On August 13, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. American Patents, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,373,655 unpatentable. The ’655 patent, directed to a method for control of access to network resources, has been asserted in multiple district court cases against such companies as TCL, LG, Samsung, Sharp, Acer, Huawei and others.

The final written decision also included a thorough analysis related to real party-in-interest (RPI) and rejected Patent Owner's argument that a Unified member should have been named as an RPI in this proceeding. This was one in a series of decisions that have consistently found Unified to be the sole RPI.

Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jonathan Stroud, in this proceeding. View American Patent’s district court litigation here. To read the public version of this decision and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.