$10,000 for Longhorn Automotive auto patents prior art

Unified has added 5 new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Longhorn Automotive Group, LLC, an entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The patents generally relate to auto manufacturing and supplies. The patents have all been asserted against Nissan.

The contests will expire on August 30, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 7,513,238 - Optimizing Fuel Distribution within an Internal Combustion Engine

US 7,634,666 - Crypto-Engine for Cryptographic Processing

US 7,987,002 - Distributed Measurement System

US 8,265,353 - Forming an Image of a Mobile Object

US 8,810,803 - Lens System

OptiMorphix networking patent challenge instituted

On June 11, 2024, less than three 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 7,031,314, owned by OptiMorphix, Inc. The ‘314 patent is generally directed to providing differentiated services within a network communication system at a service module. It is asserted against Microsoft, Broadcom, Cisco, Oracle, Amazon, VMWare, and Google.

View district court litigations by OptiMorphix. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019520

Another ETRI HEVC patent revoked in EPO

On June 6, 2024, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 2672708. The EP ‘708 patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The patent is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance and SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools. The claims are generally directed to video coding/decoding methods and apparatuses that use a clipped motion vector.

Unified is represented by Owain Staines and Susan Keaton at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Telsync Technologies, wireless 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 8,897,263, owned by Telsync Technologies, LLC, a Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘263 patent relates to a method for synchronizing multiple mobile devices in a wireless network. It has been recently asserted against AT&T, Accenture PLC, Samsung, Ericsson, ZTE, and T-Mobile.

The contest will expire on August 30, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

DynaIP entity, Cloud Systems, environment control patent challenged

On June 7, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,533,326, owned and asserted by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, LLC, an NPE and DynaIP entity.  The ’326 patent focuses on a system and method for efficiently managing and routing data among multiple devices within a given environment. It was asserted against Philips North America.

View district court litigations by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.