The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 7,812,889, owned by Control Sync Systems LLC, an NPE and entity of Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘889 patent generally relates to a control system aimed at synchronizing video and audio parameters across display and play devices. The patent is currently asserted against Sony, LG, Vizio, TTE Technology, and E&S International Enterprises.
Light Guide Innovations backlight patent challenged
On December 4, 2025, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,638,378, another patent owned and asserted by Light Guide Innovations, LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The ’378 patent relates to a light emitting apparatus and is drawn to a lens having a particular shape. It has been asserted against Walmart, TCL, Hisense, and Samsung.
View district court litigations by Light Guide Innovations. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.
$4,000 awarded for Adeia Technologies mixed media patents prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various mixed media technologies. They have been asserted against Disney.
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 8542705 - Identifying Key Frames within Multiple Media Streams
Winners - Ekta Aswal & Ujjwal Kumar Jha
Winning Submission: US 20060080724; US 20060200576
US 9762639 - Dynamic Chunk Manipulation for Streaming Mixed Media
Winners - Ekta Aswal & Tanya Chauhan
Winning Submissions: US 9438861; US 20110072075; US 20080133766; CN 100581111-C
$4,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies.
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 8378862 - Efficient Data Compression
Winner - Ekta Aswal
Winning Submission: US 7265692
US 9497290 - Adaptive HTTP Streaming
Winner - Nikko Quevada
Winning Submissions: US 8677005; US 20110096828
DynaIP entity, WirelessWerx IP, geotracking patent confirmed invalid by PTAB
On November 24, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all challenged claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 7,317,927, owned by WirelessWerx IP LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals LLC entity. The '927 patent relates to location tracking and has been asserted in over 60 litigations against companies like Apple, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, MapleBear, FedEx, DHL Express, and Life360. The PTAB panel affirmed the rejections and refuted all of patent owner's points in their response.
View district court litigations by WirelessWerx. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015235