Acacia entity, Monarch Networking Solutions, patent held invalid

On May 27, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Monarch Networking Solutions LLC holding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,756,507 unpatentable. Owned by Monarch Networking Solutions LLC, an NPE and an Acacia Research entity, the ‘507 patent is related to two-step authentication. The ‘507 patent was asserted against Cisco, Meraki, and Duo Security.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking Solutions. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by John Baird, Patrick McPherson, and Paul Belnap of Duane Morris LLP, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

IP Edge entity, Savannah Licensing, patent challenged

On May 27, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,454,777, owned and asserted by Savannah Licensing, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The '777 patent relates to using feedback based on a user's indication of frustration with a device and has been asserted against Nuu Mobile, Atlassian, Snapchat, Instagram, and Sony.

View district court litigations by Savannah Licensing. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Jung Hahm and Michelle Aspen.

Speir Technologies patent challenged

On May 27, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,321,777, owned and asserted by Speir Technologies Ltd., an NPE and Magnetar Capital entity. The ’777 patent relates to using a wireless device to locate a remote wireless device and has been asserted against Samsung and Apple.

View district court litigations by Speir Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani.

Mirror Imaging patent likely invalid

On May 26, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 9,928,275, owned by Mirror Imaging, LLC, an NPE. The ‘275 patent is generally related to financial document retrieval and storage systems and has been asserted against Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Capital One, PNC Bank, BancorpSouth Bank, and others.

View district court litigations by Mirror Imaging. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by John Baird of Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jung Hahm.

$12,000 for Magnetar Capital sub, Ollnova Technologies, prior art

On May 25, 2022, Unified added 4 new PATROLL contests, with a $3,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Ollnova Technologies Limited, an NPE and Magnetar Capital subsidiary. The contests will all end on September 16, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

We also have third-party prior art providers giving our researchers a head start in the hunt! Click on each of the contests to find more from APEX Standards, Traindex.io, Ambercite, and Google Patent Analytics.