On June 24, 2020, the Board issued an order terminating IPR2020-00111 pursuant to a joint settlement request filed by Unified Patents and Cassiopeia IP, an IP Edge affiliate and well-known NPE. U.S. Patent 7,322,046, generally directed to secure use of a network service, has been widely asserted in 18 district court litigations against such companies as Best Buy, Western Digital, Aruba Networks, Epson America, and Funai.

Unified is represented in this proceeding by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, and outside counsel, James Stein from Lee & Hayes, PLLC. View Cassiopeia's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal.