On October 1, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,756,507, owned by Monarch Networking Solutions LLC, an NPE and an Acacia Research entity. The ‘507 patent is generally directed to device-based dual-factor authentication using one-time passwords. The ‘507 patent is currently being asserted against Cisco, Meraki, and Duo Security.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking Solutions. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by John Baird, Patrick McPherson, and Paul Belnap of Duane Morris LLP, and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.