VDPP stitched image patent challenged

On March 18, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,426,452, owned and asserted by VDPP LLC, an NPE. The '452 patent is generally directed to image processing to form a combined image from multiple video streams. It has been asserted over 20 times with active cases against Mazda, Motorola Mobility, Mercedes-Benz, NEC, HP Inc., Razer, Honda, Ricoh, GM, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Ford.

View district court litigations by VDPP. Unified is represented by O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Fitistics fitness tracking patent found invalid

On March 19, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,185,738, owned and asserted by Fitistics, LLC, an NPE. The ‘738 patent is generally directed to tracking exercise using a handheld device to obtain data from an exercise machine or body monitoring device. The patent had been asserted against Huawei and Fossil.

View district court litigations by Fitistics. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Kelly Hughes.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015241

IP Edge entity, AdaptFlow, media serving patent found invalid

On March 19, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) issued a notice of intent to issue an ex parte reexamination certificate in RE90/015,248, cancelling all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,015,064, owned and asserted by AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The '064 patent generally relates to prefetching content based on an access pattern of a user on a network. The patent had been asserted against Roku.

View district court litigations by AdaptFlow. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015248.

Adnexus advertising patent found invalid

On March 14, 2024, in less than 8 months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,719,101, owned and asserted by Adnexus, Inc., an NPE. The ‘101 patent relates to on-line advertising and has been asserted against Amazon, Meta Platforms, LinkedIn, Google, and eBay.

View district court litigations by Adnexus. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015262

Fortress IP entity, Neo Wireless, 4G/LTE patent challenge instituted

On March 14, 2024, three 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 9,948,488, owned by Neo Wireless, LLC, an NPE and Fortress IP entity. The '488 patent generally relates to transmitting probing signals in a wireless communication system employing OFDM, where multi-carrier signals and spread spectrum signals are overlaid together in both time and frequency domains. This reexamination challenge is part of Unified’s 3GPP zone. The '488 patent has not been asserted in litigation before, but related family members have been asserted against Mercedes-Benz, FCA, Toyota, Nissan, GM, Tesla, and others.

View district court litigation by Neo Wireless. Unified is represented by Jonathan Bowser and Clint Wilkins of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jessica L.A. Marks., in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019338