On April 29, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,322,046, owned and asserted by Cassiopeia IP LLC, an IP Edge affiliate and well-known NPE.
The ‘046 patent is directed to the secure use of a service in a network. The ’046 patent is currently being asserted against Ricoh, Funai, Yamaha, and QNAP. All other cases have been terminated.
To read the institution decision and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented in this proceeding by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, and outside counsel, Lee & Hayes, PLLC.