Quest entity Taasera cyber security patent challenge instituted

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

Portsmouth Network Corp communication patent challenge instituted

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

OptiMorphix network services patent challenge instituted

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

Another GEVC HEVC patent revoked in EPO

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.

$4,000 awarded for S3G Technologies software modifying patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by S3G Technology LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to a computerized system for efficiently modifying remote software. The patents have been asserted against over 25 companies and most recently against The TJX Companies and Luxottica of America.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

US 9940124 - Efficient Modification of Remote Software

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: EP 1980986 A2

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US 10261774 - Efficient Modification of Remote Software

Winners - Dan Lin & Ganesan Rajamanickam

Winning Submissions: US 10585982; US 20080267117

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