$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Conexus, network security patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,812,497, owned and asserted by Conexus LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '497 patent details systems and methods for detecting network security threats through application data flow and connection lineage tracing within enterprise, cloud, and IoT environments. It focuses on collecting connection and application execution information, tracking users, and machines involved to identify suspicious activities. It has been asserted against Splunk, Rapid7, and Wallarm.

The contest will expire on September 6, 2025. 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.

$4,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies.

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 9661104 - HTTP Streaming

Winner - Ganesan Rajamanickam

Winning Submissions: US 9628536; US 10432683

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US 10778989 - Rolling Intra Prediction for Image and Video Coding

Winners - Andrei Gilya

Winning Submissions: US 20150117531; US 10244262; US 9819934

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Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, Wi-Fi patent challenged

On July 28, 2025, continuing in the ongoing efforts in the new SEP Wi-Fi Zone, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,193,986, owned and asserted by Arlington Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group. The ‘986 patent is generally directed to communications between a master wireless network device and one or more slave network devices using a medium access protocol such as the MAC protocol. It was asserted against Comcast and currently against T-Mobile and Sprint on products that are wireless access points configured to support 802.11ax.

View district court litigations by Arlington Technologies. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold at Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

Malikie MPEG-DASH related patent challenged

On July 28, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,392,598, owned and asserted by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The '598 patent is generally directed to streaming media content to user devices, and allowing the user devices to control the format of the media downloaded based on conditions such as available bandwidth. Although not declared to any video codec standard, this patent is relevant to MPEG-DASH.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Dagim Tilahun and Jonathan Bowser at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

AutoConnect Holdings vehicle app management patent challenge instituted

On July 24, 2025, less than 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 of U.S. Patent 9,098,367, owned and asserted by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The ‘367 patent is directed to an application store on board a vehicle. It has been asserted against GM and Ford.

View district court litigations by AutoConnect. Unified is represented by Cono Carrano and Ryan Stronczer of Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019983