First post-sanctions IP Edge entity Communication Advances camera patent challenged

On February 23, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,823,826, owned by Communication Advances LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘826 patent is being asserted against GM in one of IP Edge’s first litigation campaigns after three of the lawyers associated with the NPE were referred for discipline by Delaware Chief Judge Connolly for violating professional conduct rules.

The ‘826 patent is directed to digital cameras and image processing methods for digital cameras where an application is triggered when the subject’s eye-gazing direction meets an eye-gazing criterion. It has been asserted against GM.

View district court litigations by Communication Advances. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk.

IP Edge entity, AdaptFlow, media serving patent reexam granted

On July 17, 2023, less than six 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 10,015,064, owned and asserted by AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The '064 patent generally relates to prefetching content based on an access pattern of a user on a network. The patent is currently being asserted against Roku.

View district court litigations by AdaptFlow. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

IP Edge entity Invincible IP's virtual machine patent invalidated

On January 5, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Invincible IP LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,678,774 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Invincible IP LLC, an IP Edge entity, the '774 patent relates to allowing or denying migration of virtual machines based on the geographic location of the target host. It had been asserted against Citrix Systems, Nutanix, Alibaba Cloud US, DigitalOcean, NetApp, and Skytap in the District of Delaware.

View district court litigations by Invincible IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes, Roshan Mansinghani, and Ashraf Fawzy.

IP Edge entity, Noblewood IP, settles with Unified

On December 19, 2022, the Board issued an order terminating IPR2022-01111 pursuant to a joint settlement request filed by Unified Patents and Noblewood IP LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. U.S. Patent 7,941,553 relates to responding to user requests for multimedia content with a metafile. This patent has been asserted twelve times this year, including against Wolters Kluwer, Viacom, and Everyday Health.

View district court litigations by Noblewood IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

IP Edge sub, Orbit Licensing, communications patent successfully challenged

On November 18, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of claims 1, 4-6, and 9-11 of U.S. Patent 9,578,040, owned and asserted by Orbit Licensing, an IP Edge entity. The '040 patent is generally directed to packet communications, including determining whether a service request is authorized or not. The '040 patent has been asserted 10 times, including against the SPF protocol (an open standard of the IETF) of several companies such as EidosMedia, Red Hat, OnApp, Akamai, Tencent, Limelight Networks, Wowza Media, CodePen, Velocix, and The MathWorks.

View district court litigation by Orbit Licensing. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014897.