$2,000 for KEEEX digital fingerprint 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 10,218,714, owned by KEEEX, an NPE. The '714 patent pertains to methods for verifying the integrity of digital data blocks and accessing them. Specifically, it describes a process that includes searching for a digital fingerprint within a data block, calculating a digital fingerprint by applying a specific function that excludes the bits of any found fingerprint, and verifying the authenticity by comparing the found fingerprint with the calculated one.

The contest will expire on April 12, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

InfoGation navigation patent found invalid

On March 6, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all claims of U.S. Patent 8,406,994, owned and asserted by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The '994 patent is generally directed to displaying maps on GPS receivers. It has been asserted against Toyota, Honda, BMW, and Changan Ford Automobile Company.

View district court litigations by InfoGation. Unified was represented by Slater Matsil, LLP, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019433

Fraud Free Transactions secure transactions patent challenged

On March 7, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,551,215, owned and asserted by Fraud Free Transactions, LLC. The ‘215 patent relates to fraud deterrence for secure transactions. It has been asserted against Okta and Ping Identity Corporation.

View district court litigations by Fraud Free Transactions. Unified is represented by Andrew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and T.J. Murphy.

IdeaHub video codec patent challenge instituted

On March 7, 2025, one month 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 10,904,539, owned by Ideahub Inc., an NPE. The ‘539 patent relates to video coding techniques that apply linear method (LM) prediction modes and particularly to the prediction of a chroma pixel value using a LM chroma mode or a low-pass-filtered LM chroma mode. It has been designated as essential to the VVC standard in the Access Advance’s VVC patent pool.

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

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019837

Dialect natural language patent found invalid

On March 6, 2025, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all original claims of U.S. Patent 9,495,957, owned and asserted by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘957 patent relates to natural language human machine interactions using context information. The patent had been asserted against Amazon, Bank of America, and Samsung. 

View district court litigations by Dialect. Unified was represented by Patrick Muldoon, John Baird, and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015303