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On February 14, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,734,739, owned and asserted by Weple IP Holdings LLC, an NPE and entity of MAF Holdings LLC. The ‘739 patent relates to a system and process for coordinating streaming content or messages. It has been asserted against Meta Platforms Inc.
View district court litigations by Weple IP. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $10,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to vehicle ecosystems. These patents have been asserted against Ford and Toyota.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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.
US 9020697 - Vehicle-based Multimode Discovery
Winner - Dinesh Swami
Winning Submissions: US 20070124045
US 9123186 - Remote Control of Associated Vehicle Devices
Winner - Nisha Devi & Rama Krishna
Winning Submissions: US 8600581; US 9064101; US 20080245598
US 9140560 - In-cloud Connection for Car Multimedia
Winners - Mani Manikandan & Calvin Zhong
Winning Submissions: US 9532207; US 9916071; US 20020152264
US 9147296 - User Interaction and Automation
Winners - Calvin Zhong & Mani Manikandan
Winning Submissions: US 9532207; US 6584389; US 20080312796
US 9173100 - On Board Vehicle Network Security
Winning Submissions: US 9094386; US 8341298; US 20190020985
US 9290153 - Vehicle-based Multimode Discovery
Winner - Ekta Aswal
Winning Submissions: JP 2006005744; US 20080287064; US 10776103
US 11163931 - Personalized Vehicle Settings
Winning Submissions: US 9663067; US 9064101; US 20220036256
US 12039243 - User Profile Exchange via Vehicle-Supported Communications
Winners - Dinesh Swami & Nikko Quevada
Winning Submissions: US 6775603; US 20140303837; US 9663067
On February 21, 2025, less than 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 6,862,488, owned and asserted by Byteweavr, LLC, an NPE and Ascend Innovations entity. The ‘488 patent relates to automated validation and workflow management. It has been asserted against Databricks and Cloudera.
View district court litigations by Byteweavr. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Michelle Aspen.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019801
On February 21, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against claims 11-17 of U.S. Patent 7,249,262, owned and asserted by BrowserKey LLC, an NPE. The '262 patent generally relates to a method of restricting data access to a server by unauthorized client machines. It has been asserted against Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab.
View district court litigations by BrowserKey. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.
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 10,593,205, owned and asserted by Navog LLC, an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner. The '205 patent relates to a GPS monitoring and alarm system that would warn truckers, bus and RV drivers, approaching underpasses, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, and other structures of insufficient clearance for their vehicle. It has been asserted against Garmin, TeleType Co., and Sygic.
The contest will expire on March 31, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
