Dialect natural language patent found invalid

On June 27, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,495,957, owned and asserted by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘957 patent relates to natural language human machine interactions using context information. The patent has been asserted against Amazon, Bank of America, and Samsung. 

View district court litigations by Dialect. Unified is represented by Patrick Muldoon, John Baird, and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015303

DynaIP entity, Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, IoT patent found invalid

On June 28, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,909,779, owned and asserted by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, LLC, an NPE and DynaIP entity.  The ’779 patent relates to methods for controlling devices in an environment. It has been asserted against over ten companies, including Carrier Global, Google, Monitronics International, Philips North America, and Ring.

View district court litigations by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and TJ Murphy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015264

Rothschild entity, Quantum Technology Innovations, media streaming patent challenged

On June 21, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,650,376, owned and asserted by Quantum Technology Innovations, LLC, an NPE and Leigh Rothschild entity. The '376 patent relates to the distribution of content over a network. It has been asserted against 11 companies, including Showtime Networks, Dish Network, Sirius XM, Pandora, Valve, and BroadwayHD.

View district court litigations by Quantum Technology. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Monticello Enterprises payment patent challenge instituted

On June 14, 2024, 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 11,468,497, owned and asserted by Monticello Enterprises LLC. The ‘497 patent relates to transmitting user payment data to a merchant device based on inputs received from a user. The patent has been asserted against Starbucks, Petco, and Macy's. 

View district court litigations by Monticello. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019491

Facet traffic recognition patent challenged

On June 20, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,671,328, owned and asserted by Facet Technology Corp., an NPE. The '328 patent relates to a system of assessing and classifying road signs depicted in a video stream. It has been asserted against General Motors, TomTom, Mobileye Global, and Here Global.

View district court litigations by Facet Technology. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.