Another Malikie Wi-Fi patent challenged

On June 16, 2025, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,315,747, another patent owned and asserted by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of New PP Licensing LLC. The ‘747 patent, formerly assigned to Blackberry Ltd., is generally directed to providing availability data in a messaging environment. It has been asserted against technology that sends availability data over Wi-Fi and also cellular networks developed by Match Group, Inc. Malikie Innovations has filed several other litigations funded by Key Patent Innovations Limited against networking communications, apps, and Wi-Fi devices.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Ellyar Barazesh with Baker Botts, and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and T.J. Murphy, in this proceeding.

$14,000 awarded for OptiMorphix video optimization patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $14,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by OptiMorphix, Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various video optimization technologies. The patents have been asserted against Fortinet, Meta, Akamai Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, and Brightcove.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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 8230105 - Optimizing Media Data Transmission

Winners - Mani Manikandan, Dinesh Swami & Tanya Chauhan

Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 20090185619; US 8428148

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US 8621061 - Adaptive Bitrate Management

Winners - Tanya Chauhan, Ritu Tyagi & Andrei Gilya

Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 20040240390; US 20080259834

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US 8769141 - Streaming Media Optimization

Winners - Colin LaRose & Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 8428148

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US 9191664 - Optimal Session Bitrate Allocation

Winners - Tanya Chauhan & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 9544602; US 8606966

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US 9621896 - Quality-Aware Video Optimization

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Mani Manikandan

Winning Submissions: EP 1841237; US 20110274162

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US 9894361 - Framework for Quality-Aware Video Optimization

Winning Submissions: US 8885705; US 7876257; US 5909250

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US 10123015 - Intermediary Video Optimizer

Winners - Suman Sharma & Andrei Gilya

Winning Submissions: US 8548045; US 9152875; US 8588297

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US 10412388 - Quantization Parameter Adjustment

Winners - Dinesh Swami, Mani Manikandan & Nikko Quevada

Winning Submissions: US 8331438; US 8027384; US 5978029

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Malikie Wi-Fi patent challenged

On June 13, 2025, Unified filed its first ex parte reexamination proceeding in its new SEP Wi-Fi Zone against U.S. Patent 9,313,065, owned and asserted by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘065 patent is generally directed to OFDM transmissions that use a scattered pattern to transmit signals for two antennas at the same time. It has been asserted against "devices compliant with IEEE 802.11 standards" manufactured or sold by Nintendo, Vantiva, Sophos, and D-Link.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and James T. Pawlowski at Rothwell Figg, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

Biogy authentication patent challenge instituted

On May 28, 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 7,669,236, owned and asserted by Biogy, Inc., an NPE. The ‘236 patent is directed to the generation and authentication of a one-time passcode in a multi-factor authentication system. It had been asserted against Alberstons Companies, and Microsoft and Okta recently filed DJs of noninfringement against Biogy.

View district court litigations by Biogy. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019953

K.Mizra network patent challenged

On May 15, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,782,282, owned and asserted by K.Mizra LLC. The ‘282 patent relates to communications in a network management system. K.Mizra, an apparently funded entity that has brought suit on at least 35 patents worldwide, has asserted the ‘282 patent against Ciena Corporation.

View district court litigations by K.Mizra. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.