$4,000 awarded for Dominion Harbor entity, Columbia Peak Ventures, video patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Columbia Peak Ventures, LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group. The patents generally relate to smart TV software and video applications.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

US 9,367,296 - Synchronizing Application Programs

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Dinesh Swami

Winning Submissions: US 20120079095; US 4879648

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US 9,723,378 - Integrating Smart Tv Program Channels

Winners - Priti Dubey & Nitish Jaswal

Winning Submissions: KR 101044674; US 9271039; US 20160353175

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Magnetar Capital entity Togail Technologies 5G patent found invalid

On August 12, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,791,502, owned by Togail Technologies Ltd., a Magnetar Capital entity. The ’502 patent relates to error-handling procedures for system information requests in communications. It had been asserted against 3GPP devices from companies including TCL Technology, Apple, Google, Motorola, and Samsung.

View district court litigations by Togail Technologies. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen, Matt Beck, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019300

Magnetar/Atlantic IP entity, Croga Innovations, firewall patent challenged

On August 28, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,601,780, owned by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The '780 patent relates to a networked computer system that employs a combination of internal and external firewall mechanisms, along with virtualization techniques, to isolate secure LANs from untrusted internet sources. The patent has been asserted against IBM, Cisco, Fortinet, and Amazon.

View district court litigations by Croga Innovations. Unified is represented by Slater Matsil and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

NexGen semiconductor controller patent found invalid

On August 28, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of challenged claims 1, 5-7, and 13 of U.S. Patent 8,278,855 owned and asserted by NexGen Control Systems, LLC, an NPE. The '855 patent generally relates to control systems for electric motors. The patent was asserted against Infineon and NXP.

View district court litigations by NexGen. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019288

MDSP Technologies navigation patent found invalid

On August 26, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 9,239,376, owned and asserted by MDSP Technologies LLC. The ‘376 patent relates to determining the position and acceleration of a mobile device using doppler aided inertial navigation. It had been asserted against Google, Apple, Samsung, Garmin, and TomTom.

View district court litigations by MDSP Technologies. Unified was represented by Patrick Muldoon, John Baird, and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015299