The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against claim 33 of U.S. Patent 7,482,916, owned by Wyoming Technology Licensing, LLC, an NPE and entity of Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘916 patent relates to an automatic vehicle turn-signal system. The patent has been asserted against General Motors and Toyota.
Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted
On March 10, 2026, five 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 11,284,475, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc.. The ‘475 patent is generally related to setting a Basic Service Set (BSS) color in a responsive Wi-Fi Physical Layer Protocol Data Units (PPDU) when a received PPDU does or does not include a trigger frame that indicates the BSS color. The '475 patent has not been asserted, but it is related to patents being used in litigation.
View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Vinu Raj, in these proceedings.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015943
Mimzi Stay Based in Part on Unified’s Reexam Granted in EDTX
On March 27, 2026, Magistrate Judge Roy Payne has granted the motion to stay the Eastern District of Texas litigation against Ford, Subaru, and Mercedes-Benz AG pending resolution of Unified’s ex parte reexamination challenging U.S. Patent 9,792,361 and the Mercedes reexaminations challenging U.S. Patent 9,792,361 and U.S. Patent 11,100,163. In addition, the cases against Honda, Hyundai, and Nissan have been voluntarily dismissed.
In October 2025, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against the '361 patent, owned and asserted by Mimzi, LLC, an NPE. The ’361 patent relates to using a phone to record phone calls, meetings, and dictation, and to store associated metadata, audio, and/or speech-recognized text in a centralized, content-searchable repository. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kyla Butler and Alyssa Holtslander.
OptimNet cloud patent challenged
On March 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,112,934, owned and asserted by OptimNet LLC, an NPE. The ‘934 patent generally relates to a content delivery networking method and apparatus that builds a content delivery overlay network for transferring media content to users. It has been asserted against Amazon Web Services and Amazon.com Services for the provision of cloud services.
View district court litigations by OptimNet. Unified is represented by James Stein and Anita Bhushan of Lee & Hayes, and by in-house counsel, Jason Wejnert and Alyssa Holtslander.
DynaIP entity, WirelessWerx IP, geotracking patent found invalid
On March 26, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all challenged claims 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.
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