Malikie HEVC 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.

Congruent Media app security patent challenge granted

On May 7, 2026, 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 all challenged claims of 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, Rapid7, Open Text, and Trend Micro Inc.

View district court litigations by Congruent Media. Unified is represented by Ellyar Barazesh and Will Gaines at Baker Botts, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Jenn Bisk, and Andrea Shoffstall.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016139

OptimNet cloud patent challenge granted

On May 4, 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 claims 1-12 of U.S. Patent 9,112,934, owned and asserted by OptimNet LLC, an NPE. The ‘934 patent generally relates to a content delivery networking method and apparatus that builds a content delivery overlay network for transferring media content to users.

View district court litigations by OptimNet. Unified is represented by James Stein and Anita Bhushan of Lee & Hayes, and by in-house counsel, Jason Wejnert and Alyssa Holtslander.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016096

Innovation Technologies advertisement patent challenged

On April 27, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,125,070, owned and asserted by Innovation Technologies Partners LP, an NPE and entity of MVRE LLC. The ’070 patent relates to a method for distributing an electronic content item for consumption with advertisements. It has been asserted against Hulu.

View district court litigations by Innovation Technologies. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kyla Butler and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

Umbra Tech virtual network patent challenged

On April 27, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,452,192, owned and asserted by Umbra Technologies Ltd. The ’192 patent is generally directed to virtual network systems where a control server sends a ranked list of access point servers to an endpoint. The endpoint device then uses this ranked list to select the access point server to which it will build a tunnel to the network. It has been asserted against Zscaler.

View district court litigations by Umbra Technologies. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.