Malikie Wi-Fi patent challenged

On July 17, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,395,899, another patent owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘899 patent relates to the negotiation of the prioritization of network management traffic by Wi-Fi stations and access points. This negotiation involves transmitting management frame quality of service (MFQ) policies and requests for changes to MFQ policies between stations and access points. Malikie Innovations has filed several other litigations funded by Key Patent Innovations Limited against networking communications, apps, and Wi-Fi devices.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Stephen Cortiaus and Payam Rashidi of Slater Matsil, and in-house by Jessica L.A. Marks and T.J. Murphy in this proceeding.

Malikie cryptography patent challenged

On July 9, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,372,960, owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘960 patent relates to finite field calculations in cryptography. The patent has been asserted against Core Scientific, Foundry Digital, and MARA Holdings. Malikie Innovations has filed several other litigations funded by Key Patent Innovations Limited against networking communications, apps, and Wi-Fi devices.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Jordan Rossen, Kelly Hughes, and Jenn Bisk in this proceeding.

Malikie video codec patent challenged

On May 2, 2025, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,778,989, another patent owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘989 patent, formerly assigned to Blackberry Ltd., relates to a rolling intra prediction video codec method based on the H.264/AVC/HEVC standards. Malikie Innovations has filed several other litigations funded by Key Patent Innovations Limited against networking communications, apps, and Wi-Fi devices.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Jason Wejnert and Jessica L.A. Marks in this proceeding.

Key Patent Innovations entity, Valtrus Innovations, litigation analysis available

Valtrus Innovations Limited, backed by Irish patent monetization platform Key Patent Innovations, has rapidly developed multiple parallel assertion programs built on large tranches of acquired assets, targeting cloud, data center, storage, and open‑source‑related technology.

The Valtrus campaign is supported by a sophisticated financing structure and an experienced assertion team. It has already generated a dense landscape of district court litigation, IPRs, declaratory judgement and reexamination activity that Unified has analyzed to better inform its members on strategy for dealing with the infringement and licensing demands Valtrus and its affiliates are currently asserting.

In this members-only confidential summary, a draft example of Unified’s invalidity and ex parte reexamination work product for one of the Valtrus patents is included in the report. Members and non-members should reach out to Sasha Sokhis, Head of Client Relations and Business Development at Unified (sasha@unifiedpatents.com), for further insights and discussion.

$4,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

US 9661104 - HTTP Streaming

Winner - Ganesan Rajamanickam

Winning Submissions: US 9628536; US 10432683

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US 10778989 - Rolling Intra Prediction for Image and Video Coding

Winners - Andrei Gilya

Winning Submissions: US 20150117531; US 10244262; US 9819934

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