PacSec3 '564 reexamination successfully challenged

On September 23, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,047,564, owned by PacSec3, an NPE. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member. NACAR IP was also formed in early 2020 with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), a patent monetization company, identified as its managing member. The ‘564 patent had been asserted against F5 Networks, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Watchguard Technologies.

View district court litigation by PacSec3. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014818.

Torchlight Technologies patent challenged

On September 22, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 11,208,029, owned and asserted by Torchlight Technologies LLC, an NPE. The '029 patent is directed to a headlight system that increases light in a direction of road curvature. Torchlight has asserted the patent against several auto companies including Audi, Daimler, Mercedes-Benz USA, Porsche, Volkswagen, and GM.

View district court litigations by Torchlight Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

IP Edge entity, Sunflower Licensing, patent challenged

On September 16, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,398,005, owned and asserted by Sunflower Licensing, LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘005 patent relates generally to video recording systems that record digitally encoded video sequences onto disc media such as recordable digital video discs, hard drives and magneto optical discs. This patent is being asserted against GoPro, Ricoh Imaging, NGL Energy, Orsted North America, Central Security Group, ADT, and others. This filing is part of Unified’s continued efforts in the SEP Video Codec Zone.

View district court litigations by Sunflower Licensing. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Sound View '860 patent successfully invalidated

On September 16, 2022, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, canceling claims 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 18 of U.S. Patent 8,135,860, owned by Sound View Innovations, LLC. The ‘860 patent relates to data processing that transforms web content into a format suitable for display by a client device and was previously asserted against Facebook.

View district court litigations by Sound View. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014713.

IP Edge entity, Diatek Licensing, patent likely invalid

On September 15, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,079,752, owned by NPE and IP Edge entity, Diatek Licensing LLC. The ‘752 patent is generally directed to providing playback control functions (e.g., fast-forward, rewind, etc.) for digital video streaming devices. The patent is relevant to the MPEG standard and has been asserted against several streaming companies such as AccuWeather, Fox Broadcasting Company, Home Box Office (HBO), MLB Advanced Media, Redbox, and Roku.

View district court litigations by Diatek Licensing. To read this petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Cono Carrano, Ryan Stronczer, and Sohrab Hajarian of Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jordan Rossen.