Unified’s Gatekeeper reexam results in litigation stay

In Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc. v. Darktrace, Inc. (4:2024-cv-00723), the court has ordered that all proceedings are stayed pending the PTO’s final decision in Unified Patents’ ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 9,032,038. The Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s reexamination request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 1-6, 10-28, and 32-45 of the ‘038 patent, owned and asserted by Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc., an NPE and entity of AiPi Solutions. On March 17, 2025, the examiner issued a non-final Office Action against the challenged claims.

The ‘038 patent relates to systems and methods for alerting a user of conflicting recipients when sending electronic communications. It has been asserted several times, but most recently against Darktrace, Forcepoint, and Trellix.

Morris Routing network patent challenged

On April 10, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 12,058,042, owned and asserted by Morris Routing Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The ‘042 patent relates to path-based data routing in a network. It is currently being asserted against Verizon, Samsung, T-Mobile, and AT&T. 

View district court litigations by Morris Routing. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

Another InfoGation navigation patent challenged

On April 8, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,898,003, owned and asserted by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The '003 patent is generally directed to displaying maps on GPS receivers. It is currently being asserted against Volvo, Nissan, Mazda, and Hyundai. It was also previously asserted against Toyota, Honda, BMW, and Ford.

View district court litigations by InfoGation. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and T.J. Murphy, in this proceeding.

Jeffrey Gross entity, Lattice Technologies, alarm monitoring patent challenge instituted

On April 9, 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 8,098,153, owned and asserted by Lattice Technologies LLC, a Jeffrey Gross entity. The ‘153 patent relates to an emergency response system that cycles through contacts in an order of priority until reaching someone. They have asserted this patent against at least a dozen companies including Alarm.com, Alert360, Amazon, Comcast, and Vivint.

View district court litigations by Lattice Technologies. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Jake Rosvold of Rothwell Figg, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Andrea Shoffstall.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019870

$500 awarded for Omni MedSci medical device patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nikko Quevada, who was awarded $500 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,055,868, owned and asserted by Omni MedSci, Inc., an NPE. The ‘868 patent focuses on a medical diagnostic system controlled by voice commands. It has been asserted against Samsung and Whoop.

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.

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