Acacia Research entity Atlas Global Technologies Wi-Fi patent challenged

On February 28, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,153,886, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘886 patent is generally directed to an uplink transmission scheme for acknowledgements to reduce or eliminate redundant acknowledgements and is asserted against a Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ax. The patent has been asserted against ASUS, Arcadyan, Acer, D-Link, OnePlus, and Zyxel.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

Competitive Access Systems multilink communications patent challenged

On March 1, 2023, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,868,908, owned by Competitive Access Systems, an NPE. The ’908 patent relates to multilink communications between a client and server and is currently being asserted against Oracle's Linux offering.

View district court litigations by Competitive Access Systems. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen, Ellyar Barazesh, and Roshan Mansinghani in this proceeding.

Velos Media video codec patent challenged

On February 28, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,497,469, owned and asserted by Velos Media, an NPE. The ‘469 patent relates to a device for indicating information about a leading picture for decoding images at a random access point.

Unified is represented by Drew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks.

Traxcell navigation patent challenged

On February 24, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,820,147, owned and asserted by Traxcell Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The ‘147 patent is generally directed to providing navigation information to a wireless mobile communications device while also allowing the user to set preference flags to prevent tracking of the wireless mobile communications device. Traxcell has asserted the ‘147 patent in 23 cases against companies such as Google, DoorDash, Uber, T-Mobile, and others.

View district court litigations by Traxcell. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and T.J. Murphy.

Hilco Global entity Bell Semiconductor integrated circuit patent reexam granted

On February 17, 2023, less than two months 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 7,007,259, owned and asserted by Bell Semiconductor LLC, an NPE and entity of Hilco Global. The ‘259 patent relates to a method of prioritizing dummy fill in a semiconductor chip. The patent has been asserted in over 25 litigations against semiconductor companies like NXP, AMD, Micron, Qualcomm, Infineon, Western Digital, Lattice Semiconductor, and others.

View district court litigations by Bell Semiconductor. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Hong Shi of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015183.