H2 Intellect geofencing patent challenge instituted

On August 5, 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 8,977,247, owned and asserted by H2 Intellect LLC, an NPE. The ‘247 patent generally relates to a system for delivering sponsored content to registered application programs based on users' geographic locations. It has been asserted against IBM, The Home Depot, and Amazon.

View district court litigations by H2 Intellect. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Jason Wejnert, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015376

InterDigital video codec patent challenge instituted

On August 7, 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 10,805,610, owned by InterDigital VC Holdings. The '610 patent relates to coding groups of pixels within blocks. It has been asserted against The Walt Disney Company.

View district court litigations by InterDigital. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen, Jessica L.A. Marks, and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015388

Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, Wi-Fi patent challenged

On July 28, 2025, continuing in the ongoing efforts in the new SEP Wi-Fi Zone, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against 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 currently against T-Mobile and Sprint on products that are wireless access points configured to support 802.11ax.

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

Malikie MPEG-DASH related patent challenged

On July 28, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,392,598, owned and asserted by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The '598 patent is generally directed to streaming media content to user devices, and allowing the user devices to control the format of the media downloaded based on conditions such as available bandwidth. Although not declared to any video codec standard, this patent is relevant to MPEG-DASH.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Dagim Tilahun and Jonathan Bowser at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

DynaIP entity WirelessWerx IP geofencing patent challenged

On July 22, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,323,982, owned by WirelessWerx IP LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals LLC entity. The ‘982 patent directed to tracking and managing wireless devices using geofencing techniques. It is currently asserted against Verizon, Zebra Technologies, Audi, Tesla, Hyundai, among others.

View district court litigations by WirelessWerx. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jason Wejnert and Andrea Shoffstall, in this proceeding.