IPVal entity Artax navigation patent found invalid

On November 5, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all challenged claims (1-4) of U.S. Patent 8,169,343, owned by Artax LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Valuation Partners, LLC. The ’343 patent relates to advancements in navigational technology focusing on integrating both spatial and non-spatial information for mobile computing devices, such as laptops and smartphones. It has been asserted against Verizon, Mix Telematics, Samsara, and TomTom.

View district court litigations by Artax. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019759

AiPi entity, Gatekeeper Solutions, email filtering patent found invalid

On October 2, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,032,038, owned and asserted by Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc., an NPE and entity of AiPi Solutions. The ‘038 patent relates to systems and methods for alerting a user of conflicting recipients when sending electronic communications. It has been asserted several times, but most recently against Darktrace, Forcepoint, and Trellix.

View district court litigations by Gatekeeper Solutions. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019719

IP Investments Group entity, DataCloud Technologies, networking patent found invalid

On September 24, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,370,457, owned by DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ’457 patent relates to network communication through a virtual domain. It had been asserted in over 20 district court litigations, including against SonicWall, Zscaler, and Palo Alto Networks.

View district court litigations by DataCloud Technologies. Unified was represented by Stephen Cortiaus and Natalie Swider of Slater Matsil and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019739

Fitistics fitness tracking patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On April 18, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 11,185,738, owned and asserted by Fitistics, LLC, an NPE. The ‘738 patent is generally directed to tracking exercise using a handheld device to obtain data from an exercise machine or body monitoring device. The patent had been asserted against Huawei and Fossil.

View district court litigations by Fitistics. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Kelly Hughes.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015241

Velos HEVC/H264 video codec patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On March 18, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 10,390,013, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '013 patent generally relates to encoding syntax elements that indicate tile information into a slice header. Velos Media patents have been identified as part of the Avanci Video patent pool, and Avanci asserts its pool covers AV1, H.265 (HEVC), H.266 (VVC), MPEG-DASH, and VP9 technologies.

Unified was represented by in-house counsel Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015239.