Mesa Digital smartphone patent found invalid

On June 23, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) issued an Advisory Action in the reexamination filing of U.S. Patent 9,031,537, owned and asserted by Mesa Digital LLC, an NPE and entity associated with Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC (d/b/a OL PATENTS). The Examiner maintained the rejections of all challenged claims of the ‘537 patent. The ‘537 patent is directed to an electronic wireless handheld multimedia device that is capable of bidirectional communication with a remote resource for electronic materials over cellular, wireless LAN and Bluetooth networks, after accepting a passcode by a user, along with a touch sensitive display screen. It has been asserted against over 75 defendants, including Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Apple, HTC, LG, Gen Mobile, Nuu, and BLU Products.

View district court litigations by Mesa Digital. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jason Wejnert and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019952

Atlas Global Wi-Fi patent challenge granted

On June 22, 2026, after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims (1-20) of U.S. Patent 10,020,919, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘919 patent generally relates to sounding operations for identifying channel conditions in a wireless network based on Wi-Fi transmissions exchanged between an access point and wireless stations in the network. The patent is currently being asserted against HPE and Walmart, but has been asserted against several companies in the past whose products comply with the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016094

$2,000 awarded for Gaea data storage patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Kumar and Josh Beck, who split $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 12,265,715, owned by Gaea LLC, an NPE. The ‘715 patent relates to a data storage device—especially an SSD—that uses configurable, policy-based handling of data rather than fixed manufacturer-set behavior. It has been asserted against Samsung and Meta.

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 SUBMISSIONS

• US 9069703

• US 10289547

• Willow: A User-Programmable SSD (“Willow”)

Adeia Technologies patent validity challenges coming soon

The team at Unified is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against patents owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. Unified Patents, the top requester of ex parte reexaminations in recent years, will likely challenge its validity. The patents are generally related to personalized content search and presentation. For more details contact info@unifiedpatents.com.

UBQS-IP patent validity challenge coming soon

The team at Unified is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against a patent owned by UBQS-IP LLC, an NPE and entity of Pueblo Nuevo LLC. Unified Patents, the top requester of ex parte reexaminations in recent years, will likely challenge its validity. The patent is generally related to a decentralized system allowing multiple users to edit the same document. UBQS-IP has sued Egnyte, Atlassian, Notion Labs, and Dropbox. For more details contact info@unifiedpatents.com.