Atlantic IP entity, Foras Technologies, parallel processor patent found invalid

On July 26, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims 1-2, 5-18, and 21-30 of U.S. Patent 7,627,781, owned and asserted by Foras Technologies, Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The ‘781 patent relates to lockstep processor technology where two processors are paired together, and the two processors perform exactly the same-operations and the results-are compared.(e.g., with an XOR gate). The patent has been asserted against Toyota and Nissan.

View district court litigations by Foras Technologies. Unified was represented by Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019244

CellSpinsoft data transfer patent challenge instituted

On July 25, 2024, 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 the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,904,030, owned and asserted by Cellspinsoft, Inc., an NPE. The ‘030 patent is generally directed to uploading data to a remote server, where the data comes from a device that does not have network connectivity. The data is transferred from the capturing device to a mobile device via Bluetooth and then the mobile device uploads the data. The system is set up so that the capturing device can notify the mobile device when new data is available to upload. It has been asserted against LifeScan, Senseonics, and ByteDance.

View district court litigations by Cellspinsoft. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks, Alyssa Holtslander, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019499

DynaIP entity, Autonomous IP, self-driving patent challenge instituted

On July 25, 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 10,127,818, owned and asserted Autonomous IP, LLC, an NPE and DynaIP entity. The '818 patent is directed to autonomous vehicle navigation including detecting and avoiding emergency vehicles. It has been asserted against Tesla and Lyft.

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

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019534

Factor2 Multimedia authentication patent challenged

On July 24, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,083,285, owned and asserted by Factor2 Multimedia Systems, LLC, an NPE. The ‘285 patent relates to two-factor authentication methods and systems. It is currently being asserted against a variety of companies, from financial institutions like Washington Federal Bank and Texas Capital Bank to large companies like Amazon, Snap, and TikTok.

View district court litigations by Factor2 Multimedia. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

Unified Patents represented at WIPO Assemblies 2024

Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel of Unified Patents, joined others as a panelist at an event hosted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) during the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO 2024. The panel, “Investor-funded Litigation as a Threat to the Patent System,” was moderated by Vishal Amin, Chair of ICC Global IP Commission. Among the many great speakers and panelists, Lisa Jorgenson, Deputy Director General of Patents & Technology at WIPO, gave the introduction and Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, was the keynote speaker.

Hundreds of delegates from WIPO’s 193 Member States joined the July 9-17 WIPO Assemblies to negotiate the future of the global intellectual property (IP) ecosystem and WIPO’s activities in promoting the economic, social and cultural development of all countries.