On December 5, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 6,690,400, owned and asserted by Global Equity Management (SA) Pty. Ltd. ("GEMSA"), a well-known NPE. The '400 Patent, directed to a graphical user interface (GUI) displaying graphics representing various partitioned storage devices in a computer, has been asserted in 43 district court cases, 35 of which are currently pending. The following companies are presently involved in litigation over the '400 patent.

Philips, Inc.
AdRoll, Inc.
Artek Surfin Chemicals, Ltd.
Hitachi America
The Nasdaq OMX Group, Inc.
Alcatel-Lucent
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.
Spotify
Zynga
Uber
eBay
Ericsson
Amazon Web Services
AirBNB
Alibaba Group
Alibaba.com

Travelocity
Expedia
PriceLine Group
CruiseShipCenters
Ubisoft
Ticketmaster
SAP America
Hotels.com
Amazon.com
Ticketleap.com
Johnson & Johnson
Zillow
General Electric Company
Netflix
Siemens

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