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On April 26, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,468,497, owned and asserted by Monticello Enterprises LLC. The ‘497 patent relates to transmitting user payment data to a merchant device based on inputs received from a user. The patent has been asserted against Starbucks, Petco, and Macy's.
View district court litigations by Monticello. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.
On April 19, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,673,137, owned by Taasera Licensing LLC, an NPE and a Quest Patent Research Corporation entity. The ‘137 patent relates to methods of computer security using program validation. The patent has been asserted against several entities including Fortinet, Trellix, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro, Check Point, and CrowdStrike.
View district court litigations by Taasera Licensing. Unified is represented by Haynes & Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019388
On April 19, 2024, less than six 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 8,014,394, owned by Portsmouth Network Corporation, an NPE. The '394 patent is generally directed to methods and systems for delivering multicast traffic over communication networks. It has been asserted against Cisco and Juniper Networks.
View district court litigations by Portsmouth. Unified is represented by James Stein and Bruce Bower of Lee & Hayes, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and T.J. Murphy.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019441
On April 19, 2024, 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 7,586,871, owned by OptiMorphix, Inc. The ‘871 patent relates to providing services in a data communications system. It has been asserted against Amazon, Broadcom, Cisco, F5, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware.
View district court litigations by OptiMorphix. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Kelly Hughes.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019427
On April 18, 2024, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 3343781 B1, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The patent relates to context-adaptive binary entropy coding of video data. The EP‘781 patent is related to patents that have been deemed essential to 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 Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.
