FireNet Technologies patent held unpatentable

On March 18, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Firenet Technologies, LLC holding all claims of U.S. Patent 8,892,600 (claims 1-17 and 19-23) unpatentable. This is an IPinvestments Group entity. The ’600 patent, generally directed to a proxy firewall system for protecting devices within a network. FireNet had previously sued Kemp Technologies, Fortinet, Citrix, A10 Networks, and Fujitsu.

View FireNet’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

$1,500 Awarded for DivX '792 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, James Busch, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for his prior art submission for US 8,472,792. The patent is owned by DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of well-known NPE, Fortress Investment Group. The '792 patent relates to encoding and decoding multimedia files having at least one video track and at least one audio track and had been asserted against Netflix and Hulu in district court.

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 7,139,470

DivX '792 PATROLL Winni... by Jennifer M Gallagher

Proven Networks patent challenged

On March 16, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,018,852, owned by Proven Networks, LLC. This patent relates to a port selection technique used in a network switching environment where there are multiple equal-cost paths between two nodes. The ‘852 patent has been asserted against Palo Alto Networks, Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, HPE, NetApp, Arista, F5, and Extreme Networks.

View district court litigations by Proven Networks. Unified is represented David Tennant, David Markoff, and Kiersten Batzli of White and Case and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,702, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Reexam Request for Proven Networks by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$3,000 for Acacia subsidiary prior art, Stingray IP Solutions

On March 10, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 51 of U.S. Patent 7,224,678. The patent is owned by Stingray IP Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Group, an NPE.

The '678 patent generally relates to wireless LAN with intrusion detection features. It has been asserted against TP-Link Technologies, Signify, and Samsung in the Eastern District of Texas.

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

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$2,000 for Trinity Info Media prior art

On March 2, 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 9,087,321. The patent is owned by Trinity Info Media, LLC f/k/a Trinity Intel Media LLC, an NPE.

The '321 patent generally relates to a system that provides an on-line network of friends that are determined through polling each of the users. It is currently being asserted against Hornet Networks, Raya App, The League App, Covalent, and Coffee Meets Bagel.

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

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