VE Opening cross-application search patent challenged

On September 18, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,916,079, owned by VE Opening LLC, an NPE. The '079 patent generally relates to methods of enabling information sharing between applications on a computer, and specifically performing a search for content across multiple applications and linking/displaying content from those applications as part of a search result list. The '079 patent is being asserted in litigation against Upland Software and others. All VE Opening cases are being litigated by David Bennett at Direction IP.

View district court litigations by VE Opening. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Kyla Butler, in this proceeding.

Malikie Wi-Fi patent challenge granted

On September 16, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 12,395,899, another patent owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. This overcame Malikie’s Pre-Order paper seeking denial. The ‘899 patent relates to the negotiation of the prioritization of network management traffic by Wi-Fi stations and access points. This negotiation involves transmitting management frame quality of service (MFQ) policies and requests for changes to MFQ policies between stations and access points.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Stephen Cortiaus and Payam Rashidi of Slater Matsil, and in-house by Jessica L.A. Marks and T.J. Murphy in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016482

Malikie cryptography patent challenge granted

On September 17, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,372,960, owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. This overcame Malikie’s Pre-Order paper seeking denial. The ‘960 patent relates to finite field calculations in cryptography. The patent has been asserted against Core Scientific and MARA Holdings. Malikie Innovations has filed several other litigations funded by Key Patent Innovations Limited against networking communications, apps, and Wi-Fi devices.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Jordan Rossen, Kelly Hughes, and Jenn Bisk in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016454

InstaCom communications patent challenge granted

On September 9, 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 of U.S. Patent 10,298,644, owned and litigated by InstaCom LLC, an NPE and entity of Elon Life LLC. The '644 patent relates to an instant communications system having established communication channels between communication devices.

View district court litigations by InstaCom. Unified is represented by in-house by Kyla Butler and Jordan Rossen in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016498

$4,000 for Sol IP MIMO 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 the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and asserted by Sol IP, LLC, an NPE. The patents relate to wireless data transmission in a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)/WLAN systems. They have been asserted against AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Qualcomm, Volkswagen, and others.

The contests will expire on October 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 9900067 - Transmitting and Receiving Data in a MIMO System

US 10090894 - Transceiving Data in a MIMO System