WSOU '770 patent challenged

On July 2, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,333,770, formerly owned by Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation) but now owned by WSOU Investments, LLC. The ‘770 patent is generally related to broadcasting data in a telecommunications system and is being asserted against TP-Link Technology Co.

View district court litigations by WSOU Investments. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Drew Sommer at Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Alyssa Holtslander.

$10,000 for prior art on all 5 patents asserted by Invincible IP, an IP Edge entity

On August 2, 2021, Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, with a combined prize winnings of $10,000 (each at $2,000), seeking prior art on all asserted patents by IP Edge entity, Invincible IP:

• U.S. Patent 8,938,634 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘634 patent relates to power savings in a datacenter. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 8,954,993 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘993 patent relates to locally processing queue requests. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,479,472 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘472 patent relates to locally processing queue requests. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,635,134 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘134 patent relates to cloud computing resource management. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,678,774 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘774 patent relates to secure migration of virtual machines. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

All contests will end on October 31, 2021. Please contact info@unifiedpatents.com for any questions.

CommWorks Solutions patent challenged

On July 30, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,923,846, owned by CommWorks Solutions, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC. The ‘846 patent relates to the recovery of information in a mobile communications network. It has been asserted against Comcast Cable Communications.

View district court litigations by CommWorks Solutions. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Ashraf Fawzy.

World's First Search Engine for Ex Parte Reexaminations

New Portal Product and Features:

Ex Parte Reexaminations

Unified Patents’ Portal launches the world’s first search engine for Ex Parte Reexaminations. Users now can find up-to-date information on any given case, and search by case by number, patent number, or by party. Ex Parte Reexaminations are another way to challenge patents at the USPTO and traditionally have required users to know the patent involved and search through the prosecution history to see the filings. Until the introduction of the PTAB they were the most popular way to challenge bad patents.

Now, all challenges going back 15+ years are available and searchable. In addition, users can see outcomes (when possible) and find out who challenged which patent. Combined with Unified’s PTAB Tool, Unified is the only provider to enable users to comprehensively view every patent challenge in the US.

View All Ex Parte Reexmainations

Portal displays all Ex Parte Reexaminations for users to understand the significance and how this type of filing is being utilized. This would include searching by case number, patent number, patent owner, and requester.

View High-Level Analytics

Users are also able to view high-level analytics, including outcome, top parties, and filings by year.

View Complete Ex Part Docket

Portal also allows users to view the docket of any given case and retrieve up-to-date information at any given time.

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WSOU '213 reexamination request granted

On July 27, 2021, just three weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,103,213. Formerly owned by the Nokia Corporation, the ‘213 patent is currently owned by WSOU Investments, LLC and has been asserted against NEC in the Western District of Texas.

Unified is represented by Eric Buresh and Chris Schmidt from Erise IP and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014789.