Morris Routing network patent found invalid

On December 9, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all challenged claims of 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 was asserted against Verizon, Samsung, T-Mobile, and AT&T. 

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

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019911

Mimzi voice interaction patent challenge instituted

On December 4, 2025, five weeks 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 9,792,361, owned and asserted by Mimzi, LLC, an NPE. The ’361 patent relates to using a phone to record phone calls, meetings, and dictation, and to store associated metadata, audio, and/or speech-recognized text in a centralized, content-searchable repository. It has been asserted against Nissan, Ford, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz AG, Honda, and Subaru.

View district court litigations by Mimzi. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kyla Butler and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015642

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

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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

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$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

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US 9497290 - Adaptive HTTP Streaming

Winner - Nikko Quevada

Winning Submissions: US 8677005; US 20110096828

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