VDPP stitched image patent challenged

On March 18, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,426,452, owned and asserted by VDPP LLC, an NPE. The '452 patent is generally directed to image processing to form a combined image from multiple video streams. It has been asserted over 20 times with active cases against Mazda, Motorola Mobility, Mercedes-Benz, NEC, HP Inc., Razer, Honda, Ricoh, GM, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Ford.

View district court litigations by VDPP. Unified is represented by O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Fitistics fitness tracking patent found invalid

On March 19, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,185,738, owned and asserted by Fitistics, LLC, an NPE. The ‘738 patent is generally directed to tracking exercise using a handheld device to obtain data from an exercise machine or body monitoring device. The patent had been asserted against Huawei and Fossil.

View district court litigations by Fitistics. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Kelly Hughes.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015241

IP Edge entity, AdaptFlow, media serving patent found invalid

On March 19, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) issued a notice of intent to issue an ex parte reexamination certificate in RE90/015,248, cancelling all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,015,064, owned and asserted by AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The '064 patent generally relates to prefetching content based on an access pattern of a user on a network. The patent had been asserted against Roku.

View district court litigations by AdaptFlow. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015248.

$2,000 for Touchmusic distribution patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claims 1 and 2 of U.S. Patent 6,182,128, owned by Touchmusic Entertainment LLC, an NPE. The ‘128 patent relates to systems for distributing information, such as video-on-demand or pay-per-view systems. The patent has been asserted against Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

The contest will expire on May 18, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Adnexus advertising patent found invalid

On March 14, 2024, in less than 8 months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,719,101, owned and asserted by Adnexus, Inc., an NPE. The ‘101 patent relates to on-line advertising and has been asserted against Amazon, Meta Platforms, LinkedIn, Google, and eBay.

View district court litigations by Adnexus. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015262