Longhorn Automotive measurement controller patent challenge instituted

On April 22, 2025, 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 7,987,002, owned and asserted by Longhorn Automotive Group LLC, an NPE and entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The ‘002 patent relates to a distributed measurement system for obtaining measurements and simulations in a distributed control system. It is currently being asserted against Volkswagen, Mazda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Volvo, and Nissan.

View district court litigations by Longhorn Automotive. Unified is represented by Ellyar Barazesh at Baker Botts, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019867

$1,000 awarded for Morris Routing network patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Calvin Zhong, who was awarded $1,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 11,196,660, owned by Morris Routing Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The ‘660 patent generally relates to routing methods, systems, and computer program products. It has been asserted against Samsung.

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.

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Eric Zautner entity, Conexus, web applications patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 11,736,499, owned and asserted by Conexus LLC, an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner. The '499 patent focuses on monitoring web applications for potentially malicious code execution, employing a model of legitimate behavior to identify anomalies. It details a thorough process of capturing and analyzing network and application activities to safeguard against security threats that bypass traditional defenses. It has been asserted against Datadog and eSentire.

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.

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$4,000 awarded for STT WebOS web-based communication patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by STT WebOS, Inc. The patents relate to web based control management systems and communications. They have been asserted against ByteDance.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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.

US 10,686,797 - Information Exchange Over a Web Based Environment

Winners: Ritu Tyagi, Calvin Zhong & Rekha Bansiwal

Winning Submissions: WO 2001039007; US 7133901; US 6438632

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US 11,336,754 - Concurrent Web Based Multitasking Support

Winners: Ritu Tyagi, Ganesan Rajamanickam & Andrei Gilya

Winning Submissions: US 6990534; US 7814200; US 20030135587

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Dynamic IP Deals entity, AK Meeting, groupware patent challenged

On April 17, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,180,765, owned and asserted by AK Meeting, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals entity. The ‘765 patent relates to computer-supported cooperative work, also known as groupware, and has been asserted against Adobe.

View district court litigations by AK Meeting IP. Unified is represented by Stephen Cortiaus and Ava Chung of Slater Matsil, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.