Velos H.265 video codec patent challenge granted

On September 10, 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 challenged claims 1-2, 6-10, 13-14, and 18-20 of U.S. Patent 12,088,843, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '843 patent is generally directed to selecting the best motion vector to encode or decode a current block of a video frame. It has been asserted in litigation against H.265 compliant devices.

View district court litigations by Velos. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Dagim Tilahun of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016489

Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge granted

On September 8, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 12,150,105, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The '105 patent relates to wireless communication terminals and signaling, and more specifically to signaling information indicating circumstances in which operations based on the  Basic Service Set (BSS) color are not used. This challenge is part of Unified’s Wi-Fi zone and is the seventh filing against Wilus by Unified.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016388

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.