$12,000 for Intellectual Ventures networking patents prior art

Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE. The patents have been asserted against JP Morgan Chase, Comerica, and Liberty Mutual.

The contests will expire on January 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 7280998 - Virtual Data Warehousing

US 7314167 - Secure Transactions

US 7712080 - Parallel Distributed Programming

US 7949785 - Secure Virtual Community Network System

US 8332844 - Root Image Caching

US 8407722 - Transferring Information Through Digital Networks

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

On November 29, 2023, less than three months 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 7,502,958, owned and asserted by Foras Technologies, Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The ‘958 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).

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/90019245

$6,000 for InfoGation navigation patents prior art

Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,292,743, U.S. Patent 8,898,003, and U.S. Patent 10,107,628, all owned by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The patents generally relate to navigation systems. The patents have been asserted against Toyota, BMW, and Honda.

The contests will expire on January 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 6292743 - Mobile Navigation System (litigations)

US 8898003 - GPS-based Navigation System

US 10107628 - Navigating on Artistic Maps

GEVC HEVC patent revoked in EPO

On November 28, 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 2805491, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The ‘491 patent is generally directed to video coding using parallel processing. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance patent pool. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

$10,000 for Mimzi audio recording patents prior art

Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Mimzi LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to systems for recording audio conversations. The patents have been asserted against Foursquare, TripAdvisor, HTC, Acer, ASUSTek, and Samsung.

The contests will expire on January 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 11086929 - Photographic Memory (litigations)

US 11308156 - Photographic Memory (litigations)

US 11100163 - Photographic Memory (litigations)

US 9792361 - Photographic Memory

US 9128981 - Recording and Processing Audio (litigations)