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On April 3, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,473,478, owned and asserted by Datanet, LLC. The ‘478 patent is directed to an automatic real-time file management method and apparatus. The patent is currently being asserted against Microsoft and Dropbox.
View district court litigations by Datanet. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.
On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,156,318, owned and asserted by Rosen Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Valuation Partners. The ‘318 patent is directed to a programmable thermostat having virtual buttons that control space conditioning equipment and has been asserted against Resideo Technologies and Lennox International.
View district court litigations by Rosen Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Liberty Peak Ventures LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,066,181 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC, a Dominion Harbor entity, the '181 patent relates to generating an authentication tag for use in contactless transactions and had been asserted against Citigroup.
View district court litigations by Liberty Peak Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen, Roshan Mansinghani, and Ashraf Fawzy.
Unified added 7 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Entropic Communications, an NPE and SoftBank subsidiary. The contests will all end on May 15, 2023. 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, Techson IP, IPscreener, and Google Patent Analytics.
US 7,295,518 - Broadband Network for Coaxial Cable Using Multi-carrier Modulation (litigations)
US 7,889,759 - Broadband Cable Network Utilizing Common Bit-loading (litigations)
US 8,284,690 - Receiver Determined Probe
US 8,363,681 - Using Ranging Measurements in a Multimedia Home Network
US 9,838,213 - Parameterized Quality of Service Architecture in a Network
Two new PATROLL contests have been added, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on claim 31 of U.S. Patent 8,456,365 and claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,674,887. The patents are owned by Fractus, SA, an NPE, and have been asserted against ADT. The contests will end on May 31, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
| Prior Art Provider | Claim Chart Link for ‘365 | Claim Chart Link for ‘887 |
|---|---|---|
| Apex Standards | Claim Report | Claim Report |
| Techson IP | Limestone|Report | Limestone|Report |
| IPscreener | Relevant Prior Art | Relevant Prior Art |
| Similar Documents - Patents | Similar Documents - Patents | |
| Similar Documents - NPL | Similar Documents - NPL | |
| Unified Portal | Relevant Prior Art | Relevant Prior Art |
