The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 6,918,082, owned by Lone Star Document Management, LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘082 patent is generally related to a system for reviewing, versioning, and commenting on electronic documents in portable document format (PDF) delivered over a network, such as the internet. The patent has been recently asserted against HCL America, Dropbox, Document Logistix, IBM, Atlassian, and Oracle.
Ascend Innovations entity, Byteweavr, cloud data patent found invalid
On December 30, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling most of the claims of U.S. Patent 6,862,488, owned and asserted by Byteweavr, LLC, an NPE and Ascend Innovations entity. The ‘488 patent relates to automated validation and workflow management. It had been asserted against Databricks and Cloudera.
View district court litigations by Byteweavr. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019801
iScan2D Technologies device-pairing patent campaign - invalidity charts coming soon
The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 11,664,123, owned by iScan2D Technologies, LLC. The ‘123 patent is broadly directed to wirelessly pairing a “wearable activity device” and a “mobile device” with at least one “camera sensor” via a “color coded digital scannable media”. The patent has been asserted against Apple.
$2,000 awarded for IP Investments Group entity, eComm Innovations, web layout patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Mani Manikandan, Ketan Sachdeva, and Guddu Yadav, who shared an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,409,635, owned by eComm Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Investments Group. The '635 patent focuses on advancements in data processing, specifically aiming at improving layout and rendering techniques in web and print publishing.
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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Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted
On December 29, 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 (1-6, 12-17) of U.S. Patent 10,567,047, owned and asserted by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The '047 patent is generally directed to Wi-Fi 6 devices configured to information in the HE-SIG-A field of an HE MU PPDU to understand the configuration of the HE-SIG-B field when using full bandwidth MU-MIMO. This challenge is part of Unified’s Wi-Fi zone and was the fourth reexamination filing against Wilus this year.
View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015638