Reexamination

OptiMorphix network services patent challenged

On February 22, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,586,871, owned by OptiMorphix, Inc. The ‘871 patent relates to providing services in a data communications system. It has been asserted against Amazon, Broadcom, Cisco, F5, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware.

View district court litigations by OptiMorphix. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Kelly Hughes.

Anonymous Media ad measurement patent challenge instituted

On February 21, 2024, less than six 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 8,510,768, owned by Anonymous Media Research Holdings, LLC. The ‘768 patent relates to media monitoring and measurement systems for automatic content recognition (ACR) to, for example, measure viewership on Smart TVs. The patent has been asserted against Samsung and Roku.

View district court litigations by Anonymous Media Research. Unified is represented by Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019375

SLS Manager Tech router patent challenge instituted

On February 7, 2024, 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 claims of U.S. Patent 9,763,084, owned and asserted by SLS Manager Technologies LLC, an NPE and AiPi Solutions entity. The '084 patent is generally directed to a session router that selects a server to process a location request. It is currently being asserted against Cisco and was previously asserted against Microsoft, Oracle, and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by SLS Manager Technologies. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019336

Better Browsing web browser patent invalidated

On February 12, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,838,736, owned and asserted by Better Browsing LLC. The '736 patent relates generally to a zoom feature for an internet browser and has been asserted against Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, Opera Norway AS, Toshiba, Acer, Razer, and ASUSTeK.

View district court litigations by Better Browsing. Unified is represented by Chris Coulson at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90020154.

Magnetar Capital entity Togail Technologies 5G patent instituted

On February 7, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,791,502, owned by Togail Technologies Ltd., a Magnetar Capital entity. The ’502 patent relates to error-handling procedures for system information requests in communications. It has been asserted against 3GPP devices from companies including TCL Technology, Apple, Google, Motorola, and Samsung.

View district court litigations by Togail Technologies. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen, Matt Beck, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019300