On July 22, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Pure Data Systems, LLC, holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 5,999,947 unpatentable. The ‘947 patent is owned by Pure Data Systems, LLC, a Dominion Harbor subsidiary and well-known NPE, and is directed to distributing database changes to one or more client computers. The ‘947 patent has been asserted in 16 district court cases against such companies as Electronic Arts, Spotify, CNN, CBS, Pinterest, LinkedIn and others.

Unified was represented by Haynes and Boone and in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding. View all district court litigation involving the ‘947 patent here. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.