On April 3, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling claims 1-3, 5-6, and 8-9 of U.S. Patent 7,193,986, owned and asserted by Arlington Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group. The ‘986 patent is generally directed to communications between a master wireless network device and one or more slave network devices using a medium access protocol such as the MAC protocol. It was asserted against Comcast and T-Mobile on products that are wireless access points configured to support 802.11ax.

View district court litigations by Arlington Technologies. Unified was represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold at Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jason Wejnert, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015412