Ascend Innovation entity, Accessify, communications patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 7,197,640, owned by Accessify LLC, an NPE and entity of Ascend Innovation Management, LLC. The '640 patent relates generally to the use of identification codes in the handling and management of communications.

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

$10,000 for Adeia Technologies mixed media patents prior art

Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various mixed media technologies. They have all been asserted against Disney.

The contests will expire on June 1, 2025. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 8280987 - Cloud Data Persistence Engine

US 8542705 - Identifying Key Frames within Multiple Media Streams

US 9762639 - Dynamic Chunk Manipulation for Streaming Mixed Media

US 9860595 - Episode Tracking in an Interactive Media Environment

US 10165324 - Episode Tracking in an Interactive Media Environment

$4,000 for Polaris PowerLED memory controller patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Polaris PowerLED Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various nonvolatile memory technologies. The ‘085 patent has been asserted against Western Digital and is involved in a declaratory judgement action with Micron.

The contests will expire on May 1, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 8195878 - Managing Storage Using a Solid State Drive (SSD)

US 9183085 - Plurality of Error Correction Coding Schemes in a Flash Drive

Unified’s Gatekeeper reexam results in litigation stay

In Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc. v. Darktrace, Inc. (4:2024-cv-00723), the court has ordered that all proceedings are stayed pending the PTO’s final decision in Unified Patents’ ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 9,032,038. The Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s reexamination request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 1-6, 10-28, and 32-45 of the ‘038 patent, owned and asserted by Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc., an NPE and entity of AiPi Solutions. On March 17, 2025, the examiner issued a non-final Office Action against the challenged claims.

The ‘038 patent relates to systems and methods for alerting a user of conflicting recipients when sending electronic communications. It has been asserted several times, but most recently against Darktrace, Forcepoint, and Trellix.

Morris Routing network patent challenged

On April 10, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,058,042, owned and asserted by Morris Routing Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The ‘042 patent relates to path-based data routing in a network. It is currently being asserted against Verizon, Samsung, T-Mobile, and AT&T. 

View district court litigations by Morris Routing. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.