Empire IP entity, Dynamic Data Innovations, retail processing patent challenged

On July 19, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,632,676, asserted by Dynamic Data Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. The ‘676 patent is directed to managing, filtering, and displaying items in a GUI using both the attributes of the item and by analyzing item selections made by a user. It has been asserted against Old Navy, TravisMathew, LLC, and H-E-B, LP.

View U.S. district court litigations by Dynamic Data. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

Droplets GUI patent challenge instituted

On July 21, 2025, 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 6,687,745, owned by Droplets, Inc. The ‘745 patent relates to a method and system for delivering interactive links for presenting applications and client-specific information at a client computer from remote sources in a network. It is currently being asserted against several parties, including Walmart, Ford, Home Depot, and AT&T.

View district court litigations by Droplets. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019944

InterDigital video codec patent challenged

On July 16, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against 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.

H2 Intellect geofencing patent challenged

On July 11, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against 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.

Nchain blockchain patent challenged

On July 10, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,032,677, owned by Nchain Holdings Limited, an NPE. The ‘677 patent generally relates to consensus-based electronic ledgers, and in particular to blockchain implementations and technologies.

Unified is represented by Steven Cortiaus at Slater Matsil, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jason Wejnert, in this proceeding.