On July 22, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Uniloc 2017 LLC, holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,020,252 unpatentable. Each claim was invalidated on two different grounds. The ‘252 patent is owned and asserted by well-known NPE, Uniloc 2017 LLC. The ’252 patent, directed to a “communal recording system” that restricts access to recorded audio messages to subsequent users, has been asserted against Apple, Microsoft, and Hike in district court.

Unified was represented by Finnegan and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani, Jessica Marks, and Jonathan Stroud, in this proceeding. View district court litigation for the ‘252 patent. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.