Fortress IP entity Entropic Communications packet transmission patent challenged

On May 31, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,228,910, owned by Entropic Communications, LLC, an NPE and a Fortress IP entity. The '910 patent relates to aggregating packets for transmission to a destination node and has been asserted against Comcast, Cox Communications, Charter Communications, and Dish.

View district court litigations by Entropic Communications. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj and Matt Beck at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015242.

Fitistics fitness tracking patent challenged in reexam

On May 31, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,185,738, owned and asserted by Fitistics, LLC, an NPE. The ‘738 patent is generally directed to tracking exercise using a handheld device to obtain data from an exercise machine or body monitoring device. The patent has been asserted against Huawei and Fossil.

View district court litigations by Fitistics. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Kelly Hughes.

IP Investments Group entity, DataCloud Technologies, network patent challenged in reexam

On May 25, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,762,498, owned by DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘498 patent generally relates to communicating to a network through a virtual domain. It has been asserted in over 25 district court litigations, including against 8x8, A10 Networks, Squarespace, Box, Arista Networks, Extreme Networks, and others.

View district court litigations by DataCloud Technologies. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Kristen Logan of Rothwell Figg, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rosen and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015238

$2,000 awarded for Fortress IP entity Neo Wireless '302 patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Mani Manikandan, who was awarded a cash award of $2,000 for his prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,771,302, owned by Neo Wireless, LLC, an NPE and Fortress IP entity. The ‘302 patent generally relates to a broadband wireless communication system, a spread spectrum signal is intentionally overlapped with an OFDM signal, in a time domain, a frequency domain, or both. The patent has been asserted against several automotive companies such as Mercedes-Benz, FCA US, Toyota, Nissan, GM, Tesla, and others.

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Velos Media video codec patent challenged in reexam

On May 26, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,390,013, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '013 patent generally relates to encoding syntax elements that indicate tile information into a slice header.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh and Jessica L.A. Marks. To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015239.