Reexamination

DynaIP entity WirelessWerx IP geofencing patent challenge granted

On September 2, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 19, 28, 42, 53, and 61 of U.S. Patent 7,323,982, owned by WirelessWerx IP LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals LLC entity. The ‘982 patent is directed to tracking and managing wireless devices using geofencing techniques.

View district court litigations by WirelessWerx. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jason Wejnert, in this proceeding. Opposing counsel is Ramey LLP.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016423

UBQS-IP file collaboration patent challenged

On September 2, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,313,580, owned and asserted by UBQS-IP LLC, an NPE and entity of Pueblo Nuevo LLC. The '580 patent is directed to sharing information between a user group and an associated document using decentralized storage.

View district court litigations by UBQS-IP. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.

IdeaHub H.266 / VVC codec patent challenged

On August 28, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,212,422, owned by Ideahub Inc., an NPE. The ‘422 patent is directed to video coding and decoding using quantization parameters based on the block information of the specific encoding or decoding object block. A related patent was asserted in Europe. The ‘422 patent has been designated as essential to the VVC standard in the Access Advance’s VVC patent pool.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

Flash Uplink hard drive firmware patent challenge granted

On August 19, 2026, 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 all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,426,633 owned and asserted by Flash Uplink LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The ‘633 patent generally relates to updating disk-drive firmware with minimal downtime.

View district court litigations by Flash Uplink. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jenn Bisk and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016409

NovaCloud Licensing streaming patent challenge granted

On August 10, 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 8,145,721 owned and asserted by NovaCloud Licensing LLC, an NPE. The ‘721 patent relates to a method of downloading a multimedia file from a server to a user device using, at least in part, a bandwidth-limited connection. It is currently asserted against Charter Communications, Comcast, Amazon, SAP, Meta, and Cox Communications.

View district court litigations by NovaCloud. Unified is represented by Steven Shipe of Barnes & Thornburg and by in-house counsel, Kyla Butler and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016433