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On June 19, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,257,582, owned by Intellectual Ventures I LLC. The ‘582 patent relates to load balancing using multiple computer processors. It has been asserted against American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.
View district court litigations by Intellectual Ventures. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.
Craig Thompson, General Manager of Unified Consulting, presented recent developments over the Unified Patent Court and its handling of large FRAND cases during a CLE dinner in Austin, TX in April.
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) issued its first two substantive decisions on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) matters, and these recent developments show that the UPC is open to handling large FRAND cases, rule on them quickly, and deal with related aspects (for example, production orders, and confidentiality) in a practical manner.
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On June 16, 2025, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,315,747, another patent owned and asserted by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of New PP Licensing LLC. The ‘747 patent, formerly assigned to Blackberry Ltd., is generally directed to providing availability data in a messaging environment. It has been asserted against technology that sends availability data over Wi-Fi and also cellular networks developed by Match Group, Inc. Malikie Innovations has filed several other litigations funded by Key Patent Innovations Limited against networking communications, apps, and Wi-Fi devices.
View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Ellyar Barazesh with Baker Botts, and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and T.J. Murphy, in this proceeding.
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $14,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by OptiMorphix, Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various video optimization technologies. The patents have been asserted against Fortinet, Meta, Akamai Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, and Brightcove.
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 8230105 - Optimizing Media Data Transmission
Winners - Mani Manikandan, Dinesh Swami & Tanya Chauhan
Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 20090185619; US 8428148
US 8621061 - Adaptive Bitrate Management
Winners - Tanya Chauhan, Ritu Tyagi & Andrei Gilya
Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 20040240390; US 20080259834
US 8769141 - Streaming Media Optimization
Winners - Colin LaRose & Calvin Zhong
Winning Submissions: US 6704281; US 8428148
US 9191664 - Optimal Session Bitrate Allocation
Winners - Tanya Chauhan & Ekta Aswal
Winning Submissions: US 7554922; US 9544602; US 8606966
US 9621896 - Quality-Aware Video Optimization
Winners - Ekta Aswal & Mani Manikandan
Winning Submissions: EP 1841237; US 20110274162
US 9894361 - Framework for Quality-Aware Video Optimization
Winning Submissions: US 8885705; US 7876257; US 5909250
US 10123015 - Intermediary Video Optimizer
Winners - Suman Sharma & Andrei Gilya
Winning Submissions: US 8548045; US 9152875; US 8588297
US 10412388 - Quantization Parameter Adjustment
Winners - Dinesh Swami, Mani Manikandan & Nikko Quevada
Winning Submissions: US 8331438; US 8027384; US 5978029
On June 13, 2025, Unified filed its first ex parte reexamination proceeding in its new SEP Wi-Fi Zone against U.S. Patent 9,313,065, owned and asserted by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘065 patent is generally directed to OFDM transmissions that use a scattered pattern to transmit signals for two antennas at the same time. It has been asserted against "devices compliant with IEEE 802.11 standards" manufactured or sold by Nintendo, Vantiva, Sophos, and D-Link.
View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and James T. Pawlowski at Rothwell Figg, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.
