OptiMorphix firewall patent challenge instituted

On April 19, 2024, less than two months 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 7,586,871, owned by OptiMorphix, Inc. The ‘871 patent relates to providing services in a data communications system. It has been asserted against Amazon, Broadcom, Cisco, F5, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware.

View district court litigations by OptiMorphix. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Kelly Hughes.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019427

Another GEVC HEVC patent revoked in EPO

On April 18, 2024, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 3343781 B1, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The patent relates to context-adaptive binary entropy coding of video data. The EP‘781 patent is related to patents that have been deemed essential to the Access Advance patent pool. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

$4,000 awarded for S3G Technologies software modifying patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by S3G Technology LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to a computerized system for efficiently modifying remote software. The patents have been asserted against over 25 companies and most recently against The TJX Companies and Luxottica of America.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

US 9940124 - Efficient Modification of Remote Software

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: EP 1980986 A2

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US 10261774 - Efficient Modification of Remote Software

Winners - Dan Lin & Ganesan Rajamanickam

Winning Submissions: US 10585982; US 20080267117

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Emerging Automotive e-Keys patent challenge instituted

On April 15, 2024, less than one 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 11,738,659, owned and asserted by Emerging Automotive LLC. The ‘659 patent generally relates to systems and methods for generating and sharing electronic keys (e-Keys) with users and cloud-based processing systems making e-Keys sharable for enabling shared use of a vehicle. It has been asserted against Toyota and Kia.

View district court litigations by Emerging Automotive. Unified is represented by Drew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019456

Mimzi audio recording patents prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on three patents owned by Mimzi LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to systems for recording audio conversations. The patents have been asserted against Foursquare, TripAdvisor, HTC, Acer, ASUSTek, and Samsung.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 9128981 - Recording and Processing Audio - DOWNLOAD HERE

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 9792361 - Photographic Memory - DOWNLOAD HERE

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 11100163 - Photographic Memory - DOWNLOAD HERE