Intellectual Ventures open source/Apache patent challenge instituted

On October 18, 2024, one month 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 8,407,722, owned by Intellectual Ventures I LLC, an NPE. The ’722 patent relates to remotely updating client content at client devices through digital networks. It has been asserted against JP Morgan Chase, Liberty Mutual Holding Company, and Comerica Incorporated, and accuses the use of open source software Apache Kafka.

View district court litigations by Intellectual Ventures. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019662

SLS Manager Tech router patent found invalid

On October 18, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling the challenged claims 1-2, 8-13, and 16-19 of U.S. Patent 9,763,084, owned and asserted by SLS Manager Technologies LLC, an NPE and AiPi Solutions entity. The '084 patent is generally directed to a session router that selects a server to process a location request. It had been asserted against Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by SLS Manager Technologies. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019336

$2,000 for Mov-Ology electronic forms patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claims 1 and 9 of U.S. Patent 9,286,282, owned and asserted by Mov-Ology, LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to methods to retrieve data from partially completed electronic forms and use the retrieved data to identify the consumer who accessed the electronic form. The patent has been asserted against BigCommerce, Temenos AG, Formisimo, and Mouseflow ApS.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Lattice Technologies communications patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,098,153, owned by Lattice Technologies LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to a method of providing emergency response to a user carrying a user device and more specifically to establishing communication between the user device and a monitoring database over the Internet to provide such responses. It has been asserted against ADT, Alert360, and Vivint.

The contest will expire on December 11, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$14,000 for Avant Location Technologies mobile station patents prior art

Unified has added 7 new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on various claims on the list below. The patents are owned by Avant Location Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The patents generally relate to methods for monitoring the presence of a mobile station. The patents have all been asserted against Apple, Fibar Group, Nice Group, Samsung, and Generac Holdings.

The contests will expire on December 11, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 8738040 - claim 13

US 8934922 - claim 1

US 9042910 - claim 7

US 9119030 - claim 1

US 9485621 - claim 1

US 9622032 - claim 1

US 10009720 - claim 1