$2,000 awarded for Owlpoint IP entity Universal Connectivity communications patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Dinesh Swami, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,154,905, owned by Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc., an NPE and entity of Owlpoint IP Opportunities JVF LP. The ‘905 patent generally relates to communications techniques and particularly to communications between hosts and data store devices. The patent has been asserted against Dell, HP Inc., and Lenovo Group.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

• US 5574934

• US 6426947

• US 5673254

Dominion Harbor entity, Columbia Peak, video surveillance patent challenged

On September 26, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,446,803, owned and asserted by Columbia Peak Ventures, LLC, an NPE and Dominion Harbor entity. The ‘803 patent relates to a system for annotating and searching video files.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

Factor2 Multimedia authentication patent challenge instituted

On September 17, 2024, two 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 10,083,285, owned and asserted by Factor2 Multimedia Systems, LLC, an NPE. The ‘285 patent relates to two-factor authentication methods and systems. It is currently being asserted against a variety of companies, from financial institutions like Washington Federal Bank and Texas Capital Bank to large companies like Amazon, Snap, and TikTok.

View district court litigations by Factor2 Multimedia. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019596

VirtaMove's Kubernetes / open source patent challenged

On September 23, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,784,058, owned and asserted by VirtaMove Corp (f/k/a Appzero Software Corp). an NPE. The ’058 patent relates to operating system libraries and instanced computing environments. It has been asserted against IBM, Google, HP, and Amazon. 

View district court litigations by VirtaMove Corp. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Matthew Beck, Michelle Aspen, and Roshan Mansinghani.

Acacia entity, Monarch, networking patent found invalid

On September 20, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all 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