AutoNavigare mobile app control patent challenge instituted

On March 27, 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 9,288,665, owned and asserted by AutoNavigare, LLC. The ‘665 patent relates to controlling applications on a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, using an in-vehicle control system. It is currently being asserted against Toyota.

View district court litigations by AutoNavigare. 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/90019829

$2,000 awarded for Empire IP entity, Dynamic Data Innovations, dataset patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami, Andrei Gilya, and Calvin Zhong, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,632,676, asserted by Dynamic Data Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. The ‘643 patent relates to systems and methods for management of object datasets and for rending instructions to dynamically update a graphical user interface (GUI) to present a subset of the object dataset. It has been asserted against Old Navy and TravisMathew, LLC.

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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$3,000 awarded for IngenioSpec eyeware patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $3,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by IngenioSpec LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to smart eyewear. They have been asserted against Samsung, Bose Corporation, Sony, and LG.

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.

US 11762224 - Eyewear with Electrical Components (claim 27)

Winners - Dinesh Swami & Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 5654786; WO 2002045044

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US 11803069 - Eyewear with Embedded Electrical Components (claim 1)

Winning Submissions: US 3091020; US 2930857; WO 1994009398

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US 11829518 - Head-worn Device with Connection Region (claim 1)

Winner - Huang Chien-Cheng

Winning Submissions: WO 1994009398; US 7755975; US 20140043740

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$6,000 for Polaris Innovations memory patents prior art

Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Polaris Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Owlpoint IP Opportunities JVF I LP. The patents generally relate to various semiconductor memory technologies. The patents have been asserted against Qualcomm.

The contests will expire on April 30, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests.

US 7184339 - Semiconductor Memory Testing

US 7499371 - Semiconductor Memory System

US 8117526 - Data Bus Inversion

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Auth Token, authentication 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 8,375,212, owned and asserted by Auth Token LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '212 patent describes an authentication token system utilizing smart card technology for secure access control. It has been asserted against in over 45 district cases but most recently against Ally Financial.

The contest will expire on April 19, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.