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On October 14, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent RE 47,720, owned by USTA Technology LLC, an NPE and entity of Oso IP, LLC. The patent relates to a method of spectrum-adaptive networking using the 802.11 standard. It has been asserted against Google, AT&T, ASUS, Lenovo, LG, and Samsung.
View district court litigations by USTA Technology. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
On October 3, 2024, the Patent Office issued a reexamination certificate cancelling claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,546,397, owned and asserted by Express Mobile, Inc. In May 2024, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision confirming that claim 1 was unpatentable. 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. Unified was represented by Ropes & Gray, 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
On October 11, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,463,768, owned and asserted by Piranha Media Distribution, LLC, an NPE and entity funded by HPCF Litigation Finance US I LLC. The ‘768 patent relates to providing advertisements in digital media. It has been asserted against Hulu.
View district court litigations by Piranha Media Distribution. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser of Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
Adamson & Partners and Unified Patents, a member-based organization whose goal is promoting innovation by protecting against frivolous patent litigation and reducing the number of non-practicing entity patent assertions, hosted over 200 IP and legal practitioners in Munich. The annual event, which is in its eighth year, was held on September 23 and 24, 2024.
Combining thought-leadership with Bavarian hospitality, the Munich IP Forum connected leaders in the IP & Legal sectors from industries including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, high-tech, automotive, and more to network and share the latest industry insights.
The agenda from this last year’s event, as well as a selection of photographs can be found here.
A highlight video from this year’s event can be found here.
To learn more about next year’s event, tentatively scheduled for 22 & 23 September 2025, visit munichipforum.com.
We are pleased to announce that Samsara, a leading IoT software company, is now a Unified Patents member. Samsara is joining 300+ other companies committed to deterring the assertion of bad patents by non-practicing entities (NPEs). In 2023, NPEs still accounted for 58% of all patent litigation, similar to its 5-year average. Unified is the only entity which deters invalid patent assertions and never pays NPEs.
