Another Atlas Global Wi-Fi patent challenged

On March 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,020,919, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘919 patent generally relates to sounding operations for identifying channel conditions in a wireless network based on Wi-Fi transmissions exchanged between an access point and wireless stations in the network. The patent is currently being asserted against HPE, but has been asserted against several companies in the past whose products comply with the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and Jessica L.A. Marks.

Vision Works vehicle anti-rollover patent challenged

On March 25, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,315,769, owned and asserted by Vision Works IP Corp., an NPE. The ’769 patent generally relates to changing suspension characteristics of a moving vehicle in response to lateral acceleration. The ’769 patent is one of several patents asserted against Tesla, Suzuki, Nissan, Subaru, TATA Motors, Polaris, Zhejiang Geely Holding, and Mercedes-Benz.

View district court litigations by Vision Works IP. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jennifer Bisk and Alyssa Holtslander.

NL Giken video streaming patent challenged

On March 6, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,880,592, owned and asserted by NL Giken Incorporated. The ‘592 patent relates to a digital contents receiving apparatus. It is drawn to a device for receiving live programming as well as downloading content from the internet.

View district court litigations by NL Giken. Unified is represented by Stephen Cortiaus and Payam Rashidi of Slater Matsil, and in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen.

Mel NavIP speech recognition patent found invalid

On February 25, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 8,060,368, owned and asserted by Mel NavIP, LLC. The '368 patent is generally directed to navigation and speech recognition for a vehicle. The patent had been asserted against Toyota, GM, and Hyundai.

View district court litigations by Mel NavIP. Unified was represented by Jessica Kaiser and Tyler Knox of Perkins Coie, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019326

Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted

On February 26, 2026, one month 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 12,166,587, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The ‘587 patent generally related to how to identify padding in Wi-Fi trigger frames. The '587 patent has not been asserted itself, but it is the latest issued patent in a family being used in litigation.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Vinu Raj, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015925