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Slack Technologies, LLC et al. v. Wrinkl, Inc. - IPR2024-01490

Explore the PTAB proceeding IPR2024-01490 filed by Slack Technologies, LLC et al. against Wrinkl, Inc. on Sep 26, 2024. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Case Details

Proceeding Number
IPR2024-01490
Filing Date
Sep 26, 2024
Petitioner
Slack Technologies, LLC et al.
Respondent
Wrinkl, Inc.
Status
Trial Instituted
Respondent Application Number
18535572
Respondent Tech Center
2400
Respondent Patent Number
11973731
Institution Decision Date
Apr 21, 2025

Decision Documents New

Decision documents related to this case provide insights into the outcomes of proceedings. These documents are crucial for understanding the legal determinations and implications for the parties involved.

Document NameFiling DateCategoryFiling Party

Termination Decision: Post-DI dismissal

Nov 20, 2025PAPERBOARD

Institution Decision: DECISION Granting Institution of Inter Partes Review 35 U.S.C. § 314

Apr 21, 2025PAPERBOARD

Counsels Involved New

Details of counsels involved in proceeding number IPR2024-01490.

TypeName
Petitioner CounselPerez, Robert
Respondent CounselKatz, Stevenet al

Proceeding Documents

The table below shows documents filed in the case, listing each document name, filing date, document type, and filing party. Tracking these filings indicates the activity of the parties involved in the case, and the types of documents filed can provide insights into the legal strategies being employed.

Document NameFiling DateCategoryFiling Party

Alert me when new update on this case

Termination Decision: Post-DI dismissal

Nov 20, 2025PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Notice of Deposition of Dr. Andrew Cockburn

Nov 18, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Petitioners' Reply to Patent Owner Response for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 11,973,731

Nov 5, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Reply Declaration of Andrew Cockburn For Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 11,973,731

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Transcript of Deposition of Kevin C. Almeroth, October 28, 2025

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

mIRC User Guide (Sept. 9, 2016), available at https://web.archive.org/web/20160909085546/ https://www.mirc.com/help/mirc.pdf#expand

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Antony Fountain, Jeremy Huxtable, Paula Ferguson & Dan Heller, Motif Programming Manual, Open Source Edition, Vol. 6A (Dec. 2001), available at https://www.ist.co.uk/motif/download/6A/6A_book.pdf

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

John E. Grayson, Python and Tkinter Programming 16, 154–55, 365–66 (2000).

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ben Shneiderman, The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (Dep’t of Computer Sci., Human-Computer Interaction Lab & Inst. for Sys. Rsch., Univ. of Md., College Park, 1996), available at https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VL.1996.545307

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering, ch. 5 (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. 1994), available at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2821575

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

New Ways to Interact with Your Tablet PC (Aug. 25, 2004), available at https://web.archive.org/web/20051221130655/ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/ evaluation/overviews/pcinteract.mspx

Nov 5, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioners' Updated Exhibit List

Nov 5, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners’ Amended Notice of Deposition of Kevin C. Almeroth, Ph.D. Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.53

Oct 24, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Joint Stipulation to Modify Due Dates 2-3

Oct 24, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Related Matters Update

Sep 26, 2025EXHIBITBOARD

Petitioner’s Notice of Deposition of Kevin C. Almeroth, Ph.D. Pursuant to 37 C.F.R § 42.53

Sep 26, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owners Updated Mandatory Notices

Sep 22, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

General Order: Related Matters Updates

Sep 20, 2025PAPERBOARD

Petitioners’ Objections Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(b)(1)

Aug 29, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

TechCrunch Article “Slack launches threaded messaging to take conversations off to the side”

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Hubert Florin, Threads in Slack A: Long Design Journey (Part 1 of 2), Slack Design

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

CV of Kevin C. Almeroth, Ph.D.

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Wrinkl Wins MediaPost’s 2018 Appy Award, May 16, 2018

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

EXHIBIT A, Initial Claim Chart Relating the Accused Product to the Asserted Claims of U.S. Patent No. 11,973,731

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Response to Non-Final Office Action dated March 9, 2020, filed June 8, 2020 in US Patent Application No. 16/399,349

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Expert Declaration of Kevin C. Almeroth, Ph.D.

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

XChat: Channel List (nexlab.azzurra.org)

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Davey Alba, Slack's New Threaded Messages Tame Your Meandering Chats, WIRED, January 18, 2017

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

U.S. Patent No. 11,539,649

Aug 22, 2025EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner Response

Aug 22, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Joint Stipulation to Modify Due Dates 1-3

Jun 27, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Panel Change Order

Jun 26, 2025PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Reply In Support of Motion to Terminate

Jun 20, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Petitioner’s Opposition to Patent Owner’s Motion to Terminate

Jun 13, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Order Conduct of the Proceeding

Jun 6, 2025PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Motion to Terminate

Jun 6, 2025PAPERPATENT OWNER

Unopposed Motion for Christopher Kao to Appear Pro Hac Vice

May 30, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Unopposed Motion for Brock S. Weber to Appear Pro Hac Vice

May 30, 2025PAPERPETITIONER

Declaration of Christopher Kao in Support of Petitioners’ Unopposed Motion for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Christopher Kao

May 30, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Brock S. Weber in Support of Petitioners’ Unopposed Motion for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Brock S. Weber

May 30, 2025EXHIBITPETITIONER

Institution Decision: DECISION Granting Institution of Inter Partes Review 35 U.S.C. § 314

Apr 21, 2025PAPERBOARD

Order: SCHEDULING ORDER

Apr 21, 2025PAPERBOARD

Notice : Mandatory Notice

Nov 12, 2024PAPERPATENT OWNER

Notice : Power of Attorney

Nov 12, 2024PAPERPATENT OWNER

NOTICE OF FILING DATE ACCORDED TO PETITION AND TIME FOR FILING PATENT OWNER PRELIMINARY RESPONSE

Oct 23, 2024PAPERBOARD

Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 11,973,731

Sep 26, 2024PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners' Power of Attorney

Sep 26, 2024PAPERPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 11,973,731 to Cohen

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

File History for Application No. 18/535,572 (Part 1 of 2)

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

File History for Application No. 18/535,572 (Part 2 of 2)

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Andrew Cockburn

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Curriculum Vitae of Andrew Cockburn

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,630,944 (“Kakuta”)

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 7,426,540 (“Matsumoto”)

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2013/0069969 (“Chang”)

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Return of Service in Related Action

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Complaint in Related Action

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Scheduling Order in Related Action

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Provisional Application No. 62/253,229

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

John E. Grayson, Python and Tkinter Programming, (2000)

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Apple, Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface (1987)

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Empirical Evidence of Information Overload Constraining Chat Channel Comm.

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Making Contact: Getting the Group Communicating with Groupware

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

What Americans Like About Being Online

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioners’ Reasons for Parallel Petitions and Petition Ranking

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER

’731 Patent Claim Elements

Sep 26, 2024EXHIBITPETITIONER