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On September 23, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 7,337,650, owned by AutoBrilliance LLC, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘650 patent generally relates to aligning sensors on a vehicle. The patent has been asserted against Honda, GM, and Nissan.
The contest will expire on December 1, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On September 23, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 6,920,494, owned by Focus Global Solutions, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘494 patent generally relates to a storage area network (SAN). The patent has been asserted against NetApp, Dell, VMware, Broadcom, and Oracle.
The contest will expire on November 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On September 23, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,047,564, owned by PacSec3, an NPE. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member. NACAR IP was also formed in early 2020 with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), a patent monetization company, identified as its managing member. The ‘564 patent had been asserted against F5 Networks, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Watchguard Technologies.
View district court litigation by PacSec3. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014818.
On September 22, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 11,208,029, owned and asserted by Torchlight Technologies LLC, an NPE. The '029 patent is directed to a headlight system that increases light in a direction of road curvature. Torchlight has asserted the patent against several auto companies including Audi, Daimler, Mercedes-Benz USA, Porsche, Volkswagen, and GM.
View district court litigations by Torchlight Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.
On September 16, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,398,005, owned and asserted by Sunflower Licensing, LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘005 patent relates generally to video recording systems that record digitally encoded video sequences onto disc media such as recordable digital video discs, hard drives and magneto optical discs. This patent is being asserted against GoPro, Ricoh Imaging, NGL Energy, Orsted North America, Central Security Group, ADT, and others. This filing is part of Unified’s continued efforts in the SEP Video Codec Zone.
View district court litigations by Sunflower Licensing. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
