Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted

On August 8, 2025, less than two 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 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.

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

Two Wilus Wi-Fi patents challenged

On August 29, 2025, Unified filed two ex parte reexamination proceedings against U.S. Patent 10,820,233 and U.S. Patent 10,931,396, owned and asserted by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc.

The '233 patent is generally directed to wireless terminals that receive an A-MPDU (aggregated MAC protocol data unit) that includes a MSDU (MAC service data unit) or A-MSDU (aggregated MSDU) from multiple users and transmits back a block ACK (block acknowledgement) to at least some of those users, where the block ACK has a particular format dictated by the numerous elements of the claims. It has been asserted against Askey Computer Corporation and its routers, which are Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) enabled devices.

The '396 patent is generally directed wireless terminals that receive an A-MPDU (aggregated MAC protocol data unit) with a particular delimiter field that directs the device on the specific format of the response frame to transmit back. Like the '233, the '396 patent has been asserted against Askey and its routers, which are Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) enabled devices. The '396 patent is also related to U.S. Patent 11,664,926, which has been asserted against Samsung, HP Inc., and Askey.

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

DynaIP entity WirelessWerx IP geofencing patent challenge instituted

On August 25, 2025, one month 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 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.

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

Lexidine vehicle camera patent challenged

On August 14, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,609,961, owned and asserted by Lexidine LLC, an NPE. The ‘961 patent relates to integrating a camera into a vehicle light. It is currently being asserted against Ford.

View district court litigations by Lexidine. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.

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