On March 17, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a nonprecedential opinion in Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC, affirming a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in IPR2016-01643 that held several challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,775,745 unpatentable. The '745 patent generally relates to a method of caching data on a computer, and has been asserted years prior, though the case is stayed. 

On appeal, Intellectual Ventures argued that the Board misconstrued several claim limitations of the '745 patent. The Court disagreed, finding that the Board's construction was reasonable, and affirming unpatentability.

Unified was represented by Peter Ayers in the appeal, and Finnegan in the IPR. Unified was also represented by in-house counsel Jonathan Stroud and Roshan Mansinghani in these proceedings. The opinion also affirmed an unrelated IPR filed by Dell EMC, Lenovo, and NetApp.