Magnetar/Atlantic IP entity, Croga Innovations, firewall patent challenge instituted

On November 21, 2024, 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 all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,601,780, owned by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The '780 patent relates to a networked computer system that employs a combination of internal and external firewall mechanisms, along with virtualization techniques, to isolate secure LANs from untrusted internet sources. The patent has been asserted against IBM, Cisco, Fortinet, and Amazon.

View district court litigations by Croga Innovations. Unified is represented by Slater Matsil and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019638

Fractus LTE antenna patent challenge instituted

On November 7, 2024, 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 all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,674,887, owned and asserted by Fractus S.A., an NPE. The ‘887 patent generally relates to an antenna design for mobile devices. The patent has been asserted against ADT.

View district court litigations by Fractus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and T.J. Murphy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019664

Anonymous Media ad monitoring patent challenge instituted

On October 28, 2024, less than three months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,756,622, owned by Anonymous Media Research Holdings, LLC. The ‘622 patent relates to media monitoring and measurement systems. The patent has been asserted against Samsung and Roku.

View district court litigations by Anonymous Media Research. Unified is represented by Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019616

Dominion Harbor entity, Columbia Peak, video surveillance patent challenge instituted

On October 17, 2024, only three weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,446,803, owned by Columbia Peak Ventures, LLC, an NPE and Dominion Harbor entity. The ‘803 patent relates to a system for annotating and searching video files.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019682

VirtaMove's Kubernetes / open source patent challenge instituted

On October 24, 2024, one month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 1 and 12 of U.S. Patent 7,784,058, owned and asserted by VirtaMove Corp (f/k/a Appzero Software Corp). an NPE. The ’058 patent relates to operating system libraries and instanced computing environments. It has been asserted against IBM, Google, HP, and Amazon. 

View district court litigations by VirtaMove Corp. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Matthew Beck, Michelle Aspen, and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019676