The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 7,702,742 and U.S. Patent 8,250,357 owned by Athena Security, LLP, an NPE. The patents relate to network interfaces that enables remote programmed I/O over a lossy network and have been asserted against Amazon and Dell.
Dominion Harbor entity, Bunker Hill, EV battery patent challenged
On March 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,914,365, asserted by Bunker Hill Technologies, an NPE and entity of Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC. The ’365 patent generally relates to a power electronic charging apparatus for rapidly charging a DC energy storage device. It has been asserted against Ford, Toyota, and Nissan.
View district court litigations by Bunker Hill. Unified is represented by Mark Lang and Nathan Johnson of Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Alyssa Holtslander.
Another Atlas Global Wi-Fi patent challenged
On March 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,020,919, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘919 patent generally relates to sounding operations for identifying channel conditions in a wireless network based on Wi-Fi transmissions exchanged between an access point and wireless stations in the network. The patent is currently being asserted against HPE, but has been asserted against several companies in the past whose products comply with the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard.
View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and Jessica L.A. Marks.
Koyo Licensing sensitive display patent prior art found
The team at Unified IP Services used Pearl to successfully identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 9,116,598, owned by Koyo Licensing LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The ‘598 patent relates to technology allowing the detection of taps, hovers, and gestures on or above a display, integrating mechanics of sensing technologies. The patent has been asserted against Samsung.
The prior art was found and charted by Alejandro Borge and Oscar Jarquin of Unified IP Services and Elaine Chow of Unified Patents.
Identified Prior Art
$2,000 for Oso IP entity, Aloft Media, hyperlink patent prior art
Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 23 of U.S. Patent 10,372,793, owned by Aloft Media, LLC, an NPE and entity of Oso IP, LLC. The '793 patent relates to computer-implemented techniques for improving the usefulness of hyperlinks in web pages. The patent has been in several complaints seeking declaratory judgments of non-infringement, invalidity, and unenforceability filed by Nouryon USA and Krueger International.
The contest will expire on May 2, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for the contest. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.