Bandspeed frequency-hopping patent challenged

On February 6, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,903,608, owned and asserted by Bandspeed, LLC, an NPE. The ‘608 patent is generally directed to communication devices for adaptive frequency-hopping based on channel performance. The patent has been asserted in over 20 litigations since 2014 but most recently against Renesas, Itron, Espressif Systems, TCL, ASUStek, and others.

View district court litigations by Bandspeed. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani.

BlackBerry 3GPP patent challenged in EPO

On February 3, 2023, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3474621, owned by BlackBerry. EP ‘621 is generally directed to facilitating multi-carrier operation in a mobile communication system. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP 3GPP/LTE/5G Zone.

Unified is represented by Andrew McGettrick, Dr. Susan E. Keston, and David Millar of HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks.

$2,000 awarded for IP Investment entity, Alto Dynamics, activity monitoring patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $2,000 for her prior art submission on U.S. Patent 7,392,160, owned by Alto Dynamics, LLC, an IP Investment Group subsidiary. The patent generally relates to the monitoring, recording, and analysis of user activity and has been asserted against Redfin Corp., Wayfair, Stockx, and others.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSION

Magnetar Capital entity Togail Technologies 3GPP patent challenged

On February 3, 2023, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,791,502, owned by Togail Technologies Ltd., an Magnetar Capital entity. The ’502 patent relates to error-handling procedures for system information requests in communications and has been asserted against 3GPP devices. It is currently being asserted against Apple and TCL Technology Group.

View district court litigations by Togail Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by John Baird, Nicole Candelori, and Patrick McPherson of Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

$3,000 awarded for IP Investment entity, Alto Dynamics, authentication patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $3,000 for her prior art submissions on two patents, U.S. Patent 7,657,531 and U.S. Patent 8,051,098, owned by Alto Dynamics, LLC, an IP Investment Group subsidiary. The patents generally relate to state-less authentication and have been asserted against Redfin Corp., Wayfair, Stockx, and others.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS for ‘531

WINNING SUBMISSIONS for ‘098