Wi-Fi 6

Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenged

On July 24, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,651,992, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The '992 patent relates to a wireless communication method for coexistence between a legacy wireless communication terminal and a non-legacy wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication environment. It has been asserted against Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) enabled network devices made by TP-Link and Askey Computer.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

Malikie Wi-Fi patent challenged

On July 17, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,395,899, another patent owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘899 patent relates to the negotiation of the prioritization of network management traffic by Wi-Fi stations and access points. This negotiation involves transmitting management frame quality of service (MFQ) policies and requests for changes to MFQ policies between stations and access points. Malikie Innovations has filed several other litigations funded by Key Patent Innovations Limited against networking communications, apps, and Wi-Fi devices.

View district court litigations by Malikie. Unified is represented by Stephen Cortiaus and Payam Rashidi of Slater Matsil, and in-house by Jessica L.A. Marks and T.J. Murphy in this proceeding.

Two Wilus Wi-Fi patents challenged

On June 30, 2026, Unified filed two ex parte reexamination proceedings against U.S. Patent 11,356,947 and U.S. Patent 12,167,415, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The '415 and '947 patents relate to allocation of bandwidth in wireless communications using a non-contiguous channel, based on information in HE-SIG-A and HE-SIG-B subfields in received packets. These technologies relate to Wi-Fi 6 enabled devices (802.11ax). The filings are part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in the SEP Wi-Fi Zone.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jason Wejnert and T.J. Murphy, in these proceedings.

Atlas Global Wi-Fi patent challenge granted

On June 22, 2026, 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 (1-20) of U.S. Patent 10,020,919, owned and asserted by Atlas Global Technologies, LLC, an NPE and Acacia Research entity. The ‘919 patent generally relates to sounding operations for identifying channel conditions in a wireless network based on Wi-Fi transmissions exchanged between an access point and wireless stations in the network. The patent is currently being asserted against HPE and Walmart, but has been asserted against several companies in the past whose products comply with the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard.

View district court litigations by Atlas Global. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016094

Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenged

On June 9, 2026, Unified filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,150,105, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. The '105 patent relates to wireless communication terminals and signaling, and more specifically to signaling information indicating circumstances in which operations based on the  Basic Service Set (BSS) color are not used. This challenge is part of Unified’s Wi-Fi zone and is the seventh filing against Wilus by Unified.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.