Reexamination

Blue Wave IP entity, Edge Networking, SaaS patent challenge instituted

On July 22, 2025, 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 11,695,823, owned and asserted by Edge Networking Systems, LLC, an NPE and entity of Blue Wave IP. The '823 patent is directed towards programmable network and cloud devices that manage and deploy distributed applications. It is being asserted against Amazon and Microsoft.

View district court litigations by Edge Networking. Unified is represented by John Pienkos and Jennifer Lacroix at Amundsen Davis, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jordan Rossen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019948

H2 Intellect geofencing patent challenge instituted

On August 5, 2025, three weeks 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 8,977,247, owned and asserted by H2 Intellect LLC, an NPE. The ‘247 patent generally relates to a system for delivering sponsored content to registered application programs based on users' geographic locations. It has been asserted against IBM, The Home Depot, and Amazon.

View district court litigations by H2 Intellect. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Jason Wejnert, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015376

Route Guidance Systems vehicle guidance patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On July 18, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 6,917,876, owned by Route Guidance Systems LLC, an NPE. The ’876 patent is directed to route guidance systems for vehicles where the calculated route is transmitted from a central computer to a vehicle over a channel of communication in a short burst and is then closed, so that transmission to the vehicle ceases, unless and until a need for further transmission arises. The patent has been asserted against ExxonMobil, Verizon, MyPizza Technologies, Honda, Salesforce, Grubhub, HERE Global, DoorDash, MapleBear, Waitr, and others.

View district court litigations by Route Guidance Systems. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes, Michelle Aspen, and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015113.

InterDigital video codec patent challenge instituted

On August 7, 2025, three weeks 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 10,805,610, owned by InterDigital VC Holdings. The '610 patent relates to coding groups of pixels within blocks. It has been asserted against The Walt Disney Company.

View district court litigations by InterDigital. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen, Jessica L.A. Marks, and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015388

Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, Wi-Fi patent challenged

On July 28, 2025, continuing in the ongoing efforts in the new SEP Wi-Fi Zone, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,193,986, owned and asserted by Arlington Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group. The ‘986 patent is generally directed to communications between a master wireless network device and one or more slave network devices using a medium access protocol such as the MAC protocol. It was asserted against Comcast and currently against T-Mobile and Sprint on products that are wireless access points configured to support 802.11ax.

View district court litigations by Arlington Technologies. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold at Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.