On July 29, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. MobilePay LLC, holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,800,706 unpatentable. The ‘706 patent is owned by MobilePay, LLC, an IP Valuation Partners subsidiary and well-known NPE. MobilePay disclaimed some of the challenged claims early in the proceeding, and the Board found the remaining challenged claims unpatentable in the final written decision.

The '706 patent is directed to systems that connect a credit card reader to a mobile phone via the audio port so the mobile phone can be used to transmit credit card data to a cloud service for decoding. The patent has been asserted against PayPal, Bank of America, Mindbody, and Intuit.

View MobilePay's district court litigation.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by White & Case and by in-house counsel, Jessica Marks and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding.