2S Ventures affiliate, Optima Direct, settles with Unified

On February 1, 2021, the Board issued an order terminating IPR2020-00784 pursuant to a joint settlement request filed by Unified Patents and Optima Direct, LLC, an NPE and affiliate of 2S Ventures. U.S. Patent 8,646,060, generally directed to adaptive authentication methods using a mobile device, has been asserted in district court cases against HID Global Corporation, OneLogin, Ping Identity and Okta.

Unified was represented by Andrew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding. View Optima Direct’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal.

Inspire Licensing patent challenged

On January 29, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,005,427, owned and asserted by Inspire Licensing, an NPE and affiliate of IP Edge. The ’427 patent is related to sensors that generate alarms for a vehicle.

View district court litigations by Inspire Licensing. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes Boone and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,665, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

EfilingAck41776646 50348.47 ExParte Request by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$2,000 for NorthStar Systems prior art

On February 1, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,478,527. This patent is owned by NorthStar Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners, LLC, an NPE. The ’527 patent generally relates to displaying and generating object vector indicators on an electronic map (e.g., visually displaying a route between two points of interest on a map). The ‘527 patent has been asserted against TCT Mobile, OnePlus Science & Technology, Kyocera, and ZTE.

The contest will expire on April 30, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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EPO challenge filed against Dolby patent

On January 29, 2021, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 2 659 675 B1, owned by Dolby International AB. The patent is related to patents that are designated essential to SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Read the entire filing below. Unified is represented by Leythem Wall at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jung Hahm.

Opposition as Filed O307002EP_9725746 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$2,000 for Magnacross prior art

On February 1, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,917,304. This patent is owed by Magnacross, LLC, an IP Edge entity and well-known NPE. The ’304 patent generally relates to wireless data transmission through wireless access points or routers and has been asserted in over 100 litigations against many networking companies, including T-Mobile, Sprint, Acer, Logitech, and ZTE.

The contest will expire on April 1, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Pseudo Claim Charting
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Invalidity Report
Traindex	Prior Art Report
InQuartik	Semantic Prior Art