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On February 28, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,406,994, owned and asserted by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The '994 patent is generally directed to displaying maps on GPS receivers. It has been asserted against Toyota, Honda, BMW, and Changan Ford Automobile Company.
View district court litigations by InfoGation. Unified is represented by Slater Matsil, LLP, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani.
On February 28, 2024, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Rosen Technologies LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,156,318 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Rosen Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Valuation Partners, the ‘318 patent is directed to a programmable thermostat having virtual buttons that control space conditioning equipment. It had been asserted against Resideo Technologies and Lennox International, and most recently, Ecobee.
View district court litigations by Rosen Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
On February 23, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,823,826, owned by Communication Advances LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘826 patent is being asserted against GM in one of IP Edge’s first litigation campaigns after three of the lawyers associated with the NPE were referred for discipline by Delaware Chief Judge Connolly for violating professional conduct rules.
The ‘826 patent is directed to digital cameras and image processing methods for digital cameras where an application is triggered when the subject’s eye-gazing direction meets an eye-gazing criterion. It has been asserted against GM.
View district court litigations by Communication Advances. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk.
On February 23, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,473,478, owned and asserted by Datanet, LLC. The ‘478 patent is directed to an automatic real-time file management method and apparatus. The patent is currently being asserted against Microsoft and Dropbox.
View district court litigations by Datanet. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015216.
On February 22, 2024, less than five 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 9,264,441, owned by Lionra Technologies Ltd, a Magnetar Capital entity. The ‘441 patent relates to detecting vulnerability exploits of a network using a virtual machine and has been asserted against Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Crowdstrike, VMware, and Cisco.
View district court litigations by Lionra Technologies. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and James Pawlowski at Rothwell Figg, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019384
