$2,000 for Rainforest Innovations data transmission 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 8,265,096, owned by Rainforest Innovations, an NPE and entity of The University of New Mexico. The ‘096 patent generally relates to a method of constructing a frame structure for data transmission. The present invention relates to orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, and more particularly, the present invention relates to methods for constructing frame structures in OFDMA systems. The patent is currently asserted against Toyota, ZyXEL, D-Link, AsusTek, and TP-Link.

The contest will expire on December 8, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Buffalo Patents teleconferencing patent found invalid in reexam

On October 12, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,839,417, owned and asserted by Buffalo Patents, LLC. The ’417 patent is directed to initiating, joining, managing, and participating in conference calls. The patent was asserted against Spotify, LogMeIn, Discord, and RingCentral.

View district court litigations by Buffalo Patents. Unified was represented by James Stein and Pooya Shoghi of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019173

Atlantic IP entity, Foras Technologies, parallel processor patent reexam granted

On October 10, 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 the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,627,781, owned and asserted by Foras Technologies, Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The ‘781 patent relates 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 patent 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 and Roshan Mansinghani, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019244

Fractus antenna patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 8,674,887, owned by Fractus, SA, an NPE. The ‘887 patent generally relates to a multi-band monopole antenna for a mobile communications device and has been asserted against ADT.

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.

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B.S.D Crown streaming video patent reexam granted

On October 5, 2023, less than five 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 the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,389,473, owned and asserted by B.S.D Crown Ltd. (f/k/a Emblaze Ltd.), an NPE. The ‘473 patent relates to streaming video over the Internet. The patent is being asserted against Amazon.

View district court litigations by B.S.D. Crown (f/k/a Emblaze Ltd.). Unified is represented by Nick Apel and Eric Buresh of Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015291