Magnetar/Atlantic IP entity, Croga Innovations, firewall patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On September 10, 2026, PTAB affirmed-in-part and issued new grounds of rejection in Unified’s ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 10,601,780, owned by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The '780 patent relates to a networked computer system that employs a combination of internal and external firewall mechanisms, along with virtualization techniques, to isolate secure LANs from untrusted internet sources. The patent had been asserted against IBM, Fortinet, and others.

View district court litigations by Croga Innovations. Unified was represented by Slater Matsil and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019638

NovaCloud Licensing DASH patent challenged

On September 11, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,949,206 owned and asserted by NovaCloud Licensing LLC, an NPE. The ‘206 patent is directed to streaming video services based on DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP). It has been asserted against Akamai Technologies and others. NovaCloud has been litigating a portfolio of former Ericsson patents since May of 2025.

View district court litigations by NovaCloud. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Patrick King and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

Velos H.265 video codec patent challenge granted

On September 10, 2026, 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 challenged claims 1-2, 6-10, 13-14, and 18-20 of U.S. Patent 12,088,843, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '843 patent is generally directed to selecting the best motion vector to encode or decode a current block of a video frame. It has been asserted in litigation against H.265 compliant devices.

View district court litigations by Velos. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Dagim Tilahun of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016489

Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge granted

On September 8, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 12,150,105, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The '105 patent relates to wireless communication terminals and signaling, and more specifically to signaling information indicating circumstances in which operations based on the  Basic Service Set (BSS) color are not used. This challenge is part of Unified’s Wi-Fi zone and is the seventh filing against Wilus by Unified.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016388

DynaIP entity WirelessWerx IP geofencing patent challenge granted

On September 2, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 19, 28, 42, 53, and 61 of U.S. Patent 7,323,982, owned by WirelessWerx IP LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals LLC entity. The ‘982 patent is directed to tracking and managing wireless devices using geofencing techniques.

View district court litigations by WirelessWerx. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jason Wejnert, in this proceeding. Opposing counsel is Ramey LLP.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016423