Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,292,743, U.S. Patent 8,898,003, and U.S. Patent 10,107,628, all owned by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The patents generally relate to navigation systems. The patents have been asserted against Toyota, BMW, and Honda. The contests will expire on January 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below. US 6292743 - Mobile Navigation System (litigations) US 8898003 - GPS-based Navigation System US 10107628 - Navigating on Artist ..read more

On November 28, 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 2805491, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The ‘491 patent is generally directed to video coding using parallel processing. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance patent pool. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. Unified was represented by Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani ..read more

Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Mimzi LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to systems for recording audio conversations. The patents have been asserted against Foursquare, TripAdvisor, HTC, Acer, ASUSTek, and Samsung. The contests will expire on January 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below. US 11086929 - Photographic Memory (litigations) US 11308156 - Photographic Memory (litigations) US 11100163 - Photographic Memory (litigations) US 979 ..read more

On November 27, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,948,488, owned by Neo Wireless, LLC, an NPE and Fortress IP entity. The '488 patent generally relates to transmitting probing signals in a wireless communication system employing OFDM, where multi-carrier signals and spread spectrum signals are overlaid together in both time and frequency domains. This reexamination challenge is part of Unified’s 3GPP zone. The '488 patent has not been asserted in litigation before, but related family members have been asserted against Mercedes-Benz, FCA ..read more

Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,682,558, U.S. Patent 8,954,251, and U.S. Patent 10,391,989, all owned by Vision Works IP, an NPE. The patents generally relate to acceleration sensors for use within moving vehicles. The patent has been asserted against Polaris, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz. The contests will expire on January 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below. US 8682558 - Acceleration Sensor for Use Within Moving Vehicles (litigations) US 8954251 ..read more

On November 20, 2023, two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,058,040, owned and asserted by Fleet Connect Solutions, LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP. The ‘040 patent generally relates to minimizing RF channel interference in a device where two RF standards operate in the same frequency bands. The patent is being asserted against devices that have the ability to communicate using LTE, 802.11, or Bluetooth. Companies ..read more

On November 22, 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 3402195. The EP ‘195 patent is currently owned by Ideahub Inc. but was previously owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The EP ‘195 patent involves improving the efficiency of encoding and decoding methods with particular reference to determining quantization parameters for encoding and decoding object blocks such that the quantization parameters are adaptively set according to prevailing or neighboring conditions. It is related to patents that have been declared e ..read more

On November 24, 2023, less than a month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,854,207, owned and asserted by SOTAT, LLC, an NPE. The ‘207 patent relates to a mobile surveillance system that connects to a mobile device and has been asserted against twelve defendants, including Canary Connect, HeathCo, Wyze Labs, Adobe Systems, Vivint, and Resideo. View district court litigations by SOTAT. Unified is represented by in-house co ..read more

On November 21, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,291,243, owned by Graphite Charging Company LLC, an NPE. The ‘243 patent relates to an adaptive power supply system and has been asserted against Tesla. View district court litigation by Graphite Charging. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding ..read more

Unified Patents and The Brattle Group, a renowned group of economists and damages experts, announced its economic report on the reasonable and non-discriminatory (“RAND”) licensing value of patents essential to the Wi-Fi standard (“Standard Essential Patents” or “SEPs”). The full report is available exclusively to members of Unified Patents’ Wi-Fi Zone, which includes access to Unified’s ML-based objective patent landscaping analytics (“OPAL”) and indexed IEEE standardization technical submissions repository (“OPEN”). Brattle calculated the range of reasonable and non-discriminatory (“RAND”) r ..read more