Acacia

Acacia entity, Monarch, 2nd networking patent challenged

On October 23, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,693,369, owned and asserted by Monarch Networking Solutions, LLC, an Acacia Research Corp. entity.  The ‘369 patent relates to routing data packets with the same destination address using port masks. It has been asserted against Cisco and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking. Unified is represented by Joseph English, Patrick Muldoon, and John Baird at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

Acacia entity, Monarch, networking patent challenged

On September 8, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,451,845, owned and asserted by Monarch Networking Solutions, LLC, an Acacia Research Corp. entity.  The ‘845 patent relates to converting data packets between the IPv4 and IPv6 domains. It has been asserted against Cisco and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

Acacia entity Atlas Global Technologies Wi-Fi patent reexam granted

On March 16, 2023, less than three weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,153,886, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘886 patent is generally directed to an uplink transmission scheme for acknowledgements to reduce or eliminate redundant acknowledgements and is asserted against a Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ax. The patent has been asserted against ASUS, Arcadyan, Acer, D-Link, OnePlus, and Zyxel.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani. To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015201.

Acacia Research entity Atlas Global Technologies Wi-Fi patent challenged

On February 28, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,153,886, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘886 patent is generally directed to an uplink transmission scheme for acknowledgements to reduce or eliminate redundant acknowledgements and is asserted against a Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ax. The patent has been asserted against ASUS, Arcadyan, Acer, D-Link, OnePlus, and Zyxel.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

Acacia entity, Monarch Networking Solutions, patent held invalid

On May 27, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Monarch Networking Solutions LLC holding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,756,507 unpatentable. Owned by Monarch Networking Solutions LLC, an NPE and an Acacia Research entity, the ‘507 patent is related to two-step authentication. The ‘507 patent was asserted against Cisco, Meraki, and Duo Security.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking Solutions. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by John Baird, Patrick McPherson, and Paul Belnap of Duane Morris LLP, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.