score it as a troll signal.

5. Pre-litigation transfer — PRESENT (benign context).
The 2018-05-02 Avago→Broadcom assignment was recorded five days before the 2018-05-07 ITC complaint (337-TA-1119, Broadcom v. Toyota et al.), and the earlier 2015-09-16 Global Locate→Broadcom assignment sits ~2.5 years before that filing. The 2018 entry is a classic "clean up standing before suit" move, but the assignee is the operating parent (Broadcom Corporation) asserting against actual competitors — venue/standing hygiene, not NPE venue-shopping. Scored present, weight low.

6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — NOT PRESENT.
No Chapter 7/11 proceeding, no court-supervised sale. Global Locate was sold as a going concern to Broadcom (2007); the 2015 recordation was a delayed recordal, not a distressed sale.

7. Privateering — NOT PRESENT / weak.
Broadcom acquired Global Locate (2007) and then itself litigated the portfolio. There is no evidence of transferring the patent to a third-party NPE to assert on Broadcom's behalf; Broadcom asserted in its own name through the ITC and district court.

8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — NOT PRESENT.
The chain terminates at Broadcom Corporation, an operating semiconductor company — not at RPX, AST, LOT, Unified Patents, or OIN. The patent is therefore not neutralized by a defensive aggregator.

Related validity posture: An inter partes reexamination concluded in May 2012 with all claims confirmed as patentable without amendment (reported in IPWatchdog's 2018 coverage of the ITC complaint). Not an NPE signal, but relevant to why Broadcom could assert the patent against Toyota et al. years later.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion.
The chain is a single continuous ownership line through operating semiconductor companies — Global Locate (2003-08-27) → Broadcom (2015-09-16) → internal pledge/restructure → back to Broadcom Corporation (2018-05-02) — with zero shell-entity, known-asserter, bankruptcy, or defensive-aggregator signals. The current assignee, Broadcom Corporation, ships GPS chips embodying the claims (e.g., the BCM47755 announced in 2017) and asserted the '187 patent against actual competitors (SiRF; then Toyota/Panasonic/Denso/Renesas in ITC 337-TA-1119). The only caveat to full confidence is the unretrieved correspondent-of-record and reel/frame fields, which are the fields that would let me definitively rule out a hidden NPE intermediary; on the evidence available, no such intermediary exists.

Verify at: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ → search 6,937,187 (also mirrored at https://patents.google.com/patent/US6937187 — see "Reassignments" / legal events).

Confidence & open items

• High confidence: the existence, dates, conveyance types, assignors and assignees of the six records above (grounded in the Google Patents USPTO-mirror legal events in the authoritative patent text, consistent with the public Broadcom/Avago merger chronology).
• Not retrieved / flagged: reel/frame numbers and correspondent of record for every entry. I could not surface these; they must be pulled from the Assignment Center directly to complete signals #3.
• No fabrication: I did not invent reel/frame or attorney names. If the Assignment Center shows additional entries (e.g., a separate merger or change-of-name record), those would need to be added.

I'll search for the prior-art citations associated with US 6,937,187, using both its own "References Cited" (prior art cited on the face of the patent / in prosecution) and the forward-citation data available on Google Patents and USPTO.

I have partial citation data. Let me pull the specific "Patent Citations" list for the '187 patent and its prosecution-history references (including the parent applications that were cited against it).

Let me try to retrieve the actual citation list from the patent's own "References Cited" section and prosecution history.

Preliminary note on method and a hard limitation

I ran targeted searches against the USPTO/Google Patents record for US 6,937,187 B2 (Appl. 10/461,890; "Method and apparatus for forming a dynamic model to locate position of a satellite receiver"; filed 2003‑06‑13; issued 2005‑08‑30; priority 2000‑11‑17). I must flag up front that I was not able to retrieve a clean, complete "References Cited" (form PTO‑892) list for this patent through the search channel available to me. The search results returned fragmentary citation tables from other patents in the same technical family, plus a handful of citation relationships touching the '187 patent. Per the operating rules, I will not reconstruct claims 2–8/10 verbatim or fabricate a citation list I cannot ground. Everything below is either (a) directly observed in a retrieved source, or (b) explicitly labeled as domain-knowledge inference with its confidence level.

Also note the practical posture: the patent expired November 17, 2020, so any §102 analysis today is retrospective (validity/reexam/litigation context), not an enforcement question.

1. What the record actually shows about this patent's citations

1a. Confirmed / directly observed

Caveat: In Google Patents tables the asterisk and the column layout are ambiguous as to whether a document is a citation by or against the '187 patent. I therefore treat EP 1008862 and EP 0512789 as "citation relationship confirmed, direction only probable" — not as verified prior art on the face of the '187 patent.

1b. Family / internal citations (confirmed by the '187 specification itself)

These are not "prior art" in the §102 sense but are cited on the face of the patent as related applications:

• US 6,734,821 B2 — Ser. No. 10/190,745, filed Jul. 8, 2002 (parent CIP).
• US 6,417,801 B1 — Ser. No. 09/715,860, filed Nov. 17, 2000, issued Jul. 9, 2002 ("Method and apparatus for time-free processing of GPS signals") — the grandparent and the source of the 2000‑11‑17 priority date.

(These are confirmed by the CROSS‑REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS section reproduced in the patent text you provided.)

2. The reference I can most defensibly analyze: EP 1008862 B1

3. Candidate prior art by domain — clearly labeled as inference

Because I could not pull the authoritative PTO‑892 list, the following are the references that the technical content predicts would have been cited during prosecution of a 2003 CIP claiming priority to 2000‑11‑17 in the GPS time‑determination art. Treat every item here as a hypothesis to be verified against the actual PTO‑892, not as a confirmed citation.

1. Krasner / SnapTrack (later Qualcomm) time‑determination line — US 5,812,087; US 5,945,944; US 6,052,081; US 6,104,338 ("Method and apparatus for determining time for GPS receivers"). These are the canonical assisted‑GPS "determine time without reading TOW" references and are the closest conceptual neighbors to the '187's "time tag error" concept.

   • §102 exposure: US 6,104,338 is the most plausible single‑reference attack on claim 1, because it addresses deriving time in a GPS receiver absent satellite TOW data. However, the '187 claim 1 requires (i) a plurality of states and (ii) a dynamic model relating them — a Kalman‑filter‑style dynamic formulation that a pure "time determination" reference does not necessarily disclose. Anticipation: plausible but unproven; §103 combination more likely. Confidence: medium that these were cited; low that any alone anticipates claim 1.

2. Kalman‑filter GPS receiver art (sequential estimators tracking position + clock bias/common‑mode error). The '187 specification itself concedes the first four states are "well known in the art" and identifies the fifth column of the H matrix (pseudorange rate w.r.t. time) and the time‑tag‑error state as the novel aspects (see the '187 text: "the novel aspect of this invention involves the addition of the time‑tag error state"). This is the reason the claims survived inter partes reexamination (concluded May 2012, all claims confirmed without amendment) and were held not invalid at the ITC.

   • §102 exposure to claims 1 and 9: A conventional GPS Kalman filter discloses the dynamic model and plurality of states, but not the time‑tag‑error state (which the spec distinguishes from common‑mode error, ranging to "one minute or more"). Absent that element, no anticipation of claim 1 or 9. My assessment: this is why the reference list, whatever it contains, did not invalidate the claims. Confidence: high on the claim‑construction point (grounded in the patent text); medium on the general prior‑art landscape.

Bottom line on §102: I could not identify, from the sources retrieved, any single reference that discloses all elements of claim 1 or claim 9 (a plurality of states including a time tag error state, plus a dynamic model operative to compute receiver position). The dependent claims (2–8, 10) add limitations I cannot textually verify, so I cannot responsibly opine on their anticipation.

4. What I would need to complete this properly

To produce the reference‑by‑reference table you asked for, I need the authoritative face‑of‑patent citation list, which I could not retrieve here. The reliable sources are:

1. USPTO Patent Public Search / PatentCenter → "References Cited" tab for Appl. 10/461,890 (form PTO‑892), and
2. the inter partes reexamination file (all claims confirmed May 2012), whose "References Cited by Examiner" list is the definitive prior‑art set the Office actually considered.

If you can supply (or let me target) the PTO‑892 for 10/461,890 or the reexam certificate number, I will map each reference to its full citation, publication/filing date, description, and the specific claim(s) it could reasonably be asserted to anticipate under 35 U.S.C. §102 — rather than presenting inferred candidates.

5. Explicit uncertainty register

• Not verified: the complete "References Cited" list for US 6,937,187; the count of citations; claims 2–8 and 10 verbatim.
• Probable but not confirmed: EP 1008862 B1 and EP 0512789 A2 as cited references (direction of relationship ambiguous in the retrieved tables).
• Inference only: the Krasner/SnapTrack and generic Kalman‑filter receiver art as candidate prior art.
• High confidence: the claim 1/9 "time tag error state + dynamic model" limitations, and the fact that the patent's own specification identifies the time‑tag‑error state as the novel element over the admitted prior art — which is consistent with the confirmed‑on‑reexam and ITC "not invalid" outcomes.

I'll ground this analysis in the actual prior art cited on this patent's face, since the fetched page text omitted the citation tables.

Highly relevant material surfaced — the ITC validity record and PTAB petitions identify specific prior art (Peterson, Kaplan, Akopian). Let me pin down the exact references and petition numbers.

Let me pin down the exact identities of the key references (Peterson, Kaplan, Akopian) and the '187 patent's own front-page citations.

Obviousness Analysis — U.S. Patent No. 6,937,187 B2 under 35 U.S.C. § 103

One methodological note first, because it affects everything that follows. The Google Patents page as fetched does not contain a populated "References Cited" table. Its "prior art" content is limited to:

• the keyword tags "time; absolute time; gps; a priori; absolute";
• the "Prior art date 2000‑11‑17" field (which is actually the priority date, i.e., the 09/715,860 filing date — a Google convention, not a § 102 date); and
• family/priority links, principally US 6,417,801 (the '801 patent) as "Priority claimed from."

I therefore grounded this § 103 analysis in (a) the two references actually cited in the family on the face of related patents, and (b) the prior art that was actually litigated and reexamined against this exact patent, which is far richer and is documented in primary sources. Where a reference's disclosure is known to me only through a party's or a tribunal's characterization, I say so. I do not have verbatim text for dependent claims 2–8 and 10 and will not reconstruct them.

1. Legal framework and the threshold § 103 gating issue

The application was filed June 13, 2003, so pre‑AIA § 103(a) governs (Graham v. John Deere; KSR Int'l v. Teleflex, 550 U.S. 398 (2007)). Four determinations control:

(a) The effective filing date is claim- and limitation-specific. The '187 is a CIP of 10/190,745 (now US 6,734,821), itself a CIP of 09/715,860 (now US 6,417,801). Under § 120, the claims get the Nov. 17, 2000 date only for subject matter supported by the parent disclosures. The record establishes that the dynamic-model / time-tag-error-state material is new matter added in the '187: as stated in the ITC record, "'[t]he '187 patent does not disclose the exact states used in its dynamic model; it simply describes variables in a static model … and then discloses that one of them (the 'time tag error') can be used as a state … in the dynamic model (id. at cols. 16‑18)." If the "estimating a plurality of states" / "dynamic model" / "sequential estimator" limitations are only supported by cols. 16–18 and FIGS. 7–10, their effective date is June 13, 2003. That single determination decides whether several of the best references are even prior art.

(b) Common ownership disqualifies the family patents as § 103 art. US 6,417,801 (issued July 9, 2002) and US 6,734,821 (filed July 8, 2002) qualify as prior art, if at all, only under pre‑AIA § 102(e)/(g). Because they were owned by Global Locate, Inc., the same entity as the '187, they fall within the § 103(c) exception and cannot be combined in an obviousness rejection. They are useful only as evidence of the state of the art and, more importantly, as applicant admissions (the '187's Background is a verbatim copy of the '801's).

(c) Claim construction adopted in the litigation (which I use throughout):

(d) Claim structure. Independent claims 1 (method) and 9 (mobile device). Per the ITC record, claim 2 adds states for (i) common mode error and (ii) position; claim 3 adds "updating the plurality of states within the dynamic model using the pseudoranges" and "computing a position … using the dynamic model"; claim 5 was asserted but the Peterson/Kaplan ground did not reach it.

Level of ordinary skill: a bachelor's degree in EE/aerospace or equivalent plus ~2–5 years in GNSS receiver design, including working familiarity with least-squares and Kalman-filter position solutions and assisted-GPS architectures.

2. The prior art actually in the record

Important caveat on the Krasner row: these references are cited on the family's front pages, and I know them to be assisted-GPS/Kalman-tracking art, but I have not re-read them in this session and will not attribute specific passages to them.

3. Combination A — Peterson in view of Kaplan (the primary § 103 ground)

Where each element comes from:

Motivation to combine (the KSR rationales):

1. Peterson itself points to the combination. Peterson expressly names the Kalman filter as the planned extension of its own receiver ("expand the code to include a Kalman filter"), making the combination the inventor's own design trajectory, not a hindsight reconstruction.
2. Use of a known technique to improve a similar device in the same way (KSR, rationale C). Kaplan teaches that Kalman filtering produces "smoothed" and "optimum" PVT estimates where static least squares is "corrupted by noise" — precisely the deficiency of a single-epoch static solve in an urban-canyon/weak-signal environment.
3. "Obvious to try" / avoiding redesign cost. As the petition framed it, it "would have been obvious to use the same states disclosed in Peterson's static model in the dynamic model formed when combining Peterson with Kaplan — both to avoid having to create a whole new set of states and at least as obvious to try."
4. No new hardware. The '187 itself concedes the point of novelty is narrow: "The first four states are well known in the art. The novel aspect of this invention involves the addition of the time tag error state."

Why this ground is genuinely contestable — and lost below. The patent owner's rebuttal, which the ALJ credited (calling Broadcom's argument "persuasive"), is that Peterson's Kalman-filter mention is contextually about improving the local oscillator's accuracy so the receiver can "coast" through outages (Peterson's surrounding discussion is about Cesium oscillators, 2-satellite 2‑D fixes, and tracking-state propagation), not about converting Peterson's static position equation into a dynamic model. Kaplan, in turn, supplies generic textbook Kalman machinery but, on this reading, no motivation to model a time tag error as a filter state. That is a legitimate "no motivation / teaching away" defense and, importantly, it is consistent with the PTO's own conduct — see § 6 below.

Assessment: Peterson + Kaplan is the most natural § 103 combination for claims 1, 2, 3 and 9, and under KSR it is a strong prima facie case. But it is not a clean case, because the entire motivation arguably rests on a single sentence in Peterson whose context cuts the other way.

4. Combination B — Akopian '694 (the strongest ground; anticipation, and a fortiori obviousness)

Akopian is the most dangerous reference, because it is closer on the disputed limitation than Peterson is:

• t_u meets the agreed construction of "time tag error" exactly. The '187 defines time tag error as (local time − absolute time) distinct from common mode error; Akopian defines t_u as "an offset of the receiver clock from GPS system time," and separately models τ (GPS time at arrival) to absorb the hardware/antenna-delay (i.e., common-mode) contributions. As found in the ID: "Because Akopian discloses each limitation of claims 1, 3, and 9, I find that these claims are anticipated by Akopian" — with claims 3 and 5 likewise, and claim 2 the sole survivor.
• Akopian expressly discloses the dynamic model. Its "low dynamics model" Φ_L predicts the state vector from x_L(k−1) to x_L(k) — a sequential estimator in the claim-9 sense — and it expressly offers the Kalman filter as the solution method.
• § 103 variant if anticipation fails on the "separate from common mode error" nuance: the applicant's own Background supplies the missing piece — "traditional GPS receivers treat the common mode error as an unknown that must be solved for, along with position" (applicant-admitted prior art, usable against claim 2 without any other reference) and the background also concedes the general Kalman framework. Akopian + AAPA + Kaplan therefore renders claim 2 obvious even though the ID ultimately rejected claim 2 (the ALJ found the petitioner's own cited evidence undercut its motivation theory — a factual, not legal, loss).
• Availability is the whole ballgame. EP 1248117A2 published Oct. 9, 2002 — after the '801's Nov. 17, 2000 date but before the '187's June 13, 2003 filing. It is therefore § 102(a)/(e) art only if the claims (or at least the "dynamic model"/"time tag error state" limitations) are not entitled to the Nov. 17, 2000 parent date. Given that the dynamic-model disclosure is new matter at cols. 16–18, that is a very real exposure. Note also that the family's European counterpart (EP 1634098 / EP 2187230B1, whose figures reproduce the '187's FIGS. 4, 7 and 9) lists "US 6417801 B" and "EP 1248117 A" among "Patent documents cited in the description" — the patentee itself treated Akopian as relevant prior art.

Assessment: If Akopian is prior art, claims 1, 3, 5 and 9 fail under § 102, and a fortiori under § 103 (Peterson alone would make up any gap on the "pseudorange equations," which the examiner and the Board already held equivalent to the '801/'187 equations). Claim 2 is the only claim that survives on this record, and only for the narrow reason that Akopian's t_u was found not to be expressly separate from a common-mode state.

5. Combination C — Peterson + Kaplan + Krasner/Snaptrack (+ Syrjarinne)

This combination is aimed at claim 9 (a mobile device with a receiver and a sequential estimator) and at the client/server split described in the '187's FIG. 1/FIG. 8.

• Krasner/Snaptrack (US 5,841,396; 5,945,944; 6,052,081; 6,064,336; 6,133,874; 6,150,980) supplies the mobile-receiver-plus-communication-link architecture with Kalman tracking and basestation-derived time aiding. Motivation: the '187's own Background describes exactly this aided-GPS architecture as known art, so the combination is a mere rearrangement of known elements with predictable results (KSR rationale A).
• Syrjarinne (2000) independently teaches recovering time by "fusion of inaccurate network timing assistance with GPS measurements" — i.e., it teaches tolerating an imprecise local time reference rather than requiring 1–10 ms accuracy, which directly rebuts any "teaching away" argument built on the '187's stated need for 10 ms absolute time accuracy.
• This ground's weakness is the same as Combination A's: the motivation to convert a static model into a state-space model still has to be supplied, and Kaplan alone is generic.

6. What the record tells us about how this actually played out

This is unusual for a § 103 analysis and worth stating explicitly, because it calibrates confidence:

1. Reexamination: Peterson was not merely "considered" — "it was relied on by the examiner to reject several claims," and the requestor "specifically proposed" the Peterson + Kalman-filter modification. The examiner nonetheless did not find the modification obvious, and after a declaration from Dr. Braasch (credited as a "disinterested witness," noting Peterson's Kalman remark does not suggest estimating a time tag error) the claims were allowed. Broadcom relied on that reexamination certificate in later litigation.
2. ITC 337‑TA‑1119: the ALJ found claims 1, 3, 5 and 9 anticipated by Akopian '694 but rejected the Peterson + Kaplan obviousness ground and rejected the Akopian-based challenge to claim 2. The Commission's final no-violation determination ultimately rested on the '583 and '752 patents, so the '187 findings did not reach the Federal Circuit (No. 20‑2008, aff'd Mar. 9, 2022).
3. Federal Circuit 2009‑1262 (SiRF): affirmed the ITC's findings including rejection of the § 101 challenge to the '187's method claims — a § 101 holding only; it says nothing about § 103.

Net effect: the PTO and the ITC each independently declined to hold claims 1–3/9 obvious over Peterson + Kaplan, but the ITC did hold claims 1, 3, 5 and 9 anticipated by Akopian. That is the correct hierarchy to carry forward.

7. Secondary considerations and nexus

Broadcom's objective-indicia case — commercial success in GPS receivers, industry skepticism that fast TTFF without absolute time was achievable (Dr. Goldberg: members of the GNSS industry "felt it was not possible"), long-felt need, unexpected results — has real evidentiary support in the ITC record. But the petitioner's nexus attack is strong: the claimed benefit ("computing position without absolute time") is exactly what Peterson (1995), the '801 specification (Nov. 2000) and Akopian '694 (Apr. 2001) each already addressed, so under In re Huai-Hung Kao, 639 F.3d 1057, 1068 (Fed. Cir. 2011), the indicia may be presumed to flow from the unclaimed advance rather than from the claimed "time tag error state in a dynamic model." Note also that the ID expressly stated it was persuaded by this nexus problem for the Peterson ground. The strength of the secondary-considerations defense therefore rises or falls with the priority-date question in § 1(a).

8. Conclusions and confidence

The single most important variable is the priority date. If the "dynamic model"/"time tag error state" limitations are entitled to Nov. 17, 2000, Akopian (Apr. 6, 2001 / published Oct. 9, 2002) drops out entirely and the patent's validity rests on the narrow, contested Peterson + Kaplan motivation question — which the PTO and the ITC both resolved in the patent owner's favor. If those limitations are only entitled to June 13, 2003, Akopian is squarely prior art and claims 1, 3, 5 and 9 are in serious jeopardy.

Items I could not verify (stated rather than assumed)

• The full U.S. patent number of "Akopian '694" (the record's shorthand; I confirmed only the EP 1248117A2/B1 counterpart, its Apr. 6, 2001 US priority via 09/828,594, and the Nokia/Akopian/Syrjarinne attribution).
• The verbatim text of claims 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 10.
• The exact procedural posture of the two ptacts.uspto.gov documents I quote (they read as ITC 337‑TA‑1119 submissions — briefs and an initial determination — reproducing exhibits JX‑0003, CX‑0011C, RX‑0004C, RX‑0197; I have cited them as records of the parties' and tribunal's contentions, not as independent readings of Peterson).
• A flagged inconsistency with the earlier-generated sections: one quoted passage ("reexamination certificate cancelled claims 1‑27, 33, and 35 and confirmed claims 28‑32 and 34") describes a patent with 35+ claims and therefore cannot be the '187 (10 claims). It belongs to a different patent in the same brief; the earlier section's statement that the '187's reexamination confirmed all claims is otherwise consistent with the record I retrieved.

Sources relied on: ION‑GPS‑95 Peterson citation and the 337‑TA‑602 prior-art exhibit list (Heppe/Pratt reports) at patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/.../US8643541.pdf; ITC Pub. 4137 (337‑TA‑602) at usitc.gov/intellectual_property/documents/pub4137.pdf; 337‑TA‑1119 briefs/ID as reproduced in the PTAB petition record at ptacts.uspto.gov/ptacts/public-informations/petitions/1525805/ and /1525844/; EP 1248117A2/B1 (patents.google.com/patent/EP1248117A2/en, patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/.../EP1248117B1.pdf); EP 2187230B1 (patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/.../EP2187230B1.pdf); USPTO OG entry for US 6,937,187 (webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/.../us06937187-20050830.html).