K.Mizra network patent challenge instituted

On July 8, 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 8,782,282, owned and asserted by K.Mizra LLC. The ‘282 patent relates to communications in a network management system. K.Mizra, an apparently funded entity that has brought suit on at least 35 patents worldwide, has asserted the ‘282 patent against Ciena Corporation. K.Mizra has asserted EP 2433141B1 against Niantic, and EP 2174201B1 against Samsung, both in Germany.

View U.S. district court litigations by K.Mizra. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019963

GEVC video codec patent revocation confirmed by EPO appeal

On July 3, 2025, the EPO's appellate board confirmed the decision to revoke EP 3151566. The EP ‘566 patent is owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The EP ’566 patent is part of a family purportedly essential to HEVC and part of the Access Advance patent pool. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

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

Davidson Kempner entity, QPrivacy, data security patent challenge instituted

On June 30, 2025, 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 11,816,249, owned and asserted by QPrivacy USA LLC, an NPE and a Davidson Kempner entity. The ‘249 patent relates to the management of private data without decrypting that data. The patent has been asserted against Cisco.

View district court litigations by QPrivacy. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019896

Unified files amicus in support of Motorola's mandamus petition in Fed. Cir.

On June 27, 2025, Unified filed an amicus in support of Motorola's mandamus petition challenging the Office's retroactive application of new rules related to discretionary denial. The brief urged the court to review the Office's use of ad hoc decisions to set its discretionary denial framework in lieu of formal rulemaking and its inconsistent application of its rules to similar facts.

Unified Patents is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud. Download the amicus brief below.

$2,000 for Nostromo location-based 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 8,559,970, owned and asserted by Nostromo Holdings LLC, an NPE. The '970 patent is generally directed to providing location-based information and notifications to a user's device, based on location, user preference settings, and conditions for triggering the information delivery. It is being asserted against ADT, Resideo, Ecobee, Walgreens, Starbucks, Sephora, Macy’s, and Fibar USA.

The contest will expire on July 31, 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. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to initially generate claim charts, and then researchers must add relevant figures and highlighting before submitting each chart. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.