Sound View patent challenged

On August 3, 2020, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,426,715, owned and asserted by Sound View Innovations, LLC. The request was filed in an effort to protect Open Source technologies from invalid NPE assertions. The ’715 patent generally relates to shutting down a plurality of software components in an ordered sequence. Sound View recently asserted this patent against Walmart, Vudu, and Delta Air Lines.

View district court litigations by Sound View. Read the request below. Unified is represented by Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,558, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

§ REQUEST FOR EX PARTE § REEXAMINATIONU.S. Patent No. 7,426,715 § § Attorney Docket No.: 50348.48Filed: June 14, 2004 § § Customer No.: 27683Issued: September 16, 2008 § § Proceeding No.: to be assignedTitle: SHUTTING DOWN A PLURALITY OF §SOFTWARE COMPONENTS IN AN §ORDERED SEQUENCE § Hon. Commissioner for PatentsP.O.