PTAB

HyperX zero-touch networking patent reexam granted

On June 29, 2023, 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 11,522,756, owned and asserted by HyperX Networks, LLC. The ‘756 patent relates to zero-touch provisioning systems and methods, and had been asserted against Ciena.

View district court litigations by HyperX. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

Atlantic IP entity Lionra Technologies cybersecurity patent reexam granted

On June 27, 2023, less than two months 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 claim of U.S. Patent 7,685,436, owned by Lionra Technologies Ltd, an Atlantic IP entity. The ‘436 patent relates to a security processor and has been asserted against Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco.

View district court litigations by Lionra Technologies. Unified is represented by David Tennant of Allen & Overy, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015225

Velos Media video codec patent reexam granted

On June 27, 2023, about a 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 10,390,013, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '013 patent generally relates to encoding syntax elements that indicate tile information into a slice header.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh and Jessica L.A. Marks. To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015239.

Ozmo Licensing Wi-Fi patent likely invalid

On June 20, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 9,264,991, owned and asserted by Ozmo Licensing LLC. The ‘991 patent is generally directed to a wireless hub that integrates wireless networks and has been asserted against HP, Inc, Acer, Dell Technologies, and TCL.

View district court litigations by Ozmo Licensing. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by John Baird and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris, and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

InterDigital video codec patent reexam granted

On June 14, 2023, less than a 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 8,085,845, owned by InterDigital VC Holdings. The '845 patent relates generally to hybrid video coding in a single block and has been designated as essential to SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool.

View district court litigations by InterDigital. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015233.