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

Malikie MPEG-DASH related patent challenge instituted

On August 25, 2025, less than 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 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.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015413

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

Nchain blockchain patent challenge instituted

On August 19, 2025, four 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 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.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015375

Blue Wave IP entity, Edge Networking, SaaS patent challenge instituted

On July 22, 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 11,695,823, owned and asserted by Edge Networking Systems, LLC, an NPE and entity of Blue Wave IP. The '823 patent is directed towards programmable network and cloud devices that manage and deploy distributed applications. It is being asserted against Amazon and Microsoft.

View district court litigations by Edge Networking. Unified is represented by John Pienkos and Jennifer Lacroix at Amundsen Davis, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jordan Rossen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019948