$14,000 for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art

Unified Patents added eight new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies.

The contests will expire on May 31, 2025. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 8244901 - Client Controlled Sessionless Adaptation

US 8378862 - Efficient Data Compression

US 8392598 - Client Controlled Sessionless Adaptation

US 8411742 - Iterative Coding for MPEG and H.264 Video Compression

US 9497290 - Adaptive HTTP Streaming

US 9661104 - HTTP Streaming

US 10778989 - Rolling Intra Prediction for Image and Video Coding

$3,500 awarded for Morris Routing network patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $3,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Morris Routing Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to routing methods, systems, and computer program products. They have been asserted against Samsung.

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 10,419,335 - Routing Based on a Path-Based Protocol Address

Winners: Andrei Gilya & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: EP 0455959; US 8744419; US 20100265955

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US 10,594,594 - Routing Methods

Winning Submissions: US 8737267; US 8983468; US 7668082

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US 12,058,042 - Network Path Routing Methods

Winners: S.P. Ragupathy & Neeraj Kumar

Winning Submissions: US 7035259; US 20120093164; US 20030193944

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Davidson Kempner entity, QPrivacy, data security patent challenged

On April 1, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,816,249, owned and asserted by QPrivacy USA LLC, an NPE and a Davidson Kempner entity. The ‘249 patent relates to the management of private data without decrypting that data. The patent has been asserted against Cisco.

View district court litigations by QPrivacy. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

Factor2 Multimedia authentication patent challenge instituted

On April 2, 2025, 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 the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,870,453, owned and asserted by Factor2 Multimedia Systems, LLC, an NPE. The ‘453 patent relates to two-factor authentication methods and systems. It has been asserted against Snap, U.S. Bank National Association, Amazon, Comerica Bank, TikTok, Regions Financial, Texas Capital Bancshares, Washington Federal Bank, and Early Warning Services.

View district court litigations by Factor2 Multimedia. Unified is represented by Bruce Bower and James Stein at Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019846

Touchstream Technologies media controller patent challenge instituted

On April 4, 2025, three weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,468,118, owned and asserted by Touchstream Technologies, Inc., an NPE. The ‘118 patent relates to operating a television set or other display remotely from a personal computing device, such as a mobile phone. It is currently being asserted against Yamaha and was previously asserted against VIZIO.

View district court litigations by Touchstream. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Kelly Hughes, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019879