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On February 28, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,497,469, owned and asserted by Velos Media, an NPE. The ‘469 patent relates to a device for indicating information about a leading picture for decoding images at a random access point.
Unified is represented by Drew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks.
On January 10, 2023, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, canceling claims 1, 3, and 6 of U.S. Patent 7,047,564, owned by PacSec3, an NPE represented by Bill Ramey. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member. NACAR IP was also formed in early 2020 with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), a patent monetization company, identified as its managing member. The ‘564 patent had been asserted against F5 Networks, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Watchguard Technologies.
View district court litigation by PacSec3. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.
On December 2, 2022, just one month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,726,822, owned and asserted by SoundStreak Texas LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The ’822 patent is directed to simultaneously establishing high- and low- quality data formats for streaming and storing digital content during a live event. The patent is currently being asserted against Fujifilm Holdings.
View district court litigations by SoundStreak Texas. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015153.
On November 28, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of claims of U.S. Patent 9,207,924, owned by Aprese Systems Texas. The ‘924 patent relates generally to management of applications and/or services based on contextual information. It had been asserted against Toyota, Nissan, and Audi.
View district court litigations by Aprese. Unified was represented by Cono Carrano and Ryan Stronczer of Akin Gump and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014711.
On November 18, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of claims 1, 4-6, and 9-11 of U.S. Patent 9,578,040, owned and asserted by Orbit Licensing, an IP Edge entity. The '040 patent is generally directed to packet communications, including determining whether a service request is authorized or not. The '040 patent has been asserted 10 times, including against the SPF protocol (an open standard of the IETF) of several companies such as EidosMedia, Red Hat, OnApp, Akamai, Tencent, Limelight Networks, Wowza Media, CodePen, Velocix, and The MathWorks.
View district court litigation by Orbit Licensing. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014897.
