IP Investments Group entity patent determined to be likely invalid

On July 20, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 6,560,613, owned by DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘613 patent relates generally to disambiguating file types on a computer system. The patent has been asserted against Box, Extreme Networks, F5 Networks, 1&1 Ionos, and Wix.com.

View district court litigations by DataCloud Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Drew Sommer and Kyle Chen of Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander, Jung Hahm, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Arigna Technology Limited patent challenged

On July 20, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination against U.S. Patent 7,397,318. Formerly owned by Mitsubishi Electric Corp, the ‘318 patent is currently owned by Arigna Technology Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited subsidiary, and has been asserted against several auto makers such as Daimler AG, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Nissan, and others.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/019,015, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

AutoBrilliance patent held unpatentable

On July 6, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Autobrilliance, LLC, holding all challenged claims (claims 1, 2, and 4-7) of U.S. Patent 6,792,351 unpatentable. The ‘351 patent, directed to multi-vehicle communication, had been asserted in district court litigation against Toyota.

View AutoBrilliance's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs at Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander, Roshan Mansinghani, Jess Marks, and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding.

Flexiworld Technologies reexamination request granted

On May 11, 2021, 4 weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,346,114, owned by Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. The ‘114 patent relates to transmitting or streaming protected digital content to client devices over the internet. It has been asserted against Roku.

View district court litigations by Flexiworld. Unified is represented by Wilson Sonsini and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and David Seastrunk.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,721, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

WSOU '213 patent challenged

On July 1, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination against U.S. Patent 8,103,213. Formerly owned by the Nokia Corporation, the ‘213 patent is currently owned by WSOU Investments, LLC and has been asserted against NEC in the Western District of Texas.

Unified is represented by Eric Buresh and Chris Schmidt from Erise IP and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,789, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.