Sound View '860 patent challenged

On March 30, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,135,860, owned by Sound View Innovations, LLC. The ‘860 patent relates to data processing that transforms web content into a format suitable for display by a client device, and has been asserted against Facebook.

View district court litigations by Sound View. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh, 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 90/014,713, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Sound View '860 Reexam Request by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Context Directions patent challenged

On March 29, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,142,791, owned by Context Directions, LLC, which is affiliated with Jeffrey Gross. The patent relates to the use of hierarchical sensor groups in mobile devices. The ‘791 patent and its family have been asserted against Samsung and LG in district court.

View district court litigations by Context Directions. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,712, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

CON791 Request Reexam by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

BCS Software patent challenged

On March 26, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,302,612, owned by BCS Software LLC. The '612 patent relates to a high-level operational support framework for monitoring, assessing, and managing the health of applications (or components/objects) in a distributed computing environment. The ‘612 patent has been asserted against Hewlett Packard, Elster Solutions (Honeywell), Landis+Gyr, and Itron.

View district court litigations by BCS Software. Unified is represented by in-house counsel David Seastrunk, Ashraf Fawzy, and Ellyar Barazesh.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,709, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Reexam Request BCS612 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Dominion Harbor entity, Sovereign Peak Ventures, patent challenged

On March 26, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,042,457, owned by Sovereign Peak Ventures, a Dominion Harbor entity. The ’457 patent relates to video processing and has been asserted against LG and TCL.

View district court litigations by Sovereign Peak Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding.

$1,000 Awarded for Ryujin LLC prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Herb Cohen, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for his prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,577,559, owned by Ryujin LLC, previously a J. Szarzynski entity but now an affiliate of Endpoint IP. The '559 patent generally relates to a system and method for delivering media content to a user and had been asserted in district court against Plex Inc. and Synology Inc..

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.

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