On February 25, 2021, the USPTO granted Unified's request for ex parte reexamination, finding substantial questions of patentability for all claims of U.S. Patent 6,275,166, owned by Karamelion LLC, an NPE and affiliate of IP Edge. This order comes just under three weeks from the filing date. This patent relates to relaying communications to appliances from a central computer and has been asserted against smart home products in over 40 district court litigations.

View district court litigations by Karamelion. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/019,009, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.