Acacia entity, Monarch, networking patent challenged

On September 8, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,451,845, owned and asserted by Monarch Networking Solutions, LLC, an Acacia Research Corp. entity.  The ‘845 patent relates to converting data packets between the IPv4 and IPv6 domains. It has been asserted against Cisco and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

MDSP Technologies navigation patent challenged

On September 11, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,239,376, owned and asserted by MDSP Technologies LLC.  The ‘376 patent relates to determining the position and acceleration of a mobile device using doppler aided inertial navigation. It has been asserted against Google, Apple, Samsung, Garmin, and TomTom.

View district court litigations by MDSP Technologies. Unified is represented by Patrick Muldoon, John Baird, and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

$2,000 for Empire IP entity, BT Wearables, 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 10,729,336, owned by BT Wearables LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. The ‘336 patent relates generally to a mobile device such as a watch. It has been asserted against Dillard’s Incorporated.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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DynaIP entity, Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, IoT patent reexam granted

On September 8, 2023, less than six weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on all of the claims of U.S. Patent 8,909,779, owned and asserted by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, LLC, an NPE and DynaIP entity.  The ’779 patent relates to methods for controlling devices in an environment. It is currently being asserted against CPI Security Systems, Google, and Ring, and it has been asserted against others.

View district court litigations by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and TJ Murphy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015264

Atlantic IP entity, Foras Technologies, parallel processors patents challenged

On September 1, 2023, Unified Patents filed ex parte reexamination proceedings against three separate patents owned and asserted by Foras Technologies, Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The challenged patents relate to lockstep processor technology where two processors are paired together, and the two processors perform exactly the same-operations and the results-are compared.(e.g., with an XOR gate). The patents have been asserted against various automobile manufacturers. U.S. Patent 7,502,958 has been asserted against Toyota, Kia, BMW, Nissan, and Volkswagen. U.S. Patent 7,624,302 has been asserted against Nissan and ZF Friedrichshafen AG. U.S. Patent 7,627,781 has been asserted against Toyota and Nissan.

View district court litigations by Foras Technologies. Unified is represented by Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy, Roshan Mansinghani, and Ashraf Fawzy in these proceedings.