Fortress Investment entity, DivX, video streaming patent challenged

On September 19, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,611,785, owned and asserted by DivX LLC, an NPE and entity of Fortress Investment Group LLC. The ‘785 patent is generally directed to encoding video at different bit rates and evaluating the quality to provide the lowest bitrate at which the highest quality video can be achieved for a given resolution and frame rate. It has been asserted against Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for their provision of streaming content. The ‘785 patent is relevant to MPEG-DASH and streaming providers generally.

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

Fortress entity DivX video codec patent affirmed invalid by Federal Circuit

On June 24, 2025, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision, in a summary Rule 36 affirmance, confirming that the challenged claims 1 and 10 of U.S. Patent 10,326,987 were unpatentable. Owned by DivX, LLC, an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, this filing was a part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The '987 patent was asserted against Hulu and is directed to encoding alternative streams of video for use in adaptive bitrate streaming.

View district court litigations by DivX. To read the petition and review the case record, view IPR2021-01476 on Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Angela Oliver, Adam Erickson, Debbi McComas, and David McCombs of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Fortress entity, Entropic, broadcast cable patent found invalid

On August 7, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of all the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,210,362, owned and asserted by Entropic Communications, an NPE and Fortress IP subsidiary. The ’362 patent generally relates to a wideband receiver that outputs a selected plurality of television channels to a demodulator. The patent was asserted against Cox, Comcast, and Charter Communications.

View district court litigations by Entropic Communications. Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019255

Fortress IP entity Entropic Communications cable packet transmission patent found invalid in reexam

On November 22, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,228,910, owned by Entropic Communications, LLC, an NPE and a Fortress IP entity. The '910 patent relates to aggregating packets for transmission to a destination node and has been asserted against Comcast, Cox Communications, Charter Communications, and Dish.

View district court litigations by Entropic Communications. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes, Matt Beck, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015242.

Another Fortress entity, Entropic, broadcast cable patent reexam granted

On November 6, 2023, seven weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,210,362, owned and asserted by Entropic Communications, an NPE and Fortress IP subsidiary. The ’362 patent generally relates to a wideband receiver that outputs a selected plurality of television channels to a demodulator. The patent is currently being asserted against Cox, Comcast, and Charter Communications.

View district court litigations by Entropic Communications. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019255

Other Unified challenges against Entropic patents:

Fortress IP entity, Entropic Communications, packet transmission patent reexam granted

Fortress entity, Entropic Communications, broadband patent reexam granted