Dialect natural language patent found invalid

On March 6, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all original claims of 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 had been asserted against Amazon, Bank of America, and Samsung. 

View district court litigations by Dialect. Unified was 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.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015303

Jeffrey Gross entity, Lattice Technologies, alarm monitoring patent challenged

On March 6, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,098,153, owned and asserted by Lattice Technologies LLC, a Jeffrey Gross entity. The ‘153 patent relates to an emergency response system that cycles through contacts in an order of priority until reaching someone. They have asserted this patent against at least a dozen companies including Alarm.com, Alert360, Amazon, Comcast, and Vivint.

View district court litigations by Lattice Technologies. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Andrea Shoffstall.

Velos Media video codec patent challenge instituted

On March 4, 2025, 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 10,257,520, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '520 patent is generally directed to video coding and decoding processes for employing block rotation when transform skipping is enabled. The ‘520 patent is a listed patent in Velos’ global patent assets.

Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Adam Erickson of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90018789

Gesture Tech sensor patent invalidity confirmed by Fed. Circuit

On March 4, 2025, the Federal Circuit affirmed in a non-precedential opinion the Board’s final written decision invalidating claims of U.S. Patent 7,933,431. Owned by Gesture Technology Partners, LLC, the ‘431 patent is generally related to using human motion as an input device for computers and mobile devices. It had been asserted against Huawei, Samsung, Apple, Lenovo, and LG.

View district court litigations by Gesture Technology Partners. To read the petition and view the case record, visit Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Debbie McComas and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Longhorn Automotive measurement controller patent challenged

On February 26, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,987,002, owned and asserted by Longhorn Automotive Group LLC, an NPE and entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The ‘002 patent relates to a distributed measurement system for obtaining measurements and simulations in a distributed control system. It is currently being asserted against Volkswagen, Mazda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Volvo, and Nissan.

View district court litigations by Longhorn Automotive. Unified is represented by Ellyar Barazesh at Baker Botts, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.