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On June 9, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,793,336, owned and asserted by Mobile Data Technologies LLC, an NPE. The '336 patent relates to systems for sharing content. The patent has been asserted against Meta Platforms.
View district court litigations by Mobile Data Technologies. Unified is represented by Ryan Stronczer and Cono Carrano of Akin, and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
On June 8, 2023, just under a month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,373,474 owned by Liberty Access Technologies Licensing LLC, an NPE and Empire IP LLC entity. The '474 patent is directed to access control systems for door locks via an application on a portable device. The patent has been asserted against Marriott International and ASSA ABLOY.
View district court litigations by Liberty Access Technologies Licensing. Unified is represented by Duane Morris, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Ashraf Fawzy.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015231.
On June 2, 2023, less than a month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,594,698, owned and asserted by Broadphone LLC. The ‘698 patent generally relates to determining the location of a device based on the relative signal strength for each of a plurality of nearby, identified “antenna stations” and determining whether the device is within the proximity of a “device-specific target location”. The patent has been asserted against Samsung.
View district court litigations by Broadphone. Unified is represented by Jessica Kaiser, Drew Needham, Lindsey Staubach, and Tyler Knox of Arnold & Porter, and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019209.
On June 6, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,015,064, owned and asserted by AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, an NPE. The '064 patent generally relates to prefetching content based on an access pattern of a user on a network. The patent is currently being asserted against Roku.
View district court litigations by AdaptFlow. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015248.
On June 5, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,699,444, owned and asserted by VDPP LLC, an NPE. The '444 patent generally relates to processing image frames from a video stream and generating bridge frames for motion smoothing. The patent has been asserted against Microsoft, Vizio, Lenovo, Roku, Philips, Panasonic, Sharp, and others.
View district court litigations by VDPP. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015245.
