Fractus LTE antenna patent challenged

On October 10, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,349,200, owned and asserted by Fractus S.A., an NPE. The ‘200 patent generally relates to a wireless device that includes an antenna system that has a level of complexity above a certain threshold. The patent has been asserted against ADT and Vivint.

View district court litigations by Fractus. Unified is represented by Chris Coulson at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Alyssa Holtslander.

Buffalo Patents teleconferencing patent found invalid in reexam

On October 12, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,839,417, owned and asserted by Buffalo Patents, LLC. The ’417 patent is directed to initiating, joining, managing, and participating in conference calls. The patent was asserted against Spotify, LogMeIn, Discord, and RingCentral.

View district court litigations by Buffalo Patents. Unified was represented by James Stein and Pooya Shoghi of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019173

Atlantic IP entity, Foras Technologies, parallel processor patent reexam granted

On October 10, 2023, less than six weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,627,781, owned and asserted by Foras Technologies, Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The ‘781 patent relates to lockstep processor technology where two processors are paired together, and the two processors perform exactly the same-operations and the results-are compared.(e.g., with an XOR gate). The patent has been asserted against Toyota and Nissan.

View district court litigations by Foras Technologies. Unified is represented by Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019244

B.S.D Crown streaming video patent reexam granted

On October 5, 2023, less than five weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,389,473, owned and asserted by B.S.D Crown Ltd. (f/k/a Emblaze Ltd.), an NPE. The ‘473 patent relates to streaming video over the Internet. The patent is being asserted against Amazon.

View district court litigations by B.S.D. Crown (f/k/a Emblaze Ltd.). Unified is represented by Nick Apel and Eric Buresh of Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015291

Dialect natural language patent challenged

On September 27, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,495,957, owned and asserted by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘957 patent relates to natural language human machine interactions using context information. The patent has been asserted against Amazon and Samsung. 

View district court litigations by Dialect. Unified is represented by Patrick Muldoon, John Baird, and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.