Fitistics fitness tracking patent reexam granted

On July 10, 2023, six weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all claims of 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.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015241

Corrigent networking patent reexam granted

On July 14, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,330,431, owned and asserted by Corrigent Corporation, an NPE. The '431 patent is directed to bandwidth assignment in logical network topologies. The patent is being asserted against Cisco, Dell, and Arista Networks.

View district court litigations by Corrigent Corporation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk, T.J. Murphy, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015224

IP Edge entity, AdaptFlow, media serving patent reexam granted

On July 17, 2023, less than six weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,015,064, owned and asserted by AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The '064 patent generally relates to prefetching content based on an access pattern of a user on a network. The patent is currently being asserted against Roku.

View district court litigations by AdaptFlow. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Better Browsing web browser patent reexam granted

On July 17, 2023, two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,838,736, owned and asserted by Better Browsing LLC. The '736 patent relates generally to a zoom feature for an internet browser and has been asserted against Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Opera Norway AS.

View district court litigations by Better Browsing. Unified is represented by Chris Coulson at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

$10,000 for IQar automotive patents prior art

Unified added 5 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by IQar, Inc., an NPE. The patents generally relate to power management in a vehicle engines. All 5 patents are currently being asserted against Tesla. The contests will end on September 30, 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 Techson IP, IPscreener, and Google Patent Analytics.

US 7,925,426 - Power Management Systems and Devices

US 8,972,161 - Power Management Systems and Devices

US 10,829,002 - Vehicle Destination Prediction

US 10,850,616 - Using Vehicle Systems to Generate a Route Database

US 10,882,399 - Electric Vehicle Power Management System