New AI NPE Campaign — Prior Art Found

Unified’s IP Services using Pearl has successfully identified and charted prior art against a patent owned by the Artificial Intelligence Industry Association Incorporated, an NPE.  These patents generally relate to machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. They have been asserted against Osaro, Topaz Labs, Elementary Robotics, and Geisel Software.

Unified Patents used its first-ever GenAI patent landscape, OPAL for GenAI, to find the patent activity from the Artificial Intelligence Industry Association. OPAL for GenAI, available exclusively to the members of Unified Patents’ new Artificial Intelligence Zone, allows for a new way to identify and value patents, analyze risk, and determine the total top-down patent landscape quickly and easily—and be more prepared and better value the competition and litigations of tomorrow.

$2,000 awarded for FITE Technologies network patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ritu Tyagi, Ekta Aswal, and Dinesh Swami, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 12,028,640, owned and asserted by FITE Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The '640 patent relates to a network of recording studios to share recording sessions in a social media format. It had been asserted against ByteDance Ltd.

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

• US 9578365

• US 9741057

• US 20140379478

• US 9454789

Empire IP entity, Dynamic Data Innovations, E-commerce patent challenge instituted

On September 3, 2025, six 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 9,632,676, asserted by Dynamic Data Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. The ‘676 patent is directed to managing, filtering, and displaying items in a GUI using both the attributes of the item and by analyzing item selections made by a user. It has been asserted against Old Navy, TravisMathew, LLC, and H-E-B, LP.

View U.S. district court litigations by Dynamic Data. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015396

Causam Enterprises power management patent affirmed invalid by Federal Circuit

On September 5, 2025, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s final decision, in a summary Rule 36 affirmance, confirming that the challenged claims (1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13-15, and 17) of U.S. Patent 10,396,592 were unpatentable. The ‘592 patent is owned by Causam Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The ’592 patent relates to active load management systems and has been asserted in district court and the ITC against Ecobee, Resideo, Alarm.com, Xylem, and Itron.

View district court litigations by Causam Enterprises. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, and Michelle Aspen. Laura Vu at Haynes and Boone handled the Federal Circuit argument.

$4,000 for Vision Sphere Labs networking patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Vision Sphere Labs LLC, an NPE. The patents are currently asserted against Rubicon Communications, Fortinet, Airties, Bigleaf Networks, Adtran, Snap One, and Teltonika.

The contests will expire on September 30, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

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