Fractus LTE antenna patent challenge instituted

On January 10, 2024, three 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 11,349,200, owned and asserted by Fractus S.A., an NPE. The ‘200 patent generally relates to a wireless device that includes an antenna system that has a level of complexity above a certain threshold. The patent has been asserted against ADT and Vivint.

View district court litigations by Fractus. Unified is represented by Chris Coulson at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Alyssa Holtslander.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019275

$2,000 for DynaIP entity Cloud Systems Holdco IP data management patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,975,051, owned by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, LLC, an entity of Dynamic IP Deals. The present invention relates to a system and method for controlling, managing and routing data among multiple devices that are sources or consumers of streaming data and control devices present in a given environment in a hardware independent manner. The patent has been asserted against ADT, Samsung, Vivint, Monitronics, Google, and Ring.

The contest will expire on March 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Secure NFC PTY security patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,374,712, owned by owned by Secure NFC PTY. Ltd. The invention relates to the field of information technology security (ITS), and particularly, but not exclusively, to a multi-issuer architecture to enable the coexistence of the Secure Element partitions allocated to each card issuer within NFC enabled devices such as mobile smart-phones. It has been asserted against Mastercard.

The contest will expire on March 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Umbra Tech firewall patent challenged

On January 2, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,574,482, owned and asserted by Umbra Technologies Ltd. The ’482 patent is relevant to systems using a multi-perimeter firewall in a cloud-based system. The patent has been asserted against Cisco and VMware.

View district court litigations by Umbra Tech. Unified is represented by James Stein at Lee and Hayes and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

Dynamic IP Deals entity AK Meeting IP groupware patent held invalid

On January 5, 2024, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. v. AK Meeting IP LLC, holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,963,124 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by AK Meeting IP, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals entity, the ‘124 patent relates to computer-supported cooperative work software, also known as groupware, and has been asserted in seven district court actions, including current actions against Cisco Systems, Fuze, and Lifesize.

View district court litigations by AK Meeting IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jordan Rossen.