$2,000 for Quest Patent Research entity Taasera Licensing computer security patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 6 of U.S. Patent 7,673,137, owned by Taasera Licensing LLC, an NPE and Quest Patent Research Corp subsidiary. The patent is generally directed to managing the security of a network. The ‘137 patent has been asserted against Trend Micro, Palo Alto Networks, and Crowdstrike.

The contest will expire on February 28, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for IP Edge entity Hitel Technologies information processing patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,689,617, owned by Hitel Technologies, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge subsidiary. The patent generally relates to dynamic learning for information processing. The ‘617 patent has been asserted against several companies like Guess, Tapestry Inc., Everlane, Perry Ellis, Lamps Plus, and others.

The contest will expire on February 28, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Dynamic IP Deals entity AK Meeting IP groupware patent likely invalid

On January 9, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 10,963,124, owned and asserted by AK Meeting IP LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals entity. The ‘124 patent relates to computer-supported cooperative work software, also known as groupware, and has been asserted in seven district court actions, including current actions against Cisco Systems, Fuze, and Lifesize.

View district court litigations by AK Meeting IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jordan Rossen.

Dynapass IP user authentication patent challenged

On January 6, 2023, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,993,658, owned and asserted by Dynapass IP Holdings LLC. The '658 patent is generally directed to two factor authentication systems using personal communication devices. The '658 patent has been asserted against several banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Truist, and PNC.

View district court litigations by Dynapass IP Holdings. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding.

IP Edge entity Invincible IP's virtual machine patent invalidated

On January 5, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Invincible IP LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,678,774 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Invincible IP LLC, an IP Edge entity, the '774 patent relates to allowing or denying migration of virtual machines based on the geographic location of the target host. It had been asserted against Citrix Systems, Nutanix, Alibaba Cloud US, DigitalOcean, NetApp, and Skytap in the District of Delaware.

View district court litigations by Invincible IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes, Roshan Mansinghani, and Ashraf Fawzy.