On June 30, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,311,073, owned and asserted by MasterObjects, Inc., an NPE. The ‘073 patent is directed to partial search technology, including asynchronous retrieval of information from a database. MasterObjects has filed suit involving the '073 patents and others against several companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and eBay.

View district court litigation by MasterObjects. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Trenton Ward and Gracie Mills from Finnegan and Unified’s in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding.