Jeffrey Gross entity, Hyperquery, application search patent challenge instituted

On December 17, 2024, six 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 9,529,918, owned and asserted by Hyperquery LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘918 patent relates to a system and method for searching for apps in a central repository based on the intent of the user. It has been asserted over ten times, with current cases against Sony and Roku.

View district court litigations by Hyperquery. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019721

VDPP video stitching patent challenged

On December 18, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,021,380, owned and asserted by VDPP LLC, an NPE. The specification of ‘380 patent discloses video methods for creating the optical illusion of perpetual motion, which the applicant deemed “Eternalism,” and to special glasses (called “3Deeps”) that can be used for creating three-dimensional effects from two-dimensional videos. The claims, however, are broadly drafted and have been asserted against various video zooming, image enhancement, and image combination technologies The patent has been asserted over 55 times but most recently against Ford, Kyocera, Amazon, MediaTek, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Mercedes-Benz, Razer, and others.

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

Lab Technology location tracking patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 9,578,570, owned by Lab Technology, LLC, an NPE. The ‘570 patent relates to a system and method for seamlessly switching a voice call from an Instant Messaging (IM) based voice network to a cellular voice network. It has been asserted against NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Intel, Quectel Wireless, Ericsson, Anritsu Corp., and Samsung.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

$2,000 awarded for Incent crypto patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nikko Quevada, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 8,639,566, owned by Incent Corp. (originally Reliable Business Group Inc). The ‘566 patent relates generally to a method and a system for providing promotion of commerce or contest to customers or participants and more specifically to a method and a system for providing promotions programs based upon the implementation of incentives. It is not a litigated patent but it is advertised: http://www.unitedmarket.io/about.html

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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

Cloud Byte cloud storage patent challenged

On December 16, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,739,544, owned and asserted by Cloud Byte LLC, an NPE. The ‘544 patent relates to a disk array rebuild system and method. It has been asserted against Dell.

View district court litigations by Cloud Byte. Unified is represented by Steven Shipe of Barnes & Thornburg and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jordan Rossen.