Helios MPEG-DASH patent found invalid

On October 30, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all claims of U.S. Patent 10,362,130, owned and asserted by Helios Streaming LLC, an NPE and entity of Ideahub, Inc. The ‘130 patent is relevant to systems that are compliant with the MPEG-DASH standard; its claims are directed to providing adaptive HTTP streaming services using metadata of media content to ensure smooth playback. It has been asserted against Crackle, Starz, Showtime, Vudu, Fandango, Warner Brothers, and HBO.

View district court litigations by Helios. Unified was represented by Ryan Stronczer and Cono Carrano of Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019337

Acacia entity, Stingray IP, Wi-Fi patent challenged

On October 31, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,224,678, asserted by Stingray IP Solutions, an NPE and entity of Acacia Research Corporation. The ‘678 patent relates to detecting an intrusion in a network system. It is currently being asserted against Leedarson IoT Technology, Schlage Lock Company, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

View district court litigations by Stingray IP. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

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.