Fortress Investment entity, DivX, video streaming patent challenged

On September 19, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,611,785, owned and asserted by DivX LLC, an NPE and entity of Fortress Investment Group LLC. The ‘785 patent is generally directed to encoding video at different bit rates and evaluating the quality to provide the lowest bitrate at which the highest quality video can be achieved for a given resolution and frame rate. It has been asserted against Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for their provision of streaming content. The ‘785 patent is relevant to MPEG-DASH and streaming providers generally.

View district court litigations by DivX. Unified is represented by Jonathan Bowser and Adam Erickson at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenged

On September 23, 2025, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,305,638, owned and asserted by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The claims of the '638 patent are directed to access points configured to transmit a trigger frame with a particular structure to one or more stations to coordinate a multi-user uplink transmission from the station(s). The '638 patent has been asserted by Wilus against Askey, and it is related to patents that have been asserted against Samsung and HP Inc.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by Alexander Stein at Morgan Lewis, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

Two SVV Technology display patents challenged

On September 19, 2025, Unified filed two ex parte reexamination proceedings against U.S. Patent 8,740,397 and U.S. Patent 10,613,306, owned and asserted by SVV Technology Innovations, Inc.

The '397 patent generally relates to a light distribution system for display devices, more specifically drawn to a light guide member including a corrugated surface with transparent optical windows. The ’397 patent is currently asserted against Acer and ASUSTek accusing a large number of their products containing displays (i.e., laptops, tablets), and was previously asserted against Samsung and Micro-Star. The ex parte reexamination request challenges claims 1-3, 5, 7, 9-15, and 17-19 of the ‘397 patent.

The ‘306 patent generally relates to a light distribution system for display devices, more specifically drawn to a light guide member with corresponding structures (e.g., "discrete cavities") formed in a flexible, transparent optical sheet. The '306 patent is currently asserted against Acer and ASUSTek and was previously asserted against Samsung and Micro-Star. The ex parte reexamination request challenges claims 1-2, 4-7, 9-34, and 36-43 of the ‘306 patent.

View district court litigations by SVV Technology Innovations. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Andrea Shoffstall, in these proceedings.

Dialect natural language patent challenge instituted

On September 19, 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 8,015,006, owned and asserted by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘006 patent relates to the use of "context-specific domain agents" for generating a response to a user's spoken query. It is currently asserted against several parties, including Meta, Microsoft, and Google, and was previously asserted against Amazon.

View district court litigations by Dialect. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015338

International Semiconductor Group Wi-Fi 6 patent challenged

On September 19, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,137,063, owned and asserted by the International Semiconductor Group, an NPE. The '063 patent is directed to coordinating transmissions for adjacent access points (APs) that have overlapping coverage areas. The '063 patent is one of over 20 patents divested from Toshiba in April this year and belongs to one of the largest families in that transfer. The '063 patent is also related to an application currently pending before the Office.

View ITC litigations by ISG. Unified is represented by Stephen Cortiaus at Slater Matsil, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.