Roaring Brook patent looks invalid

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Rohit Sood, who received a cash prize of $2000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 6,909,359, allegedly owned by Roaring Brook Advisors, LLC, a suspected NPE. The '359 patent generally relates to a medical notification device that may be worn as a wristwatch. To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent.  The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSION

  • US 5,872,505 (Wicks) in view of JP 2003/016185 and US 5,950,632

Barkan Wireless patent challenged as likely invalid

On June 1, 2018, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,014,284 owned and asserted by Barkan Wireless IP Holdings, LP, an NPE. The '248 patent, directed to an “add-on base station” in a cellular network, has been asserted in district court litigation against Verizon and Samsung. 

View Barkan Wireless' district court litigation here. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal.

Mobility Workx patent challenged as likely invalid

On June 1, 2018, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,213,417 owned and asserted by Mobility Workx, LLC, an NPE. The '417 patent is directed to providing a “preemptive and predictive solution” for allocating network resources in support of wireless devices traveling from network to network. This patent has been asserted in district court litigation against Verizon and T-Mobile. 

View Mobility Workx's district court litigation here. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal.

Acacia patent determined to be likely invalid

On May 23, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 8,902,770 owned and asserted by Cellular Communications Equipment, an Acacia subsidiary and well-known NPE. The '770 patent, directed to a method for “explicit signaling between a network and the user equipment,” has been asserted in district litigation against such companies as Apple, ZTE, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Boost Mobile, and T-Mobile. 

View the complete District Court litigation here. To read the decision and to view the entire IPR proceeding, visit our PTAB Portal. 

Anuwave settles with Unified Patents

On May 18, 2018, Anuwave LLC (an IP Edge entity) and Unified Patents Inc. filed a joint request to terminate IPR2018-00223 prior to institution pursuant to settlement. U.S. Patent 8,295,862, the subject of the IPR petition, relates to banking through SMS and has been asserted in more than 50 district court cases. More details regarding IPR2018-00223 are available on Unified's PTAB Portal. 

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