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On April 18, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,766,801, owned and asserted by AutoNavigare, LLC. The ‘801 patent relates to controlling applications on a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, using an in-vehicle control system. It has been asserted against Toyota, GM, and Ford.
View district court litigations by AutoNavigare. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.
On April 14, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 6,813,742, owned and asserted by TurboCode LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘742 patent generally relates to a broadband processor for wireless communications focused on turbo code decoding. It has been asserted against 35 entities, including Itron, Acer, Hitachi, Siemens, T-Mobile, AT&T, HTC, Dell, and Huawei.
View district court litigations by TurboCode. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Jenn Bisk.
On April 14, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,290,153, owned and asserted by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The ‘153 patent relates to device discovery methods and systems for controlling access of a communication device to an on-board vehicle network. It has been asserted against GM, Toyota, and Ford.
View district court litigations by AutoConnect. Unified is represented by Steve Shipe of Barnes & Thornburg, and by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Jenn Bisk, in this proceeding.
On April 3, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,135,418, owned and asserted by Congruent Media Resourcing LLC, an NPE. The ‘418 patent generally relates to a method of operating secure applications on an enterprise mobile device. It has been asserted against Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, PreEmptive Solutions, and Trend Micro Inc.
View district court litigations by Congruent Media. Unified is represented by Ellyar Barazesh at Baker Botts, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Jenn Bisk, and Andrea Shoffstall.
On March 10, 2026, five 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 11,284,475, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc.. The ‘475 patent is generally related to setting a Basic Service Set (BSS) color in a responsive Wi-Fi Physical Layer Protocol Data Units (PPDU) when a received PPDU does or does not include a trigger frame that indicates the BSS color. The '475 patent has not been asserted, but it is related to patents being used in litigation.
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 Vinu Raj, in these proceedings.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015943
