Roku and Unified Brands File Second Lawsuit against over 125 Foreign Online Counterfeiters

Unified Brands announces that it has, in partnership with Roku, filed a second District Court trademark infringement action against over 125 online counterfeiters on February 1, 2022 to enjoin and stop the sales of counterfeit goods on online marketplaces. Sales of counterfeit goods is a huge and growing problem for American businesses. As stores have migrated from physical locations to e-commerce sites – a move accelerated by the pandemic – online sales of counterfeit goods has become a multi-trillion dollar problem for American businesses.

Working with Unified Brands on regular enforcement activity ensures that counterfeiters now know selling fake Roku remotes will lead to substantial monetary losses, not just losing a listing. This is the second filing for Roku against infringers in Unified’s ongoing efforts to deter counterfeit product sales.

Roku II Complaint by JGallagher on Scribd

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, AutoBrilliance, prior art

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.

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$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Focus Global Solutions, prior art

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.

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PacSec3 '564 reexamination successfully challenged

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.

Torchlight Technologies patent challenged

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.