IP Investments Group entity, DataCloud Technologies, firewall patent challenged

On November 25, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,370,457, owned by DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ’457 patent relates to network communication through a virtual domain. It has been asserted in over 15 district court litigations, most recently against SonicWall, Zscaler, and Palo Alto Networks.

View district court litigations by DataCloud Technologies. Unified is represented by Slater Matsil and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

Intellectual Discovery video codec patent challenged

On November 22, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,432,675, owned by Intellectual Discovery, an NPE. The ’675 Patent relates to a decoding method that uses most-probable-candidate modes for performing intraprediction.

Unified is represented by Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

Magnetar/Atlantic IP entity, Croga Innovations, firewall patent challenge instituted

On November 21, 2024, two months 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 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.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019638

VDPP video codec patent held invalid

On November 19, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling claims 26 and 27 of U.S. Patent 9,699,444, owned and asserted by VDPP LLC, an NPE. The '444 patent generally relates to processing image frames from a video stream and generating bridge frames for motion smoothing. The patent has been asserted over 25 times against several including Microsoft, Vizio, Lenovo, Roku, Philips, Panasonic, Sharp, and currently against Subaru, Optoma, and Continental.

View district court litigations by VDPP. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015245.

$22,000 for AutoConnect vehicle patents prior art

Unified Patents added eleven new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to vehicle ecosystems.

The contests will expire on December 22, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 8793034 - Gesture Recognition for On-Board Vehicle Display

US 9020697 - Vehicle-based Multimode Discovery

US 9098367 - Self-configuring Vehicle Console Application Store

US 9123186 - Remote Control of Associated Vehicle Devices

US 9140560 - In-cloud Connection for Car Multimedia

US 9173100 - On Board Vehicle Network Security

US 9147296 - User Interaction and Automation

US 9147297 - Infotainment Systems

US 9290153 - Vehicle-based Multimode Discovery

US 11163931 - Personalized Vehicle Settings

US 12039243 - User Profile Exchange via Vehicle-Supported Communications