Engle Grange's key fob patent affirmed invalid by Federal Circuit

On April 4, 2023, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision, in a summary Rule 36 affirmance, confirmed that U.S. Patent 8,548,645, owned by Engle Grange, LLC, was unpatentable. The ‘645 patent, generally directed towards a two-step key fob authentication system for an automobile, had been asserted in district court litigation against Ford in early 2020.

View district court litigations by Engle Grange. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk, Roshan Mansinghani, and Michelle Aspen.

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Datanet file backup patent challenged

On April 3, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,473,478, owned and asserted by Datanet, LLC. The ‘478 patent is directed to an automatic real-time file management method and apparatus. The patent is currently being asserted against Microsoft and Dropbox.

 View district court litigations by Datanet. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.

IPVal entity Rosen Technologies thermostat patent likely invalid

On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,156,318, owned and asserted by Rosen Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Valuation Partners. The ‘318 patent is directed to a programmable thermostat having virtual buttons that control space conditioning equipment and has been asserted against Resideo Technologies and Lennox International.

View district court litigations by Rosen Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Dominion Harbor entity Liberty Peak Ventures RFID patent held invalid

On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Liberty Peak Ventures LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,066,181 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC, a Dominion Harbor entity, the '181 patent relates to generating an authentication tag for use in contactless transactions and had been asserted against Citigroup.

View district court litigations by Liberty Peak Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen, Roshan Mansinghani, and Ashraf Fawzy.

Virtual Creative Artist media content patent likely invalid

On March 22, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 10,339,576, owned and asserted by Virtual Creative Artist, LLC. The '576 patent is directed towards a process for creating and publishing media content on an electronic exchange. Virtual Creative Artist had asserted the patent against Meta and has asserted two family member patents against Twitter and Google.

View district court litigations by Virtual Creative Artist. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Eric Buresh of Erise IP and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.