InterDigital AV1 patent held invalid after 2nd appeal in China

On June 29, 2026, in the second appeal of Unified’s challenge of InterDigital’s CN101491099, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court confirmed the invalidity of all challenged claims (1, 2, 5-9, 15, 19-21, 24-28, 34, 38-40, 43-48, 54, 57-59, 62-67, 73, and 76). The CN’099 patent was previously deemed essential in SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.

Unified was represented by Tao Chen, Yu Yan, and Peter Zhang of the Beijing Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case was managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

NovaCloud Licensing bit streaming patent challenged

On June 30, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,145,721 owned and asserted by NovaCloud Licensing LLC, an NPE. The ‘721 patent relates to a method of downloading a multimedia file from a server to a user device using, at least in part, a bandwidth-limited connection. It is currently asserted against Charter Communications, Comcast, Amazon, SAP, Meta, and Cox Communications.

View district court litigations by NovaCloud. Unified is represented by Steven Shipe of Barnes & Thornburg and by in-house counsel, Kyla Butler and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

Umbra Tech virtual network patent challenge granted

On June 26, 2026, 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 all challenged claims (1-20) of U.S. Patent 12,452,192, owned and asserted by Umbra Technologies Ltd. The ’192 patent is generally directed to virtual network systems where a control server sends a ranked list of access point servers to an endpoint. The endpoint device then uses this ranked list to select the access point server to which it will build a tunnel to the network. It has been asserted against Zscaler.

View district court litigations by Umbra Technologies. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016212

Innovation Technologies advertisement patent challenge granted

On June 24, 2026, 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 all challenged claims (1-20) of U.S. Patent 12,125,070, owned and asserted by Innovation Technologies Partners LP, an NPE and entity of MVRE LLC. The ’070 patent relates to a method for distributing an electronic content item for consumption with advertisements. It has been asserted against Hulu.

View district court litigations by Innovation Technologies. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kyla Butler and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016211

Nearby Systems patent validity challenges coming soon

The team at Unified is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against a patent owned by Nearby Systems LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. Unified Patents, the top requester of ex parte reexaminations in recent years, will likely challenge its validity. The patents generally relate to displaying location-based content on a digital map on a mobile device. Nearby Systems has sued Gap, Dollar Tree, Sephora, Foot Locker, Murphy USA, Starbucks, Valvoline, Walgreens, Lululemon, Chevron, and others. For more details contact info@unifiedpatents.com.