On March 13, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,892,600, owned and asserted by FireNet Technologies, LLC, an IP Investments affiliate and well-known NPE. The ’600 patent, generally directed to a proxy firewall system for protecting devices within a network, has been asserted in 5 district court cases against such companies as Kemp Technologies, Fortinet, and Citrix.

View FireNet’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani in this proceeding.