Uniloc patent challenged as likely invalid

On May 28, 2019, Unified, represented by Ropes & Gray, filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,519,005, owned and asserted by Uniloc 2017 LLC, a Uniloc affiliate and well-known NPE.  The ‘005 patent, directed to a method for performing motion estimation, a process used in digital video compression, has been asserted against numerous streaming and multimedia companies, including Amazon, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Bitmovin, Google, Hulu, Netflix, Roku, Sling TV, and Vudu.   

View Uniloc's district court litigation.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.

Sound View patent challenged as likely invalid

On May 28, 2019, Unified, represented by Finnegan Henderson, filed an IPR against U.S. Patent No. 6,034,621. The ‘621 patent is related to synchronization of data between a computer and a mobile device.  

To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified's Portal.

Kojicast patent challenged as likely invalid

On May 24, 2019, Unified, represented by Haynes and Boone, filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,749,380, owned and asserted by Kojicast, LLC, an NPE. The ‘380 patent, directed to streaming multimedia content from a server to a media playing device through operation of a portable device such as a tablet or smartphone, has been asserted against Dailymotion.  

View Kojicast's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified's Portal.

Inventergy LBS patent challenged as likely invalid

On May 24, 2019, Unified, represented by Finnegan Henderson, filed an IPR against U.S. Patent No. 9,781,558, owned by Inventergy LBS, LLC.  The ‘558 patent, related to monitoring and communicating tracking devices, has been asserted against tracking device vendors such as Tracking the World, Inc., Geofroce, Inc., and USGlobalSat, Inc.  

View Inventergy LBS's district court litigation.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, visit our Portal.

$10,000 PATROLL Contest added for Packet Intelligence Patent

On May 24, 2019, Unified added a $10,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for U.S. Patent No. 6,839,751 which has been asserted by Packet Intelligence, LLC, an NPE. The '751 patent, generally related to monitoring and analyzing a flow of packets passing through a connection point on a computer network, has been asserted in nine district court cases to date.

Routers and firewall appliances have primarily been targeted.

For the purposes of this contest, “conversational flow” is construed to mean the sequence of packets that are exchanged in any direction as a result of an activity (for instance, the running of an application on a server as requested by a client), where some conversational flows involve more than one connection, and some even involve more than one exchange of packets between a client and server.  And, a single reference must link communications by *application* as opposed to by layer and client-server pair.

The contest will expire on June 24, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.