The team at Unified is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against a patent owned by UBQS-IP LLC, an NPE and entity of Pueblo Nuevo LLC. Unified Patents, the top requester of ex parte reexaminations in recent years, will likely challenge its validity. The patent is generally related to a decentralized system allowing multiple users to edit the same document. UBQS-IP has sued Egnyte, Atlassian, Notion Labs, and Dropbox. For more details contact info@unifiedpatents.com.
Flash Uplink hard drive firmware patent challenged
On June 19, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,426,633 owned and asserted by Flash Uplink LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The ‘633 patent generally relates to updating disk-drive firmware with minimal downtime. It has been asserted against QNAP Systems and Lenovo.
View district court litigations by Flash Uplink. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jenn Bisk and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.
$4,000 for Transparent Wireless wireless patents prior art
Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Transparent Wireless Systems, LLC, an NPE. The '034 patent relates to a wireless parking payment and enforcement system for both street parking and closed garages. The '506 patent relates to smartphone-based access control for facilities, especially parking garages.
The contests will expire on July 18, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. 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.
US 9123034 - Wireless Parking Payment and Enforcement System
$6,000 awarded for Gaea data storage patents prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $6,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Gaea LLC, an NPE. The patents relate to storage devices with controller and memory that enforce storage policies for content handling. They have been asserted against Samsung and Meta.
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 10776023 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device
Winners - Brooklyn Sasumata, Matyas Rathonyi, Joshua Beck
Winning Submission: US 20080002272, US 9002795; Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Project Documents
US 11327669 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device
Winner - Guddu Yadav
Winning Submissions: SCSI OBSD Command Set Proposal
US 11907553 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device
Winners - Ketan Sachdeva, Umesh Kumar
Winning Submissions: US 7882320, US 8484736, Willow: A User-Programmable SSD
$4,000 for Digital River media access patents prior art
Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Digital River Inc., an NPE and entity of Danube Private Holdings II, LLC. The patents relate to account-based systems for controlling access to online media.
The contests will expire on July 11, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. 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.