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AiPi affiliate Pedersen message distribution patent confirmed invalid by Fed. Circuit

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On March 26, 2026, the Federal Circuit's written opinion affirmed the PTAB’s decision in IPR2023-00029, challenging claims 1 and 14-17 of U.S. Patent 6,965,920. Owned and asserted by Peter Henrik Pedersen, believed to be associated with AiPi Solutions, the '920 patent is generally directed to the specification and management of how messages are distributed to recipients. The ’920 patent was asserted against several including Zoho Corp., Ziff Davis, Intuit, Salesforce, Blackbaud, Constant Contact, Monday.com, Zendesk, Aurea Software, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Adobe, Wix.com, and others.

View district court litigations by Pedersen. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. The PTAB case was initially handled by Jon Bowser, Angela Oliver, and Michael McCarty of Haynes and Boone. The case was brought fully in-house once it was appealed and handled by Kelly Hughes and Alyssa Holtslander.

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Athena Security firewall patent campaign - invalidity charts coming soon

The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 7,702,742 and U.S. Patent 8,250,357 owned by Athena Security, LLP, an NPE. The patents relate to network interfaces that enables remote programmed I/O over a lossy network and have been asserted against Amazon and Dell.

Dominion Harbor entity, Bunker Hill, EV battery patent challenged

On March 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,914,365, asserted by Bunker Hill Technologies, an NPE and entity of Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC. The ’365 patent generally relates to a power electronic charging apparatus for rapidly charging a DC energy storage device. It has been asserted against Ford, Toyota, and Nissan.

View district court litigations by Bunker Hill. Unified is represented by Mark Lang and Nathan Johnson of Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Alyssa Holtslander.

Another Atlas Global Wi-Fi patent challenged

On March 27, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,020,919, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘919 patent generally relates to sounding operations for identifying channel conditions in a wireless network based on Wi-Fi transmissions exchanged between an access point and wireless stations in the network. The patent is currently being asserted against HPE, but has been asserted against several companies in the past whose products comply with the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and Jessica L.A. Marks.

Koyo Licensing sensitive display patent prior art found

The team at Unified IP Services used Pearl to successfully identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 9,116,598, owned by Koyo Licensing LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The ‘598 patent relates to technology allowing the detection of taps, hovers, and gestures on or above a display, integrating mechanics of sensing technologies. The patent has been asserted against Samsung.

The prior art was found and charted by Alejandro Borge and Oscar Jarquin of Unified IP Services and Elaine Chow of Unified Patents.

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