Fitistics fitness tracking patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On April 18, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 11,185,738, owned and asserted by Fitistics, LLC, an NPE. The ‘738 patent is generally directed to tracking exercise using a handheld device to obtain data from an exercise machine or body monitoring device. The patent had been asserted against Huawei and Fossil.

View district court litigations by Fitistics. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Kelly Hughes.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015241

Unified’s Gatekeeper reexam results in litigation stay

In Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc. v. Darktrace, Inc. (4:2024-cv-00723), the court has ordered that all proceedings are stayed pending the PTO’s final decision in Unified Patents’ ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 9,032,038. The Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s reexamination request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 1-6, 10-28, and 32-45 of the ‘038 patent, owned and asserted by Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc., an NPE and entity of AiPi Solutions. On March 17, 2025, the examiner issued a non-final Office Action against the challenged claims.

The ‘038 patent relates to systems and methods for alerting a user of conflicting recipients when sending electronic communications. It has been asserted several times, but most recently against Darktrace, Forcepoint, and Trellix.

Morris Routing network patent challenged

On April 10, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,058,042, owned and asserted by Morris Routing Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The ‘042 patent relates to path-based data routing in a network. It is currently being asserted against Verizon, Samsung, T-Mobile, and AT&T. 

View district court litigations by Morris Routing. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

Another InfoGation navigation patent challenged

On April 8, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,898,003, owned and asserted by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The '003 patent is generally directed to displaying maps on GPS receivers. It is currently being asserted against Volvo, Nissan, Mazda, and Hyundai. It was also previously asserted against Toyota, Honda, BMW, and Ford.

View district court litigations by InfoGation. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and T.J. Murphy, in this proceeding.

Jeffrey Gross entity, Lattice Technologies, alarm monitoring patent challenge instituted

On April 9, 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 8,098,153, owned and asserted by Lattice Technologies LLC, a Jeffrey Gross entity. The ‘153 patent relates to an emergency response system that cycles through contacts in an order of priority until reaching someone. They have asserted this patent against at least a dozen companies including Alarm.com, Alert360, Amazon, Comcast, and Vivint.

View district court litigations by Lattice Technologies. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Andrea Shoffstall.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019870