Mel NavIP speech recognition patent found invalid

On October 29, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,060,368, owned and asserted by Mel NavIP, LLC. The '368 patent is generally directed to navigation and speech recognition for a vehicle. The patent had been asserted against Toyota, GM, and Hyundai.

View district court litigations by Mel NavIP. Unified was represented by Jessica Kaiser and Tyler Knox of Perkins Coie, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019326

Monticello Enterprises payment patent found invalid

On November 7, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,468,497, owned and asserted by Monticello Enterprises LLC. The ‘497 patent relates to transmitting user payment data to a merchant device based on inputs received from a user. The patent has been asserted against Starbucks, Petco, and Macy's. 

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

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019491

Velos Media video codec patent challenged

On November 14, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,955,171, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '171 patent is generally directed to the selection of a set of prediction modes for encoding and decoding video. The patent explains that conventional methods use only one set of prediction modes, and that by providing additional prediction sets with different directions, rather than a single prediction set, efficiency can be increased. The ‘171 patent is a listed patent in Velos’ global patent assets.

Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Adam Erickson of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

IP Edge entity Communication Advances camera patent found invalid

On November 5, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all claims of U.S. Patent 8,823,826, owned by Communication Advances LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘826 patent was asserted against GM in one of IP Edge’s first litigation campaigns after three of the lawyers associated with the NPE were referred for discipline by Delaware Chief Judge Connolly for violating professional conduct rules. The patent is directed to digital cameras and image processing methods for digital cameras where an application is triggered when the subject’s eye-gazing direction meets an eye-gazing criterion.

View district court litigations by Communication Advances. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019430

$2,000 for Jeffrey Gross entity, AttestWave, networking patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 29 of U.S. Patent 7,895,643, asserted by AttestWave, LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘643 patent addresses trusted operations in computer networks and focuses on assuring trusted flows of communications by enforcing compliance with defined specifications. It has been asserted against Sophos, BlackBerry, SOTI, Honeywell, and Cortado Mobile Solutions.

The contest will expire on January 19, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.