Mel NavIP automobile speech recognition patent challenge instituted

On March 5, 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 8,060,368, owned and asserted by Mel NavIP, LLC. The '368 patent is generally directed to navigation and speech recognition for a vehicle. The patent had been asserted against Toyota and is currently asserted against GM and Hyundai.

View district court litigations by Mel NavIP. Unified is represented by Jessica Kaiser and Tyler Knox of Perkins Coie, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019326

Corrigent networking patent invalidated

On March 5, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,330,431, owned and asserted by Corrigent Corporation, an NPE. The '431 patent is directed to bandwidth assignment in logical network topologies. The patent is being asserted against Cisco, Dell, and Arista Networks.

View district court litigations by Corrigent Corporation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and T.J. Murphy, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015224

Portsmouth Network Corp communication patent challenged

On March 5, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,014,394, owned by Portsmouth Network Corporation, an NPE. The '394 patent is generally directed to methods and systems for delivering multicast traffic over communication networks. It has been asserted against Cisco and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by Portsmouth. Unified is represented by James Stein and Bruce Bower of Lee & Hayes, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and T.J. Murphy.

IQar automotive patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 10,882,399, owned by IQar, Inc., an NPE. The ‘399 patent generally relates to power management in vehicle engines and has been asserted against Tesla.

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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$2,000 for Keysoft information sharing 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 8,271,315, owned by Keysoft, Inc., an NPE. The ‘315 patent relates to a personal information utilization system utilizing off-premise communication networks such as the Internet. The patent has been asserted against Amazon and Salesforce.

The contest will expire on April 26, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.