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Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Columbia Peak Ventures, LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group. The patents generally relate to smart TV software and video applications.
The contests will expire on August 15, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
US 7,446,803 - Synchronous Video and Data Annotations
On May 23, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,451,845, owned and asserted by Monarch Networking Solutions, LLC, an Acacia Research Corp. entity. The ‘845 patent relates to converting data packets between the IPv4 and IPv6 domains. It had been asserted against Cisco and Juniper Networks.
View district court litigations by Monarch Networking. Unified was represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019246
Unified Patents added four 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 and generally relate to virtual data warehousing. The patents have asserted Kubernetes implementations of JP Morgan Chase, Comerica, and Liberty Mutual.
The contests will expire on June 30, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
US 7712080 - Parallel Distributed Programming
US 7949785 - Secure Virtual Community Network System
US 8332844 - Root Image Caching
US 8407722 - Transferring Information Through Digital Networks
Unified Patents added two PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The patents generally relate to software applications and are being asserted against Kubernets implementations. The ‘780 patent has been asserted against IBM, Cisco, and Fortinet. The ‘601 patent has been asserted against Palo Alto Networks and Cisco.
The contests will expire on June 30, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
On May 29, 2024, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision confirming that claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,546,397 were unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Express Mobile, Inc., a well-known NPE, the ’397 patent generally relates to website building software. Express Mobile has asserted this patent over 100 times in district court against companies employing both proprietary website-building platforms and open-source platforms like WordPress and Magento. Its numerous complaints have included assertions against companies large and small, including eGrove Systems, Shopify, Web.com Group, Inc., Squarespace, and HubSpot.
View district court litigations by Express Mobile. Read the request below. Unified is represented by Abed Balbaky and Scott McKeown, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud, in this proceeding.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014615
