DynaIP entity, WirelessWerx IP, geotracking patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On November 24, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all challenged claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 7,317,927, owned by WirelessWerx IP LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals LLC entity. The '927 patent relates to location tracking and has been asserted in over 60 litigations against companies like Apple, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, MapleBear, FedEx, DHL Express, and Life360. The PTAB panel affirmed the rejections and refuted all of patent owner's points in their response.

View district court litigations by WirelessWerx. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015235

Ideahub (former ETRI) HEVC patent revocation confirmed by EPO appeal

On November 6, 2025, the EPO Board of Appeals confirmed the complete revocation of all claims of EP 3402195. The EP ‘195 patent is currently owned by Ideahub Inc. but was previously owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The EP ‘195 patent involves improving the efficiency of encoding and decoding methods with particular reference to determining quantization parameters for encoding and decoding object blocks such that the quantization parameters are adaptively set according to prevailing or neighboring conditions. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance and SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool.

Unified is represented by Dr. Andrew McGettrick and Dr. Susan Keston at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

SVV Technology display patent challenge instituted

On November 12, 2025, after Unified filed ex parte reexaminations on two SVV patents, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,740,397, owned and asserted by SVV Technology Innovations, Inc. The '397 patent generally relates to a light distribution system for display devices, more specifically drawn to a light guide member including a corrugated surface with transparent optical windows. The patent is currently asserted against Acer and ASUSTek accusing a large number of their products containing displays (i.e., laptops, tablets), and was previously asserted against Samsung and Micro-Star.

View district court litigations by SVV Technology Innovations. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Andrea Shoffstall, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015526

Fortress Investment entity, DivX, video streaming patent challenge instituted

On November 20, 2026, 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 11,611,785, owned and asserted by DivX LLC, an NPE and entity of Fortress Investment Group LLC. The ‘785 patent is generally directed to encoding video at different bit rates and evaluating the quality to provide the lowest bitrate at which the highest quality video can be achieved for a given resolution and frame rate. It has been asserted against Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for their provision of streaming content. The ‘785 patent is relevant to MPEG-DASH and streaming providers generally.

View district court litigations by DivX. Unified is represented by Jonathan Bowser and Adam Erickson at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015530

Malikie messaging patent challenge instituted

On November 10, 2025, four weeks 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 10,779,156, another patent owned and asserted by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘156 patent, formerly assigned to Blackberry Ltd., is directed to a mobile device communicating with a server to retrieve a pending data message (i.e., email) after the device receives an enable message, which indicates that the pending data message is available. It has been asserted against Match and Bumble. 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 Chris Schmidt and Eric Buresh of Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015570