Dominion Harbor entity, Columbia Peak, video surveillance patent challenge instituted

On October 17, 2024, only three weeks 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 of U.S. Patent 7,446,803, owned by Columbia Peak Ventures, LLC, an NPE and Dominion Harbor entity. The ‘803 patent relates to a system for annotating and searching video files.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019682

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$2,000 for Querytron Heggem search patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,849,707, asserted by Querytron Heggem LLC, an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner. The ‘707 patent relates generally to search engines and, more specifically, to methods for business-oriented search. It has been asserted against Alibaba, Fiverr, and Redfin Corp.

The contest will expire on December 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Wrinkl messaging patent challenged

On October 25, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,973,731, owned and asserted by Wrinkl, Inc. The ‘731 patent relates to a multi-pane group messaging interface. It has been asserted against Slack Technologies and Salesforce.

View district court litigations by Wrinkl. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

VirtaMove's Kubernetes / open source patent challenge instituted

On October 24, 2024, one month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 1 and 12 of U.S. Patent 7,784,058, owned and asserted by VirtaMove Corp (f/k/a Appzero Software Corp). an NPE. The ’058 patent relates to operating system libraries and instanced computing environments. It has been asserted against IBM, Google, HP, and Amazon. 

View district court litigations by VirtaMove Corp. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Matthew Beck, Michelle Aspen, and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019676