Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted

On March 10, 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 the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,284,475, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc.. The ‘475 patent is generally related to setting a Basic Service Set (BSS) color in a responsive Wi-Fi Physical Layer Protocol Data Units (PPDU) when a received PPDU does or does not include a trigger frame that indicates the BSS color. The '475 patent has not been asserted, but it is related to patents being used in litigation.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Vinu Raj, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015943

Another Atlas Global Wi-Fi patent challenged

On March 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,020,919, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘919 patent generally relates to sounding operations for identifying channel conditions in a wireless network based on Wi-Fi transmissions exchanged between an access point and wireless stations in the network. The patent is currently being asserted against HPE, but has been asserted against several companies in the past whose products comply with the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and Jessica L.A. Marks.

Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted

On February 26, 2026, 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 12,166,587, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The ‘587 patent generally related to how to identify padding in Wi-Fi trigger frames. The '587 patent has not been asserted itself, but it is the latest issued patent in a family being used in litigation.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Vinu Raj, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015925

Two AX Wireless Wi-Fi patents challenged

On February 26, 2026, Unified filed two ex parte reexamination proceedings against U.S. Patent 10,917,272 and U.S. Patent 11,777,776, owned by AX Wireless, LLC, an NPE and entity of IdeaHub. Both patents generally relate to header field configurations (e.g., header repetition) in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems (802.11n). The patents have been asserted against Sony, TP Link, Ubiquiti, D-Link, Vantiva, and ASUSTek. These filings are part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in the SEP Wi-Fi Zone.

View district court litigations by AX Wireless. Unified is represented by Stephen Cortiaus at Slater Matsil and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jessica L.A. Marks, in these proceedings.

Acacia entity, Atlas Global, Wi-Fi patent challenged

On February 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,628,310, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘310 patent is directed to the format of HE LTFs (high efficiency long training fields) for various combinations of HE LTF modes and channel bandwidths in Wi-Fi transmissions. The patent is currently being asserted against HPE, but has been asserted against Arcadyan Technology, Dell, and Vantiva in the past.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by Ava Chuang and Stephen Cortiaus of Slater Matsil, and in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk.